haircuts and joy

It may be short, but I drew and colored this baby in an evening!
And then on Saturday I finally got a haircut. THANK GOODNESS. It really does drive me crazy when it gets to be too long.
I don't know if it's because I'm so thoroughly consumed by nerd culture, but I feel like a lot of people will get the Harry Potter reference. Maybe.
Also I need to work on hands- so I have been practicing them in my sketchbook.
The helping hand in this picture may be the hand of god...or a goddess....or Hagrid...?

I'm having a harder time than I'd like getting started on my long term project. It may have something to do with how big it really is, but I was able to get a few potential panels down the other night. Hopefully this continues!

Trying to figure out also a solid schedule for this blog, as to when I will be posting. Maybe Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays? We shall see.

In the next few minutes I'll be off to pick someone up from the airport! Very excited 8D
Until next time!

Hey! It's Friday! Thank goodness! Have a comic.

Based on true life events.
Happy Friday! I'm ready for the weekend- gonna get some (more) work done!
Thanks for stopping by <3

Life in color and productivity

Ooooo~ it's in color~~
Welcome back!
This piece was started back in the winter when I was taking some classes and we had to do a still life- and the mannequin featured here really stood out to me and gave me the idea for this. Just recently I finished drawing it and inking and coloring it. With watercolor pencil and marker. I'm still finding my way around coloring, but practice makes perfect so I'ma keep trying it out!

It's been a very mixed week. Work has been going well, it's everything else that seems to be causing any real anxiety. Some of this anxiety was relieved today when I asked Jon about how he does his thumbnailing- cause I know it needs to be done, I've just never gotten a method figured out.  It makes a lot of sense, now. So I can finally start thumbnailing THE BIG LONG TERM PROJECT (ooooOOOOOooooo) I think I will start that tomorrow if I have time in between going to the doctor and seeing my family for a little bit!

Today I started a short comic that I plan on finishing before the night is over! AND I even made and edited my LGBTv video today O_O Yay productivity! I'm diggin' it.
Time to go finish that comic :)
Thanks for reading! Here's a sketchbook piece:

This feels like the first page in a new sketchbook

Well hello! Welcome to my brand new blog! I'm Audrey,  Thanks for stopping in :)

Artists may understand best what I mean when I refer to this feeling like the FIRST page in a NEW sketchbook. The excitement to start another chapter in your work, the anxiety that the first drawing will set the tone for the rest of the sketchbook, wondering about what kind of things you will create in an unexplored land expansive, plentiful paper hillsides, and unexpected storms of pencil and ink and sometimes even watercolor. In this place, it snows eraser shavings.

...as you can see I take this matter very seriously and sometimes it leads to me leaving the first page blank forever.

But no more!
I'm diving in, head first. Let's do this.

Right now I do most of my work in my sketchbook, so I will be posting primarily from there. However! I am starting a more long term project, and I have just started planning and the thumbnailing is about to begin- so I may post progress on that as well, particularly when I've really gotten into it and have some pages to show. WOO!
Gonna start things off with a comic- because I love comics. SO MUCH. I even have tshirts about how much I love them (oh the dedication) AND, I'm a comic artist, dang it!

Based on a true story. Definitely a monologue comic, but when the idea to make this a comic came to me, I had to get it out RIGHT AWAY. And thus, this was born. I'd like to redraw it on nice paper and ink and color it. Maybe that will be my next project.
Aaaaand because its the first post, I will leave you with another art.
Thanks for reading, I plan on posting again tomorrow! :D
Peace and Love~
(I have dreams of looking just like this XD)