Ghostgirl's Art Blog

Monster High Pumpkin designs part 2

2011-10-24T21:30:00.000-07:00

Ok, I stayed up too late, but I designed a Ghoulia and a Clawdeen pumpkin template. Next up, actually carving the damn things! (not tonight though, heh)

Monster High Pumpkin designs!

2011-10-24T20:14:00.000-07:00

I'm going to try my hand at carving some artificial pumpkins soon. First I had to draw up my templates. I decided this year to do Monster High Pumpkins. Here is Frankie Stein, and the lovely Draculaura. I'm debating trying a Ghoulia one as well - if I do I'll post it. :)

pumpkin

2011-08-23T19:36:00.000-07:00

Pumpkin with tiny mice.

quick kitty

2011-08-04T20:20:00.001-07:00

I've been looking over vintage halloween decorations, and I love how cute the little black cats are. They remind me of my cat growing up. :) This is my super quick attempt at a vintage looking kitty.

Pin up witch!

2011-08-03T21:59:00.000-07:00

I feel like I need to brush up on classic pin ups.

drawing in progress animation

2011-07-07T20:41:00.000-07:00

My friend Daisy has been doing little sketches on this site called odosketch, I thought I'd give it a whirl.

A little love for my ladies

2011-07-04T12:13:00.000-07:00

I have some severely talented friends who also have art blogs or etsy shops, and wanted to share them with you.

Paigey! - Paigey is a super talented artist who rocks pinup art in a really interesting and unique style that's all her own. I can tell a Paigey! drawing from a mile away. Her etsy store has tons of fun stuff!

Christy! If you've seen cupcake eating batman, you know who she is. She makes adorable geek friendly jewelry (Daleks, zomg.) and has a pretty amazing portfolio ranging from pixel art to cartoon characters in historical settings. She's also currently looking for a company to lend her awesomeness to, so if you're hiring, send her a note!

Daisy! Daisy is an animator who works with a social gaming company Crowdstar (Check out their game Top Girl if you haven't already) who draws prolifically in her spare time! Her blog is chock full of pretty ladies! :D

They all keep me around because I'm the only friend they have whose name doesn't end with a Y. I like to be different.

Nancy from The Craft

2011-07-04T12:06:00.000-07:00

I was watching the Craft for the 678th time, and drew a caricature of the lovely miss Fairuza Balk as Nancy. She's totally why I got a nose ring. <3 her!

Monster girl!

2011-06-23T20:45:00.000-07:00

She-creature from the Black Lagoon :D

I didn't forget I had a blog, I swear.

2011-06-22T20:18:00.000-07:00

Wow, I hadn't realized that I haven't posted here since March. How awkward! To celebrate my awkwardness, here is an old fashioned silhouette portrait of my favorite bride.

New stuff!!

2011-03-15T21:00:00.000-07:00

Hurray, I'm finally listing new stuff. Work has been crazy busy so it's been very slow getting new pieces out. Here's my new Penny Farthing necklace, and I also have an Alice in Wonderland inspired set up on etsy here as well as this cute little bracelet.

I have a couple more victorian inspired pieces that I will be listing soon - well, as soon as I can at least, which might be April at this rate. But hey! Two new things! Go me!

Werk.

2011-02-08T07:21:00.000-08:00

Ooh I can finally show off some of the stuff I've been doing at work, since OXM released some of our screenshots.

I made the plant in the foreground to the left, and the shrubs on either side in the middle of the shot. :D

Happy Valentines Day, baby!

2011-02-07T19:59:00.000-08:00

Many of my dear friends have had babies within the last year, and I thought I would draw something for people to print out for their babies first valentine's day. :)

IT LIIIIIIIVES.

2011-01-29T13:07:00.000-08:00

So I'm not dead. I got super busy with work/not work/illness/etc. Mostly work and illness. I would like to purchase a new immune system, kthnxbye.

While I don't have any drawings to speak of, I did manage to learn how to make fun jewelry. Basically I've always wanted cute spooky jewelry with ravens or magic 8 ball phrases on it, and couldn't find it anywhere. So there you go.

Bride of Frankenstein

2010-10-14T19:56:00.000-07:00

I did a cute and quick little picture of my favorite bride, the Bride of Frankenstein. I always wondered how she'd look with her hair down. :)

Day of the Dead

2010-10-10T19:37:00.000-07:00

I got these totally amazing lights at Target, so I made a cute skeleton listening for his friends in the night.

5 minute cat post

2010-09-30T20:39:00.000-07:00

My favorite part of the day is when my cat jumps on the bed and hides under the covers. Here is a 5 minute cat sketch!

Real love is forever

2010-09-16T19:30:00.000-07:00

Did I ever mention I'm totally obsessed with The Crow? Here's my own interpretation.

Goat girl

2010-09-15T20:26:00.000-07:00

I ran across an unusual amount of articles about Chupacabra today, so I drew a goat girl. Because that makes TOTAL sense.

Mummy!

2010-09-15T19:13:00.000-07:00

I was talking about mummies today, so I drew a cute girl mummy. :D

Whip It

2010-09-13T19:22:00.000-07:00

I finally watched Whip It. What a cute movie. :) I drew a quick little Roller Girl.

Halloween.

2010-09-08T20:29:00.000-07:00

Here is a cute Halloween picture. This is dedicated to Glenn Shadix, who passed away yesterday morning. He is in two of my favorite movies of all time (Beetlejuice and Nightmare Before Christmas), and was by all accounts a wonderful person. Hope you're in a happy place, Mr. Shadix. :)

I have a backlog of things to upload for my previous weeks, but I'm behind because of my new mortal enemy, my back tooth. Now that I'm past the worst of it, it's back to picture-postin'! :D

Iced Chai

2010-07-29T19:39:00.000-07:00

My friend Zack and I were talking the other day on twitter about how my next picture should be about our mutual obsession, Starbucks Iced Grande Non-Fat Chai.

These are their stories. (chunk-chunk)

coffee

2010-07-13T20:47:00.000-07:00

Dr. Sketchy's!

2010-06-29T18:27:00.000-07:00

I finally got to go to my very first Dr. Sketchy's! I went to the bmore one at the Windup Space. I hung out with awesome coworkers and an old college mate, and did the first live figure drawing I've done in ten years! So fun! Our model was Katia B. :)

Rogue

2010-06-27T17:35:00.000-07:00

Quick sketch of Rogue.

Using old comics as fine art.

2010-06-23T21:09:00.000-07:00

And now for something completely different! Instead of a drawing this week, I decided to post about some quick and inexpensive art I made for my house.

All you need are the following:

-an old comic book. I used the first issue of Batman to feature Poison Ivy. It was damaged and

missing pages, so I didn't destroy a priceless heirloom. :D

-frames. Doesn't matter where from. I got these for 60% off at Michaels. Score!

-scrapbook paper with patterns you like

-one of those sticky tape rollers you use for scrapbooking

-scissors, or a matte cutter.

So, it's pretty painless process.

First gather your scrapbook papers and decide which ones you want to use.

Then, cut out panels from the comic book that you love - doesn't matter what size, or how many panels you include, as long as they'll fit in your frames. :D

Then take the inserts out from the frames you just bought - you know, the fake happy couple with the puppy that comes with every frame.

Flip over your scrapbook paper, and on the back of it, mark the edges of the happy couple. Then just

cut on the dotted line.

Flip your scrapbook paper back over. Take the sticky tape roller thingy and cover the back of your comic panel, and then affix it to the scrapbook paper you just cut out right in the middle. The reason I use the awesome sticky tape stuff is because if I suck and put it on crooked, I can just peel it off and reposition it. Even more than once, if you're like me! :D

Then stuff the whole thing in your frame, and OMG ART.

It's easy, relatively inexpensive and you get the fun of having cool and interesting stuff on your walls without much effort! :D

Hope this was vaguely interesting, heh.

Zombie dreamer

2010-06-21T21:05:00.000-07:00

5 minute color sketch! Am failing badly at my drawing a week blog, but will try to catch up!

Punk rock girl

2010-06-03T20:57:00.000-07:00

It's just you and me as we travel 'round the world, it's just you and me, Punk Rock girl.

(as sung by the cupcake.)

Short haired self portrait sketch

2010-05-17T20:45:00.000-07:00

Super crazy quick cartoony self portrait of self with short hair.

prom girl

2010-05-12T20:44:00.000-07:00

peaceful girl

2010-05-08T19:28:00.000-07:00

Phoenix Rising

2010-04-27T19:14:00.000-07:00

Kinda abstracted Phoenix/Jean Grey

Morning Medusa

2010-04-26T21:11:00.001-07:00

It's hard enough to wake myself up in the morning. I can't imagine how long it takes Medusa to wake up each snake.

self portrait two

2010-04-20T20:56:00.000-07:00

Got all my hair chopped off, so I did a new self portrait. :)

girl riding bus at night

2010-04-15T19:48:00.000-07:00

Poison Ivy..again...

2010-04-06T19:35:00.000-07:00

Yet another Poison Ivy sketch. I need to diversify before this becomes a really bad women of gotham fan art blog.

Vampire victim

2010-03-31T19:49:00.000-07:00

I think if you woke up and someone had turned you into a vampire, you'd be pretty sad. And possibly really sexy. But I think sad is more likely, heh.

overwhelmed

2010-03-30T21:09:00.000-07:00

Tried some quick sketches, none of them were working, got frustrated, drew this.

Harley

2010-03-30T20:41:00.000-07:00

Nothing I drew today came out well, so I gave up and drew a pin-up of Harley Quinn. She's like the comfort food of drawing. Even if nothing is going well, I can always draw a cute sketch of Harley.

Ivy

2010-03-23T09:45:00.000-07:00

Quick little sketch of my favorite fictional scientist lady, Miss Poison Ivy.

self portrait

2010-03-16T21:45:00.000-07:00

New self portrait - hadn't done a cute self portrait in awhile.

