Movember Auctions!

Yes! I've finally gotten off my ass and finally listed some sketches for some
Movember Madness!
(ie the personal project I was talking about in my last post).

All proceeds from these auctions will go to Movember who are collecting funds for research and to raise awareness of Men's Health Issues with partners The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia and beyondblue so

CLICK HERE

to go to my page of auctions.

Since I can't grow a mo' for the cause (or actually ... but that's another story ...) I thought I'd draw some! And then some more!
I'll be doing a drawing for each day of November (and maybe more if time permits) and all auctions are for a single page of my sketchbook which has a drawing on each side, so 2 drawings for the price of 1! Bargain!

And one more time:

CLICK HERE

to see all my auctions!!!

NaNoDrawMo 1/50

Trying to get the aesthetic down for my November project. Any guesses what it is going to be? ;)
I had wanted to try out a few more of these tonight but I got sidetracked by a program called "Superhuman" over at ABC2 so I only got one sketch done ...

Also, there's a group I joined called NaNoDrawMo over at Flickr which is a counterpart to NaNoWriMo for those less literarily inclined (ie moi) in which I am to create 50 pieces of Art in the 30 days of November (!!!) Seeing as it's the 4th and this is my first piece ... well, I've never been all that interested in numbers anyways (total lie!)

Graphite and Ink

Please forgive my flash photography ... it's 11:33pm ... must be more concise and coherent next post ...

Daily Doodle October Roundup

I've just completed a month of Daily Doodles over at Shuttercal with a Halloween twist! (Not that I'm all that into Halloween or dressing up for that matter. And yes, a BAH HUMBUG to ya'll!).

Here's a few of my favourites:

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(I was also trying to expand my vocabulario español)

I have a small scheme cooked up for my November doodles but will research a little before I decide whether to go through with it or not.

Postcrossing #11

C'mon blog, you make it!!!
To stop my blog flatlining, here is a quickie Postcrossing card that has already arrived in Finland! I will never say anything bad about Australia Post again.



Now I'm off to see "This Is It"!!!

Movie Tag Team - "The Running Man"

Another movie I haven't seen over at the Movie Tag Team (at the Unit 16 forum). I really should get out more ... or, stay in rather.

Also, I have had a cold for the last three days. Woe woe woe is me!!!!
Which is to say that the following image is pretty rough. And somehow Dynamo became Asian ...

"Through a haze of Codral and Nurofen, I present the moment that Kid Dynamo figured out that his costume needed more *S*P*A*R*K*L*E"

Photoshop

Felt Mooncake

Having finally completed the fortune cookies for my friend, I thought I'd have a go at the Moon Cake as well before posting the whole package to her. Unfortunately I missed the Moon Cake Festival (or "Mid Autumn" Festival as it is officially called I suppose ...) by a week or so but she still seemed pleased!
It was quite nice to find out that embroidery is not as hard as I thought, you just gotta know what a 'back stitch' is!

I also supplemented the package with a full set of the 3 Totoro sizes (hmmm, it appears I didn't take photos of Chibi-Totoro ... but I have plans to make the set again for my own pleasure!). However, I was a little ashamed of my O-Totoro disaster, therefore I fashioned a most ingenious fashion accessory. Muy bonito!!! Much improved yes? (Sorry Totoro!!!)

Felt Fortune Cookies

I discovered it was not purely my lack of sewing prowess that resulted in a disastrous first attempt at these fortune cookies - it was more my lack of ability to cut out a perfect circle with blunt scissors! A cheap circle cutter later and I'm VERY happy with my next three attempts! :D

Felt and thread

However, I am very wary of embroidering tiny English fortunes on the slips ...

Movie Tag Team - "Babe"

When I started my new job (oh so many months ago now ... or so it feels) I joined the Unit 16 forum that a lot of the folks at the studio were already a part of. One of the activities on that thar forum is a "Movie Tag Team" where one posts a character from a movie of their choice and the next in line interprets that into an image. (Or perhaps ya'll should just go check out the thread).

My turn finally came up and I got "Babe" which I have never actually watched.
Thusly this occurred:

Alias Sketchbook and Photoshop.

It's been a while since I had some Photoshop fun ... it's all Flash, Flash, Flash at work (or CRASH CRASH CRASH if we're going to be literal ... grrrr ...)

Beryl and her Moopsie Companion

Although her dear partner Bruce left her all alone, Beryl understood that sometimes the world has bigger plans for us and our loved ones. Therefore, she found a matching pet Moopsie to fill the hole left in her heart.

Wool, beads and a button!

Now then: Less typing ... more creating ...

Moly X Portrait 3 - Sherri's Moly

(I've had a headache since yesterday so my mind's a little fuzzy ... can't think straight so can't think what to type!!!)

Got off me butt this week and finished another Moly X Portait 3 entry after having Sherri's book for a few solid months ...
Her theme is pencil and pixels so I made a little 8-bit Sherri and made myself up in pencil. I'm not wearing my glasses here as I'm not supposed to wear them for 'close up' stuff like reading and computer work hence the slight squinting as well.
And not to advertise but once you go Wacom, you can never go back (at least not me!)

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And the digital Sherri: