Illustrious

Pandora

Sarah — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:49:18 +0000

Jean-Luc

Sarah — Fri, 10 May 2013 05:25:23 +0000

It’s Jean-Luc St. Laurence, an Absit Omen character written by Lily. Just more character practice.

Break the Cycle

Sarah — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:35:48 +0000

Very happy to put together an event logo for the Assault Care Center Extending Shelter & Support (ACCESS)‘s summer bike ride fundraiser: Break the Cycle.

Aoife the Rugged

Sarah — Thu, 09 May 2013 03:49:38 +0000

A new member’s character inspired me to art and so art was done! Aoife Moffett, care of Lizabeth at AO.

Kelzaren the Elf Monk

Sarah — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:16:44 +0000

An elf monk I created for DnD this week. I wanted to play with the typical proportions and aesthetic of elves.

Science Life

Sarah — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:51:11 +0000

A good friend is in his first year of teaching biology and commissioned me to interpret some classroom signage. We worked together to come up with the best imagery, colors and overall concept to best communicate the statements. Final product was eight 11×17″ posters.

Any opportunity I have to design for the classroom and to collaborate with passionate people is an opportunity I can’t miss!

015 Toby

Sarah — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:18:06 +0000

As kids, my brothers and I loved to rent Unico in the Island of Magic and one of my favorite characters was big brother Toby who gains magical powers to serve a crazy evil puppet. And like he had to turn everyone (animals too) into magical puppets too.

This is Toby, but a girl Toby.

This was just a raw digital painting – no pencil/paper like I usually do. It’s really hard to get started, but once I get painting it’s really fun. I think I am just much more dexterous with a pencil so I can get my ideas down much more quickly and in greater detail. Whereas with the tablet/stylus I feel like I fumble a little bit more to get the sketch down. I think it’s mostly to do with the free rotation of the paper – it’s not as easy to do in Photoshop.

Warren and the Dobby Swap

Sarah — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:30:49 +0000

Every year, Absit Omen puts on a holiday gift-exchange we call the Dobby Swap. Dobby the House Elf being a character of great friendship, bravery and generosity. (As well as an appreciator and giver of even the smallest gifts.) This year was our fourth year and each year more and more members join in, from all over the world, from all walks of life. WARMS MY HEART!

AO members come up with all kinds of free creative digital gifts. Polyvore sets, play lists, sets of avatars and signature images, drawings, fan fiction of their characters, video montages – it really is exciting to wait and see what someone made for you, the attention they must have paid to your characters.

I was paired to a member who’s fairly new – Aza. I drew him his character Warren. Aza, as of yet, hasn’t begun using an avatar, so I went on the physical description.

014 Cranium Critters

Sarah — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:57:36 +0000

Aimless sketching with a ballpoint pen while our family played Cranium over the holidays. Utter silliness, surely!

Kitty Portraits

Sarah — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:45:56 +0000

My big Christmas craft project was portraits of the eleven cats in my life – not all of them ended up being gifted (sorry to Knox, Pixie, Popper, Winston and Rajah). But here are the others!

Mose, who belongs to my brother and his wife. He’s a snuggly, shoe-sniffing sort of fellow.

Amelia, my other brother’s happy little rescue. Her tongue hangs out most of the time.

Little Ahab, my dad’s new three-legged kitten dude. He’s really really really cute.

Xena, my mother’s matriarch cat – she’s a 17-year-old Persian/Himalayan. Spry and bright as ever!

Myrtle, adopted sister of Mose. Sweet and quiet and likes to stay home.

Muezza, she with the biggest, widest eyes ever seen on a kitty! Adopted sister of Amelia.