Marji's Drawrin' Blog

Peachy Gleam

2011-07-14T14:27:00.001-07:00

My friend Cari made a MLP:FIM fan character, Peachy Gleam! She's so darling! I had to have a hand at her with my Copic markers. I looooove Copics so much @__@

good job, chicken

2010-10-21T12:13:00.000-07:00

I hired this chicken to help me with lip sync. She works for corn and does a very good job.''

HEDA! HEDO!

2010-10-19T09:27:00.001-07:00

UHM I really like Wagner and I really like this one piece and I really like drawing cats. Everyone says he looks like Stewie from Family Guy, oh well.

FISH HOOKS!!!

2010-10-18T20:36:00.003-07:00

I just found out about this AWESOME show! Go Disney with yo bad self! Go find this and watch it IMMEDIATELY!

Nesting dolls

2010-10-16T18:03:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine got me into painting these guys. These are part of a set, the ones that came out the best. The bird is by far my favorite! I want to do a whole set of just birds :D

PUPPY SEE PIZZA

2010-10-15T09:32:00.000-07:00

made this quick animated gif for a friend!

mangent la brioche!

2010-10-14T20:15:00.001-07:00

This time the theme was Marie Antoinette! So floofy! Also I found out she actually DIDN'T say "let them eat cake." But I include the quote here anyway cause why not.
Dagny's is amazing also CHECK OUT THIS DOG

K Pain

2010-10-13T21:09:00.000-07:00

He was the pimp mack daddeh of his day. Dagny went so far as to animate him!
Also, she mentions King Henry as a Tamagotchi and I just lost it. Had to I HAD TO:

Shark guy and Mr. Bulbinous

2010-10-10T13:03:00.000-07:00

Was looking through my old sketchbook and found this guy. Soooo adorable! He just wants to play! And CHEW.

And now, a Coelacanth in a bowler. I've named him Mr. Bulbinous.

Rhinemaiden

2010-10-08T10:11:00.000-07:00

Drawn at lunch because I am FAR TOO EXCITED about seeing Das Rheingold tomorrow!

2010-10-08T05:53:00.000-07:00

An icon I made for a friend of mine. REACH FOR THE STARS....and eat them.

updates and Kingdoms of Camelot fanart

2010-10-07T18:15:00.000-07:00

I am cleaning this blog up, it's SHAMEFUL the kind of art I've allowed in here! PFFFTTT!!!!! Makes me wanna JUST.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCNICT2en_U&feature=player_embedded

in other news, I just found out about this game and I've been into Arthurian stories so I am giving it a shot IT IS MY FIRST FACEBOOK GAME. Dagny is all up ons too, WE WILL RULE TOGETHER WITH AN IRON FIST....TWO iron fists.....
p.s. the character designs are Kingdoms of Camelot's THESE ARE OUR AVATARS ON THE GAME I JUST HAD TO DRAW THEM nnnnnghhhh

...two sexy fists of womanly wiles.

Soup2Nuts Coffee Mug how do I love thee

2010-02-16T09:35:00.001-08:00

Let me count the ways...

HOURLY COMICS!

2010-02-01T07:43:00.001-08:00

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2:00 PM12:00-1:00 PM11:00 AM

Well, here goes nothing! Updates hourly and more info on Hourly Comic Day here: http://www.hourlycomic.com/hourlycomicday.html

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Lunch Drawins

2009-10-15T10:51:00.000-07:00

A couple of us at work decided to quit being babies and DRAW AT LUNCH cause some of us (*KOFF* me *KOFF*) have not been drawing enough lately...so here is Lady Chunks, doing what she does best:

Squanda for Alex

2009-10-08T12:15:00.000-07:00

My friend Alex loves squids and pandas so I made her some desk flair. Cause, when you love someone, you are willing to genetically combine two incompatible animals to horrific results:

Little April Showers

2009-10-05T12:05:00.001-07:00

Friend of mine at work has these adorable tiny plants in a minuscule pot so I had to animate them:

2009-09-29T05:54:00.000-07:00

Some rando-sketches from work. That last one is a tribute to Kate Beaton's genius comics.

