The Orphaned Brainchildren of Miss Mollie

Nope, don't do this for work.

2009-10-18T12:01:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, if you miss your flight, you can rent a vehicle.

Also, this sketch ate my other sketches.

Here's a naked napoleon.

2009-10-11T19:12:00.001-07:00

and I'm working now...ish. hopefully I can post some stuff from work when i get it cleared.

Digital Shudder

2009-06-12T23:28:00.000-07:00

Now, I want apple pie.

Birth/Caretaker

2009-05-19T18:14:00.001-07:00

The birth of an earth-maker is helped along by a Caretaker, who is chosen to watch over the child as he grows to keep poachers from taking houses too early. The Caretaker is chosen before the birth so the young earthmaker imprints on the Caretaker in the beginning hours of his new life.

Yaaaawwwn

2009-05-03T10:19:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I've been staying up too late too.

Why Doesn't Mollie Update with More Frequency?

2009-04-30T23:59:00.000-07:00

Because I'm re-evaluating things right now. Car accident made my top priority: Not dying.

Anyway, my equilibrium is all thrown to hell, so here's a recent sketchbook page until I get my shit together.

Although there is some good news: I have been asked to be in a gallery show come the end of August/September. Details to follow! Let me know if you want me to put you on the mailing list...I get up to 100 postcards to send.

Cheers. Love me.

From the leaves of an aged journal, found somewhere in the lining of a house, being used as insulation.

2009-04-10T00:52:00.001-07:00

“During a late night conversation with Dr. Collabus, I sensed his concern for the colony of Indian Jeweled Starfish he kept as pets. His fear was that the starfish, being unable to move very quickly, would be unable to avoid the monstrous man-eating anemones’ grasp, tragically becoming the anemones’ foodstuffs. Not only did this lead to the reduction of the rare Indian Jeweled Starfish, but also lead to the cessation of hunger in the anemones. Such a depressing thing, as the anemones were to protect the good doctor’s underwater entrance to his lair, and having full anemones means many more callers…”
-- Journal, 1827

Above are an excerpt from a patent application for the Professor’s “Bicycle for Asteroidea” and the later propeller- and chum cannon- fitted “Pod for Asteroidea”. The starfish would attach himself to the starfish-shaped pan with a substance called “strapping gel” which allowed the suction cup feet of the starfish free to operate the machinery. The later pod also had a retractable hatch on the bottom of the craft to allow the starfish to evert the cardiac stomach into prey, or-- in the case of being snared by an anemone or similar predator-- everting the cardiac and digesting the offending predator from the inside out.

**some day, I will color the second. M

More animal painting...

2009-03-25T13:44:00.000-07:00

More animal paintings from internet photos...

Practice

2009-03-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

Scary Monkey. Scaronkey.

Dear internet, thanks for providing some images for me to badly copy in watercolor and gouache.
I don't remember where I found said images, but hey...these are from photos...and are practice.

Q. Where do we get Buildings?

2009-03-15T17:58:00.001-07:00

A. They are grown on the backs of G. terraforma. The juveniles make larger and more eccentric homes, while the older animals spend more of their energy on producing natural landforms.

Make a note of this in your copy book.

rusty

2009-03-13T22:47:00.000-07:00

I need to draw more. I was starting to get good when I got out of school and then something happened...don't know what...

the dreaded plateau?

hm.

It's Been A Long Time...

2009-02-14T21:55:00.001-08:00

...but I still love you. Have some aht:

Some sketches and Mrs. Lovett, which is also a sketch but with colorsish. The last is loosely based on a girl I went to school with, except she had an entire set of legs. I assume the maid did too, but I ran out of paper.

More to come as soon as I get off my ass and scan some of the pile of sketches I have.

Need to update this thing more...

2008-09-21T09:55:00.000-07:00

Things have been pretty crazy lately. Moved. Got a job. Not in that order. I've been working a lot and weekends/evenings have been devoted to passing out. I will, however, post some stuff eventually--don't know when--but yeah. Drop me a line, you crazy kids, you.

I am not saying "pandamonium"

2008-05-22T21:55:00.000-07:00

Lookie. Another panda. Still playing with shapes, still need to work on linework and coloring. Maybe I should draw larger. hmmmmmm

Ps. out of school!

pps. Purple hair is back again!

some environments

2008-05-18T10:31:00.000-07:00

One and a half weeks after starting to watch Lost, I'm in the middle of the third season. I'm having a difficult time NOT watching it.

Crap. I knew if I started watching it it would be an issue.

CAPSTONE REDUX for anyone who missed it...

2008-05-02T23:38:00.000-07:00

here's a couple photos of my maquettes...better ones than the ones below, imho. The dragon rolled over in the car this last week as a result of some craphead breaking too quickly in Laguna Canyon. He's still okay, but his leg keeps wanting to fall off and his arm is a wee bit shorter now. He still has 5-6 hours of work I need do do before I can put him in the oven (Note: I am not German or a witch...)

