Rick And Morty x Doctor Who Crossover

New art done during my usual stream times on Twitch! Crossover of my two favorite old skinny men with deep seeded emotional issues who travel through time and space.
Done in about 2.5 Hours!
Enjoy!

New Speedpaint up!

New speedpaint up! Featuring everyone's favorite purple mom from Steven Universe! enjoy!

Whirlwind news and updates

Hello all!
I hope everyone has had a lovely time since we last met here, I have a whole lot of changes and exciting news to share with you!

I was recently in California visiting family when I got the news I'd be singing in a show in June for the band Kaioken! A little backstory, I originally auditioned for these guys back in early 2012, before I met with my old band Skies To Conquer- and they ended up passing on me as a singer, but look who's back! The show will be on the 21st of June, and is in Hollywood! Which means I had to repurchase tickets back out to California only weeks after visiting. Gotta leave the state to get gigs in it, go figure. I'm super excited though and have been learning all the songs off of their EP.

But California isn't the only travel I have planned! I also have tickets booked for Vancouver in October! CANADA! This will be my first time traveling to a country I've never been to on my own so I'm SUPER excited. But why am I randomly traveling to Canada? No its not my hankering for some real poutine, though I admit that is a huge factor. I finally was able to book in with a tattoo artist I've been dying to have stab me with her machines. Apologies in advance to disapproving family members, but I've been wanting this for a long time and It'll make me love my body more so lets do this.

Ive got other plans of travel between June and October as well, but for a year that was meant to be quiet- I'm getting a lot done! Excited for so many things and hopefully will be vlogging/blogging all of my experiences.

<3 A

April recap

Hello all!
Sorry it's been a bit quiet on my end here, and the reason being is I've been really busy trying to focus on art things!
As you all probably know I have my patreon, and basically I'm trying to hit a goal of at least two fully finished images per month (hopefully more once I reach higher milestones) to release as rewards!
Along with those I also do my work on Last Nerds, chuck in Twitch streaming, and commissions, I've been a busy lady!
But, I did want to share with you some of the work I've done this moth as I'm very proud with how my craft is developing and coming along.

Commission work for a long time client, and probably one of the most detailed pieces I've done to date!

Patreon commission, the prompt was Princess Zelda! So i did my own punk-ish take on her. I've always been a huge fan of the Legend of Zelda series and still really want a game where she has to save Link for once, who's with me? 

Sawsbuck girl! My take on a humanized pokemon after getting a 'fawn girl' prompt. After I started working on this I got commissioned to do a fawn girl, which I will be working on very soon. 

Redraw! did this in about an hour, just wanted to do a quick redraw of an old drawing I posted about 6 years ago. Sometimes it's nice to try your hand on something you've already drawn to see how far you've come!

And that's why I've been a bit quiet! Not much going on for Thrifty 2015 as I'm trying to save a bit of money to hopefully get a tattoo this summer.

I hope you're all doing fantastic and that you have had a wonderful April! 

<3 A

Disney Inspired Doctor Who

I've been a little busy with art things lately, so I haven't had much time to blog- but I wanted to share my speed drawing process of my Disney Doctor Who piece! It was posted early for Patreons a few days ago!

How a nail in my tire changed my day

So yesterday I wanted to take care of a few errands and hopefully get back home to sew a new top so I could blog about it! Turns out the top was an absolute disaster and once I actually figure out how to fix it I'll share my journey with you.
BUT, today I want to share a little bit of insight of what happened yesterday.
Normally my tire low light is a common signal that it's cold out, and my tires probably need a bit of bumping up to keep them happy and satisfy the light.
I pulled into the local Valero station and noticed there was some out of order paper over the part of the air machine that takes money. Now this could either mean that the machine itself was broken, or just the quarter part- as the machine itself looked just fine. I was hoping it was the later because I totally didn't have any coins with me. Why do we even use coins still? Its so dumb! Why do we still have the penny? I digress.
 I decided before pulling away that I would double check with the cashier and maybe they'd run the machine for me so I could go about my day.
This is when I met the rudest woman in the world.
"Hi there, I was wondering, is the air machine out of order completely, or is it just the bit that takes the quarters?"
Now here she could have responded with a "Oh, it's out completely. Sorry about that." or even a "Yeah its broken. Sorry!"
but instead she replied with a question of her own.
"Does it have paper on it?"
"Yeah- but its just on the quarter-"
"Then its out of order."
"Great. Super. Thank you SO much."

After dealing with employee of the month at Valero, I checked the air pump at another station down the road- also busted! At this point I just wanted to get on with my day so in times of usual car annoyances I dialed my dad ( on hands free bluetooth mind you, I'm not a maniac) and shared with him my low tire light woes. He suggested I visit a tire shop, where they would usually check the pressure and fill for free, but I wouldn't have to worry too much about driving on them while they were low- as long as I got it sorted soon.

So I set out to do my grocery run and tried to avert my eyes from the ever persistent yellow exclamation mark telling me something was wrong. Yes I know. Please chill out. Let me drive!

On my way home I was able to pull into a Firestone and they were able to get to my car right away. Fantastic. I'd be out of here in no time.

Nope.

The mechanic asked for me to pull my car forward a bit after checking the pressure, but surprisingly not adding any air to my tires, which had me raising my very well groomed eyebrows.

"Yeah you've got a nail in your tire."

"Well gosh golly darn."*

*may or may not have been what I actually said at that exact moment.

Thankfully they were able to take my car in as it was only me and a broken down jeep filling their bays.

I filled out the paper work and was suggested to sit down and wait. Either it would be a repair and not cost too much, or if it was too fair gone I'd have to get my tire replaced. I went to pour myself a cup of coffee (which I had been craving as I had left before my normal pre-breakfast cup of life) only to find that the machine had long since been shut off, and the coffee inside was indeed cold.

As I begrudgingly grabbed a water bottle out of the mini fridge next to the betrayal machine I realized I wasn't how I normally would be in this situation. I was weirdly calm. Happy even. Sure, this was a pain in the ass- but really, what could I do about it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Anyone who knows me knows I worry like an old woman. I can count the number of times I've done something against my usual worries that hold me back from doing so, and half of the time they've turned out alright. One of those times I ended up concussed after flying off a mountian bike down a steep trail in New Zealand, and the other I had a blast riding on top of an oil rig while it was running.
I don't suggest doing either of those activities, though the oil rig rodeo did give me a bit of street cred among my delinquent friend group at the time.

I had a clear mind yesterday, and none of it was stress or worry about what would happen to my car. It was liberating and relaxing at the same time. I couldn't even be mad about the lack of coffee.

So I sat, and waited, and after about an hour my tire was repaired and I was on the road.

So thanks to a nail getting stuck in my tire I now want to practice in times of stress or anxiety, just taking a moment to clear my head and not worry. Or at least try to not worry. Or maybe worry a little less than normally. Baby steps.

Why you should work every day at your chosen craft

I have a folder on my desktop named "Redraws". In this folder I happen to have a few somewhat now-embarrassing pieces of my old work that, as you may have guessed, I want to redraw. 

Thanks to the support of my patrons, I finally had the time and the means to get around to the one I wanted to do most.

This is a redraw of an old ‘cover’ for a comic I never got around to of my old characters, “Ava” and “Skunk” who have had many name changes, and really don’t have anything final yet. I hope to do more with them in the future, but I think they deserved a redraw after eight years.

Here it is side by side with the original.

Eight years ago I thought that the image on the left was the best thing I had ever drawn.

 
Don’t stop drawing. Don’t get discouraged. Just keep at it. Some days you’ll hate your work, and some days you’ll love it. Hopefully more of the latter. 

But just keep going. You’re constantly improving even if you can’t see it yourself. Keep at it.

<3 A