Coleen

2007-12-27T21:33:00.001-08:00

I'm so ridiculously proud of this, considering it's a horrible beginner attempt at inking. I did this with a brush tho and it was SO MUCH FUN!!! It started out super awkward and then it got much easier by the end of the page. I still feel I have no proper control of the brush but hey I like how it started! Hooray!!

This is the first page for a comic project I'm doing for Justin's zine....ooooh online preview! Check the whole thing out when it comes out...it's gonna be swell!

Bento!

2007-11-09T06:27:00.000-08:00

So I've officially become obsessed with bento! I am broke right now so I can't go all-out yet but I've been practicing making bentos for myself and my boyfriend. Here's some pictures. Sorry about the quality, they're phone camera pictures.
I found a lot of inspiration at www.cookingcute.com If you don't know what bento is, check it out on wikipedia but cooking cute is a good place to check out some homemade examples.
I got the container at Target for $4, which is great til I can afford an actual Japanese-style bento box.
Yay for bento!

doodles- mad kitty

2007-06-18T15:18:00.000-07:00

doodles

Sullen Girl

2007-06-11T20:22:00.001-07:00

Yay I love Sketchbook! Behold, color sketchiness! Yeah, hope to finish this and really make it shine eventually.

~marji

Spacebabe

2007-06-05T07:28:00.000-07:00

Dagny and I are at it again...here's a work in progress of SPACEBABE ZOOKEEPER! WHAO!

~marji

Cruella de Vil

2007-05-29T06:54:00.000-07:00

Dagny and I were doing a sketch challenge and I started to color her. Hopefully I can finish it I really like it. We were doing Disney pinups. She did a magnificent job on Yzma, check it out!

~marji

Superhero pirate

2007-05-24T11:24:00.001-07:00

Super hero Pirate art challenge at work randomly...she's more superhero than pirate tho...oh well

~marji

Red Panda goodness

2007-04-11T14:09:00.000-07:00

Red panda! Check out the color version on deviantart it's BEYOOOTIFUL (if i do say so myself).

~marji

Boozer Doodle THE FIRST!

2007-04-03T21:03:00.000-07:00

Well the first ever Vortex Boozer Doodle was a rousing success! Our lovely model was dressed as Marie Antoinette, so plenty of flounces and ribbons and ridiculous wiggery! For those of you who missed it you shouldn't have. But there's another one in a month so look out for it! Here's a few of the sketches i thought turned out okay and also the WINNER of the final drawing contest (the winged marie)! Wooo!

{EDIT 04/09/07} There's some pics up now! Check em out at: The Vortex Boozer Doodle gallery

~marji

IRS

2007-03-19T18:48:00.000-07:00

On the phone with the IRS trying to straighten out a few things. Drew this while I was on hold. I like that he's saying "WARG" over and over again.

~marji

The Crane Wife revisited

2007-03-01T10:50:00.000-08:00

My submission for Art Jumble this week. Another Crane Wife piece. Yes I'm obsessed, why do you ask? Inspired by the line

Now I helped her

And I dressed her wounds

And how I held her

Beneath the rising moon

And she stood to fly

And she stood to fly away

Wish i had more time to color it. Maybe later. Got a crazy-insane insane-crazy commercial spot coming up so won't have much time for ANYTHING. But hey I had a FAB birthday yesterday so it's all good!

~marji

O Valencia

2007-02-28T08:35:00.000-08:00

Here's the linework for a bit of Decemberists fanart. The colored piece is up on my deviantart page so check it out :D This video is deliciously creepy and beautifully pathetic. Check it out here: link
~marji

Maria Paz

2007-01-31T19:21:00.000-08:00

My roommate is from Chile and doing an internship here with CNN. She very kindly bought me some coffee tonight so while we were at the coffeeshop I sketched her out as a reporter.

