06 5 / 2013
Marvin is my mews. He has a double-jointed tail that flips over his back like the handle of a tea pot. He could give Grumpy Cat a run for her money in the grump department.
17 4 / 2013
I’ll be selling prints of this at FanExpo Vancouver this weekend, April 20-21 for only 10$!
15 4 / 2013
Anonymous asked: Hey Rebecca, I'm a friend of Bougie's, Ashley Strayer. from Seattle. I have a tattoo appointment booked for August where I'm trying to think of something to cover up the tattoos on my feet and I would love to get some of your plump warriors on my feet. Could I get your blessing? Would you be open to drawing something custom? Otherwise, as long as it's OK by you, I was just going to pick something from your tumblr. Thank you. I ADORE your art!
Hi Ashley,
You definitely have my blessing, in fact I would be honored to have a Kitten Rider etched in your flesh!
Sorry I won’t be able to do any original art, but feel free to pick any one from my Tumblr or Flickr. All I ask is for a photo of the finished work. Can’t wait to see it!
Rebecca
30 3 / 2013
First I drew the tree using a 4B pencil on watercolor paper, scanned it, messed with the levels to make the lines as dark and the paper as bright as I could, then separated the lines.
Taking the original line drawing I added an ink wash, scanned it, then after that I colored it in PS using overlay and multiply layers. By bringing in the line art, lining it up and preserving the transparency I was able to color those lines separately.
Then there was endless twiddling and fussing.
Overall, I’m happy with the results, but there was a bit of a problem with some shadowing underneath the top line art, which only became an issue when using lightly colored lines. For that I would use the clone stamp to knock out the bottom line.
30 3 / 2013
This is a little experiment of trying to find a balance between digital and tradition art.
25 3 / 2013
Decided to take in the mounted head of the Common Babelbrax, that I harvested in the Purple Stink Plains that covers the third moon off of Bustylicious IV, into work today.
Battle Buddy, Marvin, is demonstrating his take-down technique that helped me bag the beast.
24 2 / 2013
Back in 2008 I pitched an idea for an animated series called “The Barbarian Exchange”. It was about a brother and sister that sign up for a foreign exchange student program, but end up in a remote valley where barbarians and evil wizards still ruled the land.
The character designs were drawn by the incredibly talented Steve Wolfhard. I drew the backgrounds, which were painted by the amazing colour-stylist Geoff Manson. The last drawing is a little biopic by yours truly.
It never went past being a one-sheet and a handful of concept drawings. The animation studio I had pitched it to, shopped it around, but couldn’t get a distributor to bite, in fact one Australia distributor said that children wouldn’t like it because the kids in the show didn’t have cell phones. It was dropped like a hot potato after that and has not seen the light of day until now.
18 2 / 2013
It’s been my first week as art director at a Vancouver animation studio (I’m also doing all the background designs too *wipes imaginary sweat from brow*) and it’s not leaving me with much free time. I’ll try to post as often as I can, but it might be slow going for awhile.
This is a commission from awhile back.
Take care and ABC (Always Be Creating)!
