Ive moved my blog! To match up with my new portfolio site coming out soon.....
http://blog.heywhitney.com
I hope you will follow me there
I will try to keep them both current for a little bit.
<3
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
draw draw draw draw
Why oh why does it seem like there is never enough time to draw the way I would like to draw. Of course the reason is obvious. Paying my bills. Oh how I long for the day when at least a portion of my bills can be paid off by some artistic endeavour. I have all these drawings stored up inside my head. And in there, they are beautiful, charming, and funny. Drawings that took me hours to complete but look effortless. I just need more hours in the day. To let people know I exist. To get all the ideas or real paper. Once again I have a year full of very big plans. Probably bigger than most of the plans before. I think this might just be my year. Or at least the year that kicks this journey off for real.
I wish I had some drawings to accompany this post. It's not that I haven't drawn at all over these past few weeks, because I have. But the drawings are not up to par quite yet.
All I can hope is that soon I will have some time to really sit down and and make them look as beautiful as they do in my head.
I wish I had some drawings to accompany this post. It's not that I haven't drawn at all over these past few weeks, because I have. But the drawings are not up to par quite yet.
All I can hope is that soon I will have some time to really sit down and and make them look as beautiful as they do in my head.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Raccoons..
I have a major "to do" list to check things off of over the Christmas break. This hopefully involves starting a new website that is ALL MINE. And has nothing to do with Flickr, Yahoo, or the blogosphere (not that those are bad services). But this will be all mine to show off my work to all you lovely people and of course lovely editors, publishers and anyone looking for artists. Enough about THAT. Let's talk about yet another new project:
My newest project involves many raccoon critters. I've been drawing them for days and last night I sat down to hammer out the first full color version of what I think they will look like in my story. She isn't perfect but close enough that I am very excited to see the progression of this project.
Early raccoon ladies.
Early raccoon gents.
And the new lovely finished version of one such violinist raccoon.
I can't wait to show you more!
My newest project involves many raccoon critters. I've been drawing them for days and last night I sat down to hammer out the first full color version of what I think they will look like in my story. She isn't perfect but close enough that I am very excited to see the progression of this project.
Early raccoon ladies.
Early raccoon gents.
And the new lovely finished version of one such violinist raccoon.
I can't wait to show you more!
Monday, November 23, 2009
A Girl Gets Busy Sometimes.
Bad blogger! Bad Whitney!
Every now and then (let's face it most often than not) I get super super swamped. And with the start of the school year of course that was bound to happen. The key is, though I didn't really tell you about it, I WAS and am drawing through all this madness. I don't think a day goes by any more when I don't draw something. Even if its a doodle of something I ate that day, I draw. And I'm getting better. Which feels great.
But there hasn't been a calm moment really since the school year began. If I'm not drawing, I'm singing or playing ukulele. If I'm not playing, I'm grading papers or writing tests or filling out endless school paperwork.
I've been working less on my kid's books, and more and more on my graphic novel. It isn't really for kids at all. I don't think it would even qualify as YA. But I really like the idea and the writing is starting to come together, so I'm rolling with it. Without text (NO SPOILERS) it looks like this:
I'm really digging the style of it so far. I think in terms of comics, my style has come SO far from only last year.
It feels good to be productive. But crazy trying to figure out my next direction.
Every now and then (let's face it most often than not) I get super super swamped. And with the start of the school year of course that was bound to happen. The key is, though I didn't really tell you about it, I WAS and am drawing through all this madness. I don't think a day goes by any more when I don't draw something. Even if its a doodle of something I ate that day, I draw. And I'm getting better. Which feels great.
But there hasn't been a calm moment really since the school year began. If I'm not drawing, I'm singing or playing ukulele. If I'm not playing, I'm grading papers or writing tests or filling out endless school paperwork.
I've been working less on my kid's books, and more and more on my graphic novel. It isn't really for kids at all. I don't think it would even qualify as YA. But I really like the idea and the writing is starting to come together, so I'm rolling with it. Without text (NO SPOILERS) it looks like this:
I'm really digging the style of it so far. I think in terms of comics, my style has come SO far from only last year.
It feels good to be productive. But crazy trying to figure out my next direction.
Friday, September 25, 2009
My little dumplings...
I know this is my illustration blog and my last post was SUCH a downer (I'm promptly going to delete it after writing this one) but I think part of my daily journey into the world of illustration is very much intertwined with my "day job" as a school teacher. So I think a post every now and then about my goings on at school is still appropriate.
This year I am teaching 5th grade. Every subject. Very different from what I'm used to but I'm re-learning so much, and loving every minute. Even math. Yeah, I couldn't believe it either.
Don't let my glowing over it confuse you. 5th graders are little friggin nightmares sometimes. It's a grade that I have consistently complained about even when I was the art teacher. I think I even once said "They should just out law fifth grade all together, lock 'em up for a year and release them for sixth grade."
Oh Karma.
Anyhow, on a day where my kids were being particularly chatty in the hall I called them back into the classroom to reprimand their noisiness I found myself asking them If any of them had ever seen ninjas in movies or on TV. Of course they had. I explained to them that I wanted them to act as if they were ninjas. To move silently and sneakily through the halls. So no one even knows how we even got to the cafeteria in the first place! They of course bought this with extreme enthusiasm. I have no idea where the idea came from. Then one student asked me at the start of the week if I considered them to be ninjas yet.
HA! OF COURSE NOT! You aren't ready to be ninjas yet. You are still in training. You guys are like....um......dumplings. I'll let you know when you move up in the ranks.
Enter Chloe. An adorable girl in my class, who also attended my art club last year. Chloe is brilliant. Never gives me a lick of trouble in class, and for some reason has a thing for storm troopers. She hands me a folded up piece of paper. Kids have been doing this all year so far. They dont pass notes to each other. They pass them to me. Why? Beats me.
I unfold the note. And... and.. I can't even begin...
Yes. That's me. In a ninja suit. With my dumplings. Please view it large for all the comic glory.
Who is the happiest teacher ever?
This year I am teaching 5th grade. Every subject. Very different from what I'm used to but I'm re-learning so much, and loving every minute. Even math. Yeah, I couldn't believe it either.
Don't let my glowing over it confuse you. 5th graders are little friggin nightmares sometimes. It's a grade that I have consistently complained about even when I was the art teacher. I think I even once said "They should just out law fifth grade all together, lock 'em up for a year and release them for sixth grade."
Oh Karma.
Anyhow, on a day where my kids were being particularly chatty in the hall I called them back into the classroom to reprimand their noisiness I found myself asking them If any of them had ever seen ninjas in movies or on TV. Of course they had. I explained to them that I wanted them to act as if they were ninjas. To move silently and sneakily through the halls. So no one even knows how we even got to the cafeteria in the first place! They of course bought this with extreme enthusiasm. I have no idea where the idea came from. Then one student asked me at the start of the week if I considered them to be ninjas yet.
HA! OF COURSE NOT! You aren't ready to be ninjas yet. You are still in training. You guys are like....um......dumplings. I'll let you know when you move up in the ranks.
Enter Chloe. An adorable girl in my class, who also attended my art club last year. Chloe is brilliant. Never gives me a lick of trouble in class, and for some reason has a thing for storm troopers. She hands me a folded up piece of paper. Kids have been doing this all year so far. They dont pass notes to each other. They pass them to me. Why? Beats me.
I unfold the note. And... and.. I can't even begin...
Yes. That's me. In a ninja suit. With my dumplings. Please view it large for all the comic glory.
Who is the happiest teacher ever?
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