Day of the Dead tiling background

2010-03-13T20:30:00.000-08:00

I've been having fun working with how to make repeating patterns as a way to train my brain better into what works for a tiling texture. Here's a Day of the Dead tiling pattern I've made:

It's a little too square for my tastes, so I will make a different one soonish. I'm saving these as .pat files in photoshop, so after I make some more of them, I'll put them all up here for other people to play with. :D

Lady Gaga

2010-03-12T19:43:00.000-08:00

I really liked the new Lady Gaga video, so I drew a picture of her in her pretty Crime Scene tape outfit by Brian Lichtenberg.

2010-03-11T19:08:00.000-08:00

Quick catwoman! I have now covered the 3 gotham girls in my blog! :)

angel girl

2010-03-09T20:37:00.000-08:00

All I got today is an angel girl. Not done though, I will probably do more with the background and the cloud. :)

Page of Cups

2010-03-04T19:45:00.000-08:00

I keep wanting to make my own tarot deck, but then I can never decide what style to make one in, so then I just don't. I made a cute quick sketch of a page of cups, which is my card. :D

No hurry or anything.

2010-02-27T20:39:00.001-08:00

Aaaand my sketch for this week. With 20 minutes to spare, even. Take that, sinus infection!

Bat Damask

2010-02-27T18:53:00.000-08:00

I did a photoshop tutorial here, and made myself a lovely damask pattern with crows, roses, hearts and batwings!

I will probably use it for a background for a webpage or a blog or something. I played around with colors and texture as well:

It was a lot of fun to do - I would definitely like to try making more patterns like this :D

A Rose

2010-02-21T20:18:00.001-08:00

Quick sketch of an anthropomorphic rose.

Cheshire kittay :D

2010-02-17T20:58:00.001-08:00

Inspired by TotusMel's Alice in Wonderland post, I wanted to try my hand at a cheshire kitty. I might go back and clean this up/spend more than an hour on it so I can print it out and frame it in a cute antique frame or something.

howard

2010-02-17T20:54:00.000-08:00

The D.C. goth scene lost someone the other day who was really important to pretty much every person who knew him. It's reminded me a lot of the friend I lost, Howard, who I still miss very much.

Mockery of chalk pastels.

2010-02-16T20:42:00.000-08:00

Cute girl on comfy bed - tried going for something that looked kinda chalk pastel lookin' with the photoshop brushes I mentioned in an earlier post.

Werewolves.

2010-02-15T21:21:00.001-08:00

I present to you "werewolf using a computer mouse". Yeah I don't know why, either.

Undead girl

2010-02-10T19:30:00.000-08:00

For valentine's day, an undead cartoon pin-up.

2010-02-08T20:32:00.001-08:00

I drew a little bird (A Junco to be exact.)

Last week didn't go so well, drawingblog wise, so this week I'm going to post two pictures to make up for it. Here's the first for this week!

Sci-Fi. kinda.

2010-01-27T20:15:00.000-08:00

I fail so hard at fantasy/sci-fi creatures, but Mass Effect 2 made me want to try. I made an alien..rat...thing. In a robe. A green robe! Whoo. :D

New Tools

2010-01-21T20:07:00.000-08:00

Christy showed me this really awesome guy's blog who made a few Photoshop tool presets, so I spent tonight playing with my new tool presets. OMG, totally in love - I'm using the pencil sketching one from now on for all of my basic sketching on my tablet - this is the closest I've ever found to really feeling like a pencil! :D

Here are two really quick sketches I made:

Frustrated:

Witchy girl:

Lastly I played around with the watercolor preset he has. I suck at watercolors, so I found these to be very true to the original medium, heh.
Here's a dust bunny:

New holes in my head!

2010-01-19T18:48:00.000-08:00

I finally stretched my ears up to a 6g. They're pretty but are terribly uncomfortable at this moment. They'll get better soon! I drew a quick cartoon of me with my fancypants new earrings.

Tatting

2010-01-18T22:25:00.000-08:00

I'm slowly learning an old needlework process called tatting. It's technique for handcrafting a kind of lace constructed by knots and loops. I wanted to prove to myself that I could pick up a new practice if I tried, and so far, haven't failed miserably! I've progressed from super basic stuff to the 'I almost look like I know what I'm doing' stage. :D

Today I made myself a beaded choker:

doggie!

2010-01-14T19:03:00.000-08:00

Whoo! I made a new banner for my art blog! It took me an hour to choose a font, because I am crazy. (I finally decided that I like Mesquite Standard, if you're curious :D)

I tried sketching the dog, but my husband was kinda blocking her lower half. :)

2010-01-07T20:37:00.000-08:00

Here's a picture I drew tonight of Poison Ivy.

2010-01-07T20:32:00.000-08:00

Okay, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna try to do a drawing every week for my blog. I'll start with two pictures from last year.

And off I go! :D