Moose Shirt Mushroom Girl

I call this one Moose Shirt Mushroom Girl! (and companion). I might paint this one at some point but you know how I am. I like everything better when it's in pencil. Although it would look good in watercolour. Sexy sexy watercolour.

On another note, I have mosquitos in my room! How did they get there!?

Becky out

I Kill Giants (Fan Art)

I was recently at a very good, but very long workshop on how to do taxes as a sole trader. Thrilling stuff. Anyway, as you can imagine, I spent half the time drawing. I drew Barbara from 'I Kill Giants' from memory (so don't hate me if I got it wrong) and wearing my logo on her shirt (coz she thinks I'm cool). If you haven't read the book yet, get your ass onto it. Barbara is my hero. 

I also thought it'd be fun to draw her as a teenager. It started out as a drawing of my Quadropus (see below) but yeah, ended up with a human underneath him. And Barbara, with a Quadropus on her head. That's fine, she likes strange hats anyway. Please forgive the rude gesture, it was her not me. 

I want hair like that! :) 

(Photography by Siobhan Hunt)

What I've been up to

I haven't forgotten you bloggy blog. I've been busy with an amount of things, the two photos above are proof!. The first image is a watercolor for the White Space graphic novel's cover. And below it are two laser cut wooden toys for my event project. I painted the mdf board before laser cutting so they looked nice a clean. A bunch of the little birds are going to get made up in different colours and placed in my hair, which will be teased to all hell to look like a bird's nest, and photographed by my good friend Matt. So that'll be fun, photos soon. 

Update:

You Will Never Know

I've recently spent five years of my life working at a super market posed as a Deli Assistant. What I was really doing? Collecting characters for a comic, although at first it was simply a way of calming down after a particularly annoying customer. It strange to think that these two will have absolutely no idea that I found them hilarious or agitating, and that after serving them, drew them onto a post-it notes which I pocketed. These post-its accumulated and now I'm writing them all into the comic I'm working on. It reminds me a bit of when I was in Japan. My friend Clinton and I were on a bullet train headed for Osaka when the train paused to let people off. The train was on a rail suspended high above a town, there where a few people walking far down below. "Watch this." Clinton said as he turned on his wicked super zooming camera and honed in on a Japanese girl, about our age, who was chatting to her friend far down below. He took a photo of her just as she cracked this gorgeous smile, before the train sped away. I have this photo. I am in New Zealand, in my room at my parents house and I have this photo. This does my head in. She could never know. These people I've drawn will never know. This scares me. How many photos are there of me out there? Or drawings? I hope I'm never dick enough to someone serving me who is really a cartoonist in disguise.

Moral of the story?
Don't be a dick
Bigger moral of the story
You will never know

EDIT: Clinton is not a creepy dude! He was showing off his powerful super awesome camera.
Really, I'm the creepy one for keeping the photo. So just so we're clear, Clinton = quite a cool dude. Becky = creepy cartoonist who will draw you if you piss her off

Where I've been lately and Why you shouldn't hate me

My first commission. She's a pretty big job.

Click for full view

Colour Me Monday (Math)

I got me a charmer. This week's colour palette has a good mix of girly and boy colours I think. To be honest I don't think there are such things as girl colours and boy colours. My favourite colours are the ones found on a common piece of moss so.. 

Anyway that's Math for you. A conversation between a friend of mine, Steph, and my boyfriend.

Watercolour Mushroom

I started digitally painting it as well as using watercolours on the original. So far I like the watercolours best. Nearly finished. Click for full size.