Cats and Mice and Bats oh my

I have been drawing a lot of cats lately.

I only have one to show but cats were a thing for a few weeks.

Although you can't see it all that well, the gold was done in a gold marker and it's pretty shiny. I couldn't get a picture to show it off but trust me it's shiny and it's awesome.

Also a bat in puffy pants!

Also a presketch cause I like it:

Poor bats, wearing clothes is very hard for you little dudes.

~Mo

The year of children's books

Starting next month, I have things planned to work on stories! Last year was comics and this year is Children's stories which will hopefully end in at least the Halloween story I will have up on Halloween! Yay! But between then and now, lots of the little things!

Character studies, portfolio updates, maybe even some test pages!

Should be a lot of fun this year!

I will posting a lot of before sketches and studies and all that fun jazz to keep this blog going so it'll probably be updated every other week as this year goes.

I'll probably update links too.

But for the time being has a little character from the first story I am focusing on!

Goliath and the Knight!

I've started using Acrylic Markers lately and those are fun man!

~Mo

Sketch_Dailies theme today was Kumiho! A nine tailed fox who eats hearts (or livers).

Also cause it's silly to me (and I will probably show more of this stuff)

Planning! Really tiny planning.

I'll be back with more news in the next few weeks!

~Mo

Been a while AGAIN

Like always I disappear from here time to time.

But I have been drawing.

A lot.

I have joined Inktober this year and am doing so much better than last year even with some lazy feet drawings and such.

YOU CAN FIND THEM HERE AS OCTOBER GOES ON

Is updating almost everyday with fun inking stuff which is mostly done in nibs and ink!

Here are a few of my characters from the ghost story wooooooo (for Halloween):

Playing with watercolor pencils in this one along with the ink.

This one was fun.

And SNAKE TIME

with special guest, Crowley the ball python

The dork who likes to steal the glasses off my face!

I'm not sure when I will be posting again probably not until next month but be assured! I will be working writing some stories next month.

I hope to have a lot of things coming together in next few months so look out for them!

~Mo

Painting

Hi it's been awhile. 

Been playing around with different ideas and painting:

Trying to figure out the best colors for ghosts when painting and so far I like this version. The other two paintings didn't come out like I hoped but I need to learn when to stop adding paint. 

~Mo

Costumes

I have been busy busy with getting a job the last two weeks.

So I will be busy busy all summer if this summer goes how I think it will.

BUT

I will still be working on this story because I have finally figured out the best ending for it!

So I will mostly be writing all summer with a few drafts and color samples.

Also Conventions. I am hoping to be at least two this year.

I'll try and update every other week with something.

~Mo

TinTin

Finally watched that TinTin movie and I liked it.

Quite a bit.

I watched it twice back to back.

I don't want to give it back to the library.

From stories of old

Drawing mice have become my calming method so that's what I have been doing:

Kind of based off Rapunzel. Not really sure though.

The song's 'But not for me.' 

Don't really have a version in mind but I like the Kids on the Slope version.

Maybe I should make a band of mice. Would be good to draw some instruments. 

Just random. Nothing really in mind for these two.

Working Mice

I don't really have anything for Valentines Day so have a drawing of mice sewing that I drew at the library today on V-Day.

I'm thinking of inking this later.

~Mo.

I'm so sorry brother.

All I draw is mice and hair so drawing out some possibly storylines of The Girl in the Drawing is good for a quick lose exercise.

Ghost can't really cry so I have to make it look like she is without the tears.

Have some color practice for White Coal:

Have a nice Year of the Snake.

~Mo

Happy Accident

Don't you just love happy accidents?

Since everything I do right now is all mice, I try not to do much of anything else until I have this mouse project done. Of course I do a few things here and there because I need to test out things so I was playing with what colors I should use for David.

Didn't turn out too bad.

Now excuse me. I have a few things to work out.

But before that!!

There's a chance I will be turning to get a table at cons with friends.

I'll tell ya if anything works out.

~Mo

Hi ya!

Computer's alright, but not much to say after that. 

Got a lot to do and I need to stop slacking.

Haven't really drawn Am in a while (okay that's a lie, but I drew her in a way that if the story was horror-ish. It doesn't count.)

Been working on another project so her story has been pushed aside.

And since not too much will be shown have a little practice comic I'm playing with because I got my watercolor brush. Based off the project I'm working on for the next few months.

See ya~!

Mo

Crowning the Mouse King

It's 2013! A new year! Year of the snake too!

But yes, yes, time to draw mice.

Actually done ink pencil and ink first:

Then played around with random brushes in photoshop.

I still need to play around with the background but I like it so far.

~Mo

End tof the world?

I'll just watch Sherlock Holmes through it.

I started yesterday to just watch all the versions of Sherlock holmes I have which is a lot but not nearly enough if you ask me.

While watching 'The Great Mouse Detective' I drew myself in it and I'm just that annoying fan from across the ocean. Modern day ish.

Also BBC Sherlock:

After my daily Doctor Who watch, I'll be watching more Sherlock Holmes versions.

You're a terrible Damsel in Distress.

After Mitch realized Am is not a good Damsel in Distress, he decided she was a better assistant knight to save the Teddy Bear Princess Candy from the dragon. Now they defend the Stuffy Kingdom from dragons and other creatures of legend.

Also more solid pictures of Am's brother, David:

Designs are finally coming together how I like them. Need to do some more test colors and go from there.

Jack Frost

I quite like Rise of the Guardians and hope to watch it again. It really doesn't deserve the low box office stats.

But anyway, I'm drawing things for our Christmas palm tree again this year and even though North and Baby Tooth are my favorite from the movie, we don't have anything Jack Frost related around the house. So much Santa Clause and snowmen.

And I do like Jack Frost's design.

Now I need a printer that prints color.

Mitchell and Amelia

Say hello to Mitch and Ame (and Mr. Wobbles)! Main characters to my story 'The Girl in the Drawing!'

Haven't really used markers in awhile so why not? I have free time might as well play around with clothing and colors.

Now I'm gonna storyboard a few things.

1920s Lazytown

Can I say I loved Lazytown since it first aired in 2004? Since I was a wee teenage, I decided to watch the first episode the day it aired and fell in love with the characters and songs. Got excited when they came to Sesame Place (worked there for a few years) and wanting it to never end. (so excited for the new stuff)

So years later while watching it, I decided it would be a good thing to see what happens if I put the characters in the 1920s.

So today while watching it, the idea came back and I went with it.

The story goes as follows:

Sportacus is a runaway circus clown from Robbie Rotten's circus. Sportacus got bored and saw some kids trying to inmate him so he decided to help the kids learn to do the tricks themselves. Now he plays an endless game of hide-and-seek from Robbie while teaching the kids circus acts.

Need to get better at drawing Robbie.

Blimp right now it a giant giant, I'll probably draw him smaller if and when I draw him again.

Hope ya enjoyed! 

~Mo.

Goliath and the kid

The other day I had this great crazy dream. It was silly and like most dreams, didn't make much sense once I woke up. Yu-gi-oh card battles, churches showing weird animes, and this little story about a giant taking care of a little kid who actually isn't a little kid but changed into one with magic!

So I'm taking that last idea and making it into something:

Basic drawings of the two based off my dream. The little kid tried to eat the umbrella but when the giant (named him Goliath) tried to take it from him, the kid wouldn't let it go.

The story is a basic one. A knight and Goliath are fighting, one to gain the role as ruler of a small kingdom and the other protecting it. While the fight goes on, a witch is walking by. Annoyed by this display of roughness, she attacks them and although Goliath gets away unharmed, the witch casts a spell on the knight. The spell changes the knight into a small child.

The child confused by what's happening, starts crying as the witch slips away laughing at her work.

Now Goliath needs to figure out what to do with the knight who doesn't even know who he is.

It is a silly tale. And I really just wanted to draw a little kid who wears shirts too big for him and wants to eat everything:

~Mo.

CandyCanes

Well it's Christmas time and one of my favorite things in the world is candycanes. So much in fact that in high-school I made a character called the CandyCane fairy and went around giving people candycanes. In college, I did the same thing, but kept a candycane or two on my person at all times.

Seems silly, but they are the best candy.

Also it's good tea. Candycane tea is very good tea. Can't drink or eat anything candycane though until after Thanksgiving. That's my rule.

I also like drawing the candycane fairy as a grumpy old man as long with a happy little magic kid.

You'll be seeing more of him as Christmas draws near!

~Mo