The drawings are some ones I put in my crapstone presentation. I'm a mean characaturer.

Pudding Pop Culture

2008-04-21T11:47:00.000-07:00

I don't know why, but in the advertisement on Comedy Central for Lewis Black's Root of all evil, the announcer sounds like he is saying "Pudding Pop Culture" instead of "putting pop culture [in it's place]". I think pudding pop culture sound a lot better. Do you think it would be inappropiate to make a sculpt of Walt Disney's head and make it into a pudding pop mold?

Edit: The above jpg is not scaling correctly or displaying at it's correct size, and I'm over fiddling with blogger for now. In case you can't read it, it says "fennec fox" then "compact fennec" and "fennec sport coupe" and "minivan". It'd probably be a lot more amusing if you could actually see it.

Anyway, there's some crap I found funny at 5 this morning, and here's some pics of my new sculpt, Cleatus the Dragon. When it's done, I'll put up better photos.

Now I have a craving for pudding.

AliceRedux

2008-03-21T20:27:00.000-07:00

I decided to do more to the goth alice thing. I was going to color it, but apparently, I'm currently too computer inhibited to actually do that with out it looking like a 1920s era hand colored photo.

Meanwhile, I had a piece of beef jerky the other day. I haven't had one of those since elementary school, and I realized why I don't eat that stuff to this day. Gross! It made me ill. There was a layer of animal fat coating the whole thing. I should be a vegetarian...

new hair

2008-03-13T14:16:00.000-07:00

It's purple. ish. and it looks better than the photo, i swear.

more maquette stuff

2008-03-04T21:23:00.000-08:00

Here's the details from the hat and knives... He looks a little mottled because I've sanded him, so he's smooth as a baby's bottom. I'll be painting him eventually...

until then, I'm watching Father Ted in a marathon style. I need tea and cake.

cat

2008-03-01T21:29:00.000-08:00

This is the vietnam vet cat. He isn't done yet, but close. This is before he was baked...I'll post some later of the complete maquette before painting...

meh?

2008-02-12T14:11:00.000-08:00

A quick sketch from my history of animation class yesterday. I've been on a bit of a dragon binge lately to prepare for a sculpture I'll be making later.

It's been awhile.

2008-02-03T09:47:00.000-08:00

Well, between trying to finish up school and the holidays, and the inevitable dealings with my own pisspoor self esteem, I've been kinda hesitant to post anything. Haven't had much time on top of that. *shrug* It happens. Anyway, here's a piece i'm not sure I should claim. Cheers!

HAPPY UNVALENTINES DAY!

2007-08-31T21:28:00.000-07:00

It's about this time of year when I start missing the v-day candy. On the other hand, halloween is only two months away!
Yeah. I know what tangents are. This wasn't exactly a planned thing...

no comment

2007-08-28T11:43:00.001-07:00

10 minute digital sketches: I'm still working out how to do decent line work on a computer on-the-fly. Bear with me. Also: I like to draw backs, apparently.

bottom of the bucket

2007-06-21T00:39:00.000-07:00

aw. I'm fresh out of scanned images. I'll work on that.

Bucket O'Sketches

2007-06-13T20:55:00.000-07:00

So these are slightly older sketches from when I could still draw. I'm going through a bit of a slump with the drawing thing right now. Everything looks like I drew it in kindergarden..also, blogger doesn't like posting a lot of pictures, so i'll throw the rest in another post tomorrow.

Oops.

2007-05-28T12:21:00.001-07:00

I will post more soon! Sorry, things are crazy!

Uh huh

2007-05-16T12:35:00.000-07:00

One more raccoon. I can't say I've spent a lot of time looking at them--which is probably why this one has a cat nose instead of a raccoon nose. Did I mention they have funny butts? When they walk they waddle. Cracks me up every time.
Here's some fish I drew during a trip to the aquarium. Why do they all look so upset? Probably because the fish get called "Nemo", "Dory", "Crush" or one of the other Finding Nemo characters by the kiddies. Sure, it's cute the first time. About a thousand times later you're about to bean any kid that comes in your general presence and wants to know if you're drawing Nemo.

And by "bean" I mean "throw in the shark tank." Think of the amazing gesture pose possibilites!

Cue Train

2007-05-15T10:28:00.000-07:00

This is what I actually like doing. Cartoons. Yay! The tiger kinda looks like the type to tie young girls to train tracks...

All of these are done with a Precise V5 Rollerball from Pilot. If anyone works for Pilot and wants to get me free boxes of these, I love you.

More stuffs

2007-05-14T10:57:00.000-07:00

Yay! Raccoons! And a life drawing, though not in that order.

Finally

2007-05-13T22:19:00.000-07:00

After all this time, I have finally decided to post some of my sketches. Be amazed! Or at least, be something... (these guys were from my animal drawing class).