I Gave Birth To This Sewing Abomination

Kawaii♥!



I did this sorta askewed stuffed animal while I completed my tailoring apprenticeship. When I started it, I had no idea it would come to resemble a weiner dog.

And then I thought maybe it could double as a sorta blowup doll for my dog back home. But he's just as neutered as Hugh Heifner on a Ritalin choo-choo. So I refined this fabric masterpiece and this is how it turned out:

Flying Doggie!


Full Length View


Top Dog ★


Under Dog✩ (Talk about recycling...did I mention it was made from an old sweater from Goodwill?)


Closeup of tail finishing


I feel dirty! No redrocketing here folks!


Stand up! Good boy!☻


We have the technology to rebuild him...


It took me 2 hrs to make this bad boy, plus 5 min to hand-sew the buttons on.

Boy-o, using a sewing machine RULES! I once mended 5 pairs of socks and took me about 6 hrs. If you have the machine, by all means use it! Another thing that sucks about hand sewing? If your fabric is too thick you have to use a lot of force to push that needle thru. That's where a thimble comes in handy. But your fingers get tender in the end regardless.

Maybe next time I'll crochet a condom or something. More riveting updates L8TR!

Emo Room

Before Twitter, Yahoo! Answers was my crack. I was on it earlier as I had a few ?'s of my own when I noticed someone asking for an emo bedroom ideas.

Then I drew this little diddy quickly. It's important to note when painting a bedroom, you have to use lighter colors on the walls if you have less than 2 windows. Light plays a major role in interior design. So here's my concept with one window:



Of course I cut & paste the vinyl toys & plushies. And there's wall decals on there as well. I am a fan of minimalism. Oh man, the things I could design with an unlimited budget! A girl can dream.

Sketchbook Diaries 1

Roommate and I had a friend over one night. Needless intoxication ensued, along with hijinks and some episode about farting on each other's faces. I set taco shells on fire. Friend ran down the stairs with burning toaster oven. Good times, good times. Friend and I had a mini-drawing marathon/ Halo marathon. Somehow I came up with this and damned if I can remember what he drew.

My Anbu Soldier

No secret I'm otaku, although not as hardcore as some anime-nazis I've met in my time ;-)

This drawing I am particularly proud of because it was done purely by imagination. No reference pictures whatsoever. Which means it took a buttload of hours to draw, especially cuz I'm indecisive about composition and poses. But I did have to erase a billion times over the drawing, now in one of my old sketchbooks somewhere in storage. (complete with eraser burnmarks!)

BTW, this was done with a mouse 3 yrs. ago during my pre-Wacom days. And yes, massive carpal tunnel ensued (>_<)

Making My Tshirts At Home

There are plenty of tutorials out there for this kind of thing, and this isn't one of them.
Though if you ask nicely, I'll happily point the way towards some really good ones ;-)

I got the urge one night (ok, 3 nites and 3 shirts) to make my own shirt designs right here by hand. I constantly shift between computer art and um, human-powered art. Doing one or the other gets tedious and this time around was no different.

The biggest obstacles I face right now are that my studio space is in Jersey along with my art supplies. Even if I had them here, papi raises hell for even small infractions. Like leaving a sweater on a couch.

Heaven help me if I leave a sweater on a couch, in this nursing home of derelicts! Not only will I keep hearing about it over, and over, and get lambasted with it atop any future accusations, but have a lil' old man chirping in my ear repeatedly whilst circling and hovering over me. Interrogation tactics that would make even the KGB cry for their mommy. Makes anyone feel all stabby, it does :-P

As a result, much of my art has been reduced to digital. Luckily I found my Japanese toxic marker pens that write on anything (leather, vinyl, fabric) and found some blank Hanes™ Tshirts and got the hell going on that there hizzy:

As you can plainly see, I began drawing on printer paper and taped it with drafting tape onto corrugated cardboard backing (my clipboard dissappeared). The drafting tape part is important. It makes peeling off super easy and holds strong. And for the drawing, a regular #2 pencil and Sanford™ Eraser Stick.

Above you can see the finished sketch, complete with a multitude of erased-over indentations. Kinda sloppy, so I remedied this by printing out a copy on my All-In-One printer, at full dark.
That printed copy I then traced in black Sharpie™ marker:

Next, as soon as I finish I tape onto the cardboard and slide a blank shirt over it. That shirt is then affixed to the cardboard to prevent sliding around as I draw over it with the paint marker.

See what I mean? Zoom shot!


And here are some angle shots of how I affixed the shirt in place:



Here I am drawing over the shirt (with Sharpie first), which covers the drawing I am tracing:



Here you can see the kind of paint marker I use over it, and the final result:



I should mention that although I made this shirt for a friend, that friend wears a size Medium in men's. All I had was XL to work with, which explains the extra tightening of the rubberband in the back. Also explains why the graphic seems small in the center. But he knows his way around industrial sewing machines, so it won't be problematic resizing it.

