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A new very special spring Kit is available at Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps (http://www.kraftinkimmiestamps.com/ ) for a limited time only! And this little painting was done with one of those stamps! All designs for this kit were done by me, so enjoy them while they are available!

If you are following the blog hop, you next stop is with the lovely Jeanne! http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/category/kraftin-kimmie-stamps/

This painting too forever! And it’s finally done! I started it about a year ago but it on the side to only come back to it now. And now she is done!

Of course, this is the Princess and the Pea!

“This Princess Didn’t Get Much Sleep”
24×12 inches inked drawing, colored in Photoshop CS

This was unexpected. Yesterday, while on the FP chatroom, I talked a little about illustration and how I was trying to find a certain look for my work. I’d seen examples but somehow couldn’t get it right when I tried it. I wondered if the medium was the problem, and thought that maybe I should try something new.

So today, I wanted to try gouache with a little bit of colored pencils too. Nothing fancy! But it turned out pretty cool! It’ll take many hours of practice before getting the hang, but I’ve enjoyed this little sketch very very much!

Maybe I should make it a daily thing, but I don’t know if I’ll have enough time with all the work to actually manage this. So no promises! ahaha!

Please excuse the crooked oval and not so tight design. I really did this without expecting much of it, so it’s really not perfect.

I mentioned a little earlier that I was planning a Livestream session to show a little bit about my process. So if you are curious or you would like to ask questions, anything really, the session will be this saturday February 27th at 7PM Est. I will do a little bit of inking and a lot of watercolour. There will also have a little presentation on paper, material, sketching. I’m thinking it will be roughly 3 hres. I’ve never really done this before, so I will go with the flow and see how it turns out!

This will be the drawing I will be working on:

I hope to see you tomorrow!!

Another month and another stamp release from Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps (http://www.kraