Emerald City, Seattle, this weekend!

   Emerald City Comic Con is this weekend!  Here are the rest of the sketchcards I'm bringing. 

 The others are here

Saturday March 2nd ONLY!

TABLE K-20 with Steph Laberis!

Also Billie, and what is left of my "Tater Tots" sketchbook

...and since updates might be hard tomorrow with packing and finishing up loose ends...

This might air Saturday.  If not, it's already in the old DC Nation trailer.

Amethyst, Level 6: The Final Boss

Storyboarded by Jay Baker!

Claire Lenth   Character Color Stylist.

Valerie Kung  Background Layouts.

Mari Hosaka Background Painter.

Mary Hoffman  props.

Will this be the end?  DUN DUN DUN!!!

Emerald City Comic Con, 2013

I'll be at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, 

Saturday March 2nd ONLY!

TABLE K-20 

Steph Laberis is letting me crash her table that day.  She will have cute prints and sketchbooks.

I will have what is left of the "Tater Tots" sketchbooks, copies of "Billie the Unicorn", and some original sketchcards for sale.  I will not be taking commissions, sorry!  I'm hoping to get ten more made before ECCC, some of the ones above have already been claimed.

ECCC is pretty cool, glad to be a part of it again!

Pegacorn drawing dump!

Amethyst color styling by Claire Lenth!

Pegacorns poop snowballs and hail. 

Happy Violent Times!

This Saturday!

Amethyst Level 5: Battle in the Stormy Peaks!

Storyboard by Chrissy Delk

Claire Lenth  was the Character Color Stylist.

Valerie Kung drew the Background Layouts.

Mari Hosaka was the Background Painter.

Mary Hoffman drew the props.

Also Happy Valentines to you and your bones.

May you have a chance to sip tea while others run errands for you.

Reminder:  I'll have art in a gallery show this weekend!

"Beam Me Up: Star Trek Tribute" art show taking place at Q Pop store in Los Angeles.

February 16th, 7pm, there will be space surprises and grilled cheese sandwiches! 

Here's the Facebook event page

with the artists list and more.

The Turquoise Cave

Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld

"Level 4: The Turquoise Cave"

This Saturday morning!

Storyboarded by Christie Tseng

Claire Lenth  was the Character Color Stylist.

Valerie Kung drew the Background Layouts.

Mari Hosaka was the Background Painter.

Mary Hoffman drew the props.

Producer/animator/topaz scratch dialogue Ben Jones

Here is the preview that is almost all of the short. YAY!

Topaz is voiced by Keith Ferguson!

Amethyst is voiced by Sophie Oda!

A little sneaky gif

And the pencil test animation for the commercial from last year. This was animated on paper, made from dead trees!

Beam me up!

Spock x Kirk humpback whales!

This is for the "Beam Me Up: Star Trek Tribute" art show taking place at Q Pop store in Los Angeles.

February 16th, 7pm, there will be space surprises and grilled cheese sandwiches! 

Here's the Facebook event page

with the artists list and more.

"Bad Ending, Try Again"
Sketchbook doodle, and trying out the vine app!

If anyone sees the original artwork for this, please know it was stolen.

The post office delivered it, and it was stolen from the doorstop of Amy's voice artist right before Christmas.

I'm hoping they didn't open it expecting to find something expensive, and threw it in the trash,

but if you do see this, please punch that jerk in the face for me.

These take me a bit of time to do, and it was a gift also.

Thanks Christmas Scrooge.

Left Overs

Time for left over and forgotten doodles  

Old cupid girl

"Splinter and his Babies", drawn for the VMAT trade on twitter

Forgotten Harpy drawing found in a sketchbook from a couple of years ago.  This was probably supposed to go in the ECCC 2012 sketchbook.  Oh well.

...and some quickly scanned Space Unicorn sketches. 

At the end of the rainbow, there is a surprise! 

Expression sheets

Random Encounter

Maybe this Saturday morning,

Amethyst Level 3

"Random Encounter"

Storyboarded by Valerie Fletcher

Monster of the week designed by Thomas Perkins

and the same crazy crew doing the rest.

It's always nice to relax after fighting slimes.  

Just realized every DC Short ever made is a random encounter. 

(also no previews released yet, and not really any spoilers here, please don't hit me.)

Village of the Frogs

This Saturday, the second Amethyst short airs on DC Nation.

This one was storyboarded by Chrissy Delk!

BG Layout by Valerie Kung

BG color by Mari Hosaka

Props by Mary Hoffman

Character color by Claire Lenth

Character Designs by Claire and I

Also extra guidance from Ben Jones

For how short these are, design and prep wise we might as well be making a 10 minute episode.

For some reason, I'm still fighting some nasty flu/cold/ebola.  

Here's some left overs from the past month or so.

Harpy

These people.

Onto a sparkling 2013!

Amethyst's VA asked for a drawing. :D

So, THIS might be airing Saturday morning.  Or maybe this post will just jinx everything all over again.  Either way, it's done, and 2013 is only a few hours away.

EDIT:
Looks like it really might air this Saturday? Preview clip online!

The past year was mostly really wonderful, but I also learned what my limits are.  This year I'm going to try to take better care of myself, more sleep, less stress.  There will be new hurdles, some have already presented themselves for better or worse, and it's time to try new approaches and enjoy time with friends and family.  The holiday break was really positive with some much needed downtime.

I miss visiting my friends in Japan this year, but was able to see a cousin, aunts and uncles.

My Mom surprised me with a handmade pegacorn for Christmas.  While she was finishing his details,  I tried sewing with some of the extra felt.  It was nice turning my brain off with these weird little guys.  

The pegacorn is really squishy, I'm not very good at taking photos of him, but he's really cute in person!

Lady Turquoise and her bat tiger

Princesses Emerald

Some Space Unicorn

Space Unicorn gifs exported from Flash.  Didn't retain the timing, oh well.

Little Christmas doodles for cards and while being with family.

May 2013 be filled with exciting and surprising mysteries!