Trust No One

The year is off to a busy, bumpy start, so I haven't spent as much time sketching as I'd like to. (I've done plenty of drawing, but it's all for work, and I can't share the fun projects with you guys just yet.) But as I've been recently rewatching one of my favorite TV shows, The X-Files, from the beginning, I found some time to do this quick sketch of Mulder and Scully. 

The truth is out there!

Sometime Around Midnight

Happy New Year everyone! Thank you for all the support in 2012, and you can look forward to lots of exciting new artwork and BIG news announcements in 2013!

Feliz Ano Novo a todos! Obrigada pelo apoio em 2012, e vai ter muito mais arte e boas notícias em 2013!

There and Back Again

With a couple weeks left to go until the release of the first "Hobbit" movie, I'm starting to get excited. For all my fears of it being broken into a trilogy (how many zombies did Peter Jackson shoe-horn into THIS one to stretch it out for three movies?), this is an adaptation of my favorite book of all time, produced by a film cast and crew who made one of my favorite film trilogies of all time, so I'm choosing to go in optimistic. 

"The Lord of the Rings" films, flaws and all, are very near and dear to me. I loved the books, of course, but the films came out at a time when I was in art school, studying to tell stories through my illustrations (at the time, I expected I would go into conceptual design...this was before I realized every illustrator my age wanted that job, and most of them were male and drew the way everyone expected of conceptual designers). And suddenly here was this series of art-rich movies to inspire me. So, it makes sense that as another story of Middle-earth is coming to the big screen, the excitement shows up in my sketchbook. 

(I mean, I'm certainly too old to go to the premiere in costume this time... ;) ) 

Exploding Pens?

It figures the first piece of "Skyfall" art I'd draw wouldn't be of 007 himself, or of a sexy Bond girl...but of the new, skinny, nerdy-hot Q, played by Ben Whishaw. Because we all know I'm a sucker for skinny nerds. 

After the Storm

Just added this new drawing of my favorite X-Man(woman!), Storm, to my Etsy store today. 100% of the sale of this piece will be donated to the Red Cross relief efforts for those affected by Hurricane Sandy. And if the X-Men aren't really your thing, during the entire month of November, I'll donate 15% of all other sales on my Etsy shop as well. 

Please share, repost, and retweet! 

Autumn News

My favorite season is here! Sort of! OK, so it's LA, and fall means it'll be in the low 70s today. But I'll be wearing scarves and boots and drinking pumpkin spice lattes all the same.

Apologies for neglecting the blog in recent weeks. I've had some very, very good news which I can't announce yet, but I can say it's keeping me very busy doing the thing I love most of all.

Please check back here, on Twitter, and on Facebook in the next few days as I will be posting some new artwork for sale on Etsy to raise funds to donate to Hurricane Sandy relief. I have so many good friends on the East Coast (most of them in New York and New Jersey) who are all thankfully OK and many even still have power, but so many people were not nearly so lucky. You guys get fabulous artwork, they get much needed aid. 

Also! As Halloween is over, and it is now officially "Christmas" according to the advertising industry...that means it's gift time, and I am open for taking commissions in the next two months! So if you want to request a custom-made piece of artwork for someone special (or for yourself), now is the time to let me know. Black and white one character sketches are $30, color (markers) is $40-50, add $15 for each additional character. Full illustrations are priced based on complexity so email me with what you want and I can give you an accurate quote. 

Beijos!

O-Ren Ishii

"Now if any of you sons of bitches got anything else to say..."