The drawing is a chibi of my friend; meet Poundcake!

Don't cry! I didn't really go anywhere

Since my last post, I did get quite a bit done.

I did open a Zazzle store, opened a Paypal accunt, did a few Munny mods, re-arranged my work space...

Then my computer started acting up.

Then I had to troubleshoot for two weeks, TWO WEEKS! And I still coudn't figure it out.

Then, the internet signal disappeared! I couldn't connect to anyone for those same two weeks!

So I went to the local Panera and I couldn't connect THERE either. *frustrating!*

So I went to Starbucks and still, I couldn't connect despite delicious chai green tea latte goodness.

And I finally gave up, gave in. Rang up my computer guy, HappyGuy, and told him that hey, this shit sucks ass! I need my cyberjuice! HELP ME!!!!

HappyGuy traveled all the way from Brooklyn out here and with him took my laptop. I had nothing to do in those following two weeks and I shit you not, I got a bad case of the Twitter jitters. Bad enough I'm stewing in the pathetic juices of celibacy, but now I can't even Twitter! Yea, but the phone got disconnected months ago, so no go.

So what's a girl to do?

Turn into a couch potato, of course!

So I've been watching tv on the couch and believe I put a permanent indentation into it. Direct TV sent us a notice telling us it was giving us 3 mo. of free Showtime. Saw it; not impressed. It's like they only have 10 movies, EVER, and they keep replaying them on a loop. Annoying! And people would pay for this service?!

Thank god for USA Network and it's back to back NCIS episodes. And fuck TLC and all their baby shows! Whores. I threw up a little in my mouth from flipping thru and catching a clip of an obese woman giving birth. The real shit kicker was that she was cross-eyed during the push. *BLEERGH!*

So I peeled myself off the couch and did some landscaping. I actually pulled up old brickwork and replaced it. Found plenty of rusty nails mixed with concrete chunks from the days of yore. And pulled weeds out. And planted bulbs. And planted shrubs. And planted flowers. And when it was all said and done, I began clawing at the walls because ordinarily I'd be screwing right about now and now there's no hot guy to screw. Must keep busy; idle hands, the devil's tool.

Luckily HappyGuy triumphantly returned (no I did not screw him; just friends thank you) and we went to see a few movies: Wolverine, Star Trek, and Terminator:Salvation; all terrific btw! Afterwards he handed me back my laptop all fixed and such, telling me that my firewall was set so high it kept changing the permissions on my wifi so I couldn't connect. Duh!

And as a bonus, he updated all my software, defragmented, deleted broken files, and optimized my overall OS. Fuck GeekSquad, I got HappyGuy! I'd totally do a website for him but he remains on the down low due to a booming roster of clientele. Hell, everything I learned about computers is due to him. If I ever moved out of state, I'd be so fucked! And not in a good way ;-)

Speaking of getting laid (which I am not) I decided to do the online dating thing. Wow. What a mess of rejects are out there! Get this:

• ~One guy told me some gaylord is blackmailing him and kept chiding me for drinking 2 beers on our date (WTF),
  
• ~One guy turned his nose at me because I'm a pc and not a mac,
  
• ~And another pulled a 180 calling me an idiot because I refused to upload chat software (Christ compels you, you demon assclown!)
  
• ~And last but not least, some dude I played guitar duets with in highschool tried to contact me-EEEWW! I don't think he realized who I was, thank god! Suffice to say the years have not been kind to this former jerk as his profile pic makes him look like some kind of rodent-eww! Nuff said. I'm off to the convent now.
• ~DATING SUCKS BEAR'S BALLS
  

So I am channeling my positive energies into my art. Started making Tshirt designs again. I actually painted on the shirts the designs and will mail them to out-of-state friends. If any of you ever wanna see previews of any of my artwork, go to my Twitter profile where I post them. So that's it for this brief recap of where the hell I've been this whole time. Bye for now; gotta update the look on this site.

Tags: Zazzle store, Paypal, Munny mods, HappyGuy, Twitter, couch potato, celibacy, landscaping, online dating, making Tshirt designs, artwork previews, and only I can put all these random tags together and make it work ;-)

Busy-ness

So a few new additions to this site:

• Freebies tab; all new (under construction)
• modified links widget; now includes link to my playlist
  
• links back to my other site as well; go to it cuz there's a list of design contests
  

So enjoy. Should keep everyone busy awhile. I'm still spending too much time on the other site, simply because me and many others are having issues with FeedBurner right now. Such as, why my stats indicate many visitors yet the counter only shows one. Hmm. 'Tis a quandary of sorts.

Tags: Freebies, modified links, new additions