~marji

Duck no!

2007-01-24T09:21:00.000-08:00

Harriss at work had sent me a video about Mandarin Ducks and today I sent him a clip about a prehistoric shark they have footage of on cnn.com. One thing led to another.....

~marji

Cintiq Scaffolds

2007-01-15T10:35:00.000-08:00

Conversation at work with Joe about how we got these new screens and we used to work on these tiny ones...and how we should start getting really huge with them this coming year....to the point where...well you see the picture.

~marji

Yay for life drawing!

2006-12-14T20:15:00.000-08:00

Oh man FINALLY! Work's been so impossibly busy lately I haven't been to a life drawing session in months. I missed it. And it missed me too, apparently. It held a grudge in fact! It'll take a little bit to get my rusty drawin' skills back into shape. This is what I get for drawing cartoons instead of real life 8 hours a day ;)

Anyway here's some of the less heinous examples of what happened. Combination of white gel pen, brush pen and copic markers.

~marji

Clay cat

2006-12-11T18:12:00.000-08:00

This was a complete accident but doesn't it look like the cat was glazed and baked in a kiln? Minus the pain and burning of course.

~marji

New blog

2006-12-11T08:20:00.000-08:00

Here's some sketching I was doing at work one day while waiting on stuff. ALSO! and more importantly! Please go check THIS out ---> http://cloudypool.blogspot.com/

This is a ridiculously talented artists that I watch on Deviant Art. I just found out she has a blog too (happiness abounding!). I promise you'll enjoy it so check it out :)

~marji

Zoo sketches

2006-11-25T22:23:00.000-08:00

Some sketches from when I went to the zoo. I really like it there and I got a lot of drawerin done. And I fell in love with the red panda!

~marji

COPICS!

2006-11-25T19:10:00.000-08:00

I *luuuurve* my new copics. I've had to buy them piecemeal but it's worth the cost. They;re so beauuuuutiful.

~marji

The Perfect Crime

2006-11-02T19:16:00.000-08:00

Another Decemberists-inspired sketch. The going is slow. Doodling while exporting scenes.

~marji

Beefalo!

2006-10-30T20:01:00.000-08:00

Went to Ted's with Jay (it's tradition) and we started drawing bison-like creatures. And apparently an elephant? Heffalump? It's cute whatever it is ^ ^

I like restaurants that have drawing optional tables.

~marji

The Crane Wife

2006-10-27T12:32:00.000-07:00

Decemberists have a new album. Yay for cranes!

~marji

Critter

2006-10-13T20:00:00.000-07:00

Had to wind down after a long night of animating. Here's what popped out of my stylus.

~marji

Merman

2006-10-12T19:43:00.000-07:00

Maybe it's all thgis Little Mermaid I've been watching but I wanted to draw a man and horse and somehow they turned....kind of watery looking. Would like to color this in marker but so far I only have two copics so until my collection grows a bit, ah well.

~marji

Fakir

2006-10-10T07:12:00.000-07:00

Drew this last night, a doodle before heading home. Been crazy at work so I haven't been doing much. BAD MARJI!

~marji

Wondercat

2006-08-16T01:07:00.000-07:00

Ugh, my scanner gets worse and worse! But here's a WIP of a comic page featuring my long-dead character Wondercat!

~marji

What I see

2006-08-09T14:32:00.000-07:00

This is what I see at work everyday.

~marji

Jay rocks out

2006-07-27T07:08:00.000-07:00

A sketchy of the most hardcore metal person I know. Rock out Jay, rock out >.< \m/

~marji

Faerie Tale

2006-07-26T14:38:00.000-07:00

I have the colored version up on DA but somehow I like it better when it's black and white. Man I have GOT to get one of these cintiqs at home! I felt like drawing a whole comic page based on this image today but of course I had to work ;)

Just was able to grab a few minutes here and there during exports.

This made me think of a combination between snow white and red riding hood hence the title.

~marji

Jumping cats!

2006-07-24T17:16:00.000-07:00

Some kitties I threw down at work when my brain got fried drawing squids. I love the one jumping into the bowl of milk he has such a complacency about it like he does it every day.

~marji

Turtle with a Scimitar

2006-07-21T11:56:00.000-07:00

Based on a conversation at work where I misheard "They should use scimitars" as "They should use centaurs".

~marji

Cello girl

2006-07-20T17:05:00.000-07:00

A doodle I did yesterday while brainstorming for a short I'd like to finish. I'm gonna take her into flash and spruce her up a bit so check out my DA account for that soon!

~marji

Bambi

2006-06-04T07:14:00.000-07:00

I've been baaad, not drawing so much. Saw Bambi II....drew this after I had stopped vomiting.

Oh well what can you do? The animation's getting better. I imagine it's cause the Disney artists who didn't become computer animators are headed to this...this place.

I need to find the original now. I miss it.

~marji

ICO

2006-05-22T09:27:00.000-07:00

I did a sketch of the characters from ICO and now am coloring. But so far I have only done Yorda so here's her head so far. I'm only coloring while doing exports at work so it's going veeeery slowly.

~marji

Shadow of the Colossus

2006-04-09T17:38:00.000-07:00

I'm not much one for gaming but THIS game is FUN. I'm trying to get this bad boy colored then I'll prolly throw it up on my DeviantArt page.

Catnaps

2006-04-04T04:28:00.000-07:00

Cats' will nap ANYWHERE. Just a work doodle. Hopefully will get this to the coloring stage.

~marji

Internet blues

2006-03-26T08:36:00.000-08:00

I had no internet for a while so I wasn't able to upload anything for....let's be honest, quite a while. But I'm *BACK* baby! (Many thanks to Jay for the router! And NOW....a concept page for a movie project that's in the works with a crack group of animators I know and some life drawing stuff. The weird spotted hairy guy was a pose I turned into a centaur. Partly cause I'm short and I can't always see the lower half of the model from the back. But also cause there was a SCAD professor that used to come to life drawing sessions there and do this kind of stuff so I thought I'd give it a shot. I'd like to do somethng with this, maybe color, work it somehow. But for now there it is.

2006-03-02T08:02:00.000-08:00

We're slow at work so I'm playing around on my cintiq. Man I wat one of these at home!

~marji

Work sketches

2006-03-02T04:54:00.000-08:00

Some doodles for the weekend - these jungle beasts inspired the other ones, I drew them a few days ago. I enjoy doodling at work, getting my hands on a real-life pen and real-life paper!

Birthday sketches

2006-02-28T20:41:00.000-08:00

Okay so they're not so birthday themed...but it IS my birthday. Anyway, some sketchery: the girl I did yesterday, just a random little girl. I'm trying to stay away from drawing animals for a bit since I've done it all my life and need to branch out. The sad-lookin kid...I dunno where that came from. I started drawing floopy hair and he happened. I need to color him but FIRST I must find my markers (ack!)

~marji

Girl and jungle beasts

2006-02-27T19:12:00.000-08:00

Here we go, newer stuff!

I am not crazy about some of these animals (I love the lion though!) but this blog is here in order to create a forced sketching slave enviornment for myself! SO here's my nightly offerings!

I do like this girl, but she's very...uh...decent. TOO decent. She's hiding something...in that basket....or in the dog...

~marji

2006-02-27T13:03:00.000-08:00

Bum ba DUUUUM! My sketch blog! Ain't it puuuurdy? Well until i can get home and scan some new images you're all stuck with some oldies. Enjoy!

The top one's a random dog I drew in class one day. And below we have Agent Ruff...another invention. He may or may not be incorporated into a comic universe for which the cat he's saving/strangling is the star.

~marji