big hair

An attempt to draw in photoshop. Totally overwhelmed with creating new brushes, layers and layers of opacity and trying to pick the right colors. 

Seriously. Why is the artz so hard?

And why does she have a giant beehive? 

Some questions can not be answered.

(Ryan pointed out that she looks like Beavis. And indeed she does. If Beavis was a fancy lady.)

Victorians

I love living in San Francisco and my neighborhood in particular. During some of my many walks with Al around this part of the city, I found and drew these houses-- on the back of cereal boxes, then cut them out to decorate the wall above her crib. 

The idea was to make a whole city of cute houses to decorate all her walls. We'll see if that ever happens.

My latest creation

It's been a long time, old blog. I've moved, got hitched, my old dog passed away and I HAD A BABY! Yup. I created a new freaking life. Which is unbelievable and stressful and amazing and all-around great. She just turned one year old and is currently taking a nap, so I have time to write a quick post!

This is my little monster, Alex.

I love her to bits! But I have to admit that having and raising a baby, not to mention earning more money to pay the bills has really put a damper on my creative pursuits. I want to spend every waking minute with this little person, which doesn't leave a lot of time for rigging, screenprinting or even drawing. But I will post some of the very few projects I've managed to churn out.

This, however, has been my most important creation so far. 

tongue test

I know. 

This looks really weird. And kind of suggestive. 

But with some help from my new friend Sam, I was able to get Iana's face model retopologized and get some jaw and tongue joints in there. Now I've got to work on some blendshapes and controls. Long way to go, but I thought I'd share my latest weirdness.

sunbeams

undiagnosed ADD

Gooooooooood lorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd.

For the life of me, I can't focus on anything right now. I'm just trying to finish one rig, but I keep getting distracted by the thought of veggies going bad in the fridge. Delicious veggies, here I come to cook you!

Then I'll have to take the compost out to the garden, obviously. While I'm out there, I should probably do a little weeding so my neighbor doesn't get irritated and push weeds under the fence again. Oh, and I can do some laundry. And I should sweep the stairs. Maybe I should go on Pinterest. Then I'll take Zoe for a walk. Do yoga. Make some tea. Oh look! It's dinner time! Let's go cook some more veggies. And so it continues.

WHYYYY? 

I finally sit down to rig and now I'm looking at my notes and finding three different ways to make IK/FK switches and I'm totally paralyzed trying to figure out which one I want to use. URG. Clearly that means it's time to write a semi-sane blog post. 

Yes.

Back from Brazil!

I made it back from Brazil unscathed! Except for losing my camera in a cab and getting the most mosquito bites I've ever had in my life. Those Amazonian bugs aren't kidding around. They bite you THROUGH your clothes. And layers of DEET. The little bastards.

So thanks to my absetmindedness, I now have no pictures of the lightning storms over the Amazon, the piranhas we caught, the tree climb over the Rio Negro, the streets of Salvador, the surfers and the crabs in Itacare or the big Jesus in Rio.

But I did get a pretty sweet pair of neon Havaianas while I was there.

Unfortunately, while I was gone Zoe was staying with my parents and she had some abandonment issues, which led her to start biting her back leg. To get her to leave it alone, we've instituted the cone of shame. But to give her a break from smashing the cone into all the walls, I fashioned her a sumo wrestler diaper out of a t-shirt. So this is currently what my dog looks like:

Now that I'm back, I finally got a chance to go to the drop-in life drawing class at the Mission Cultural Center last night. It was strange, but fun. The "teacher" (maybe she was just the facilitator?) didn't even acknowledge people as they came in and the music she put on was some bluesy song about not eating yellow snow... um... sure. It's only $8 for two hours of drawing a live model. Hopefully I'll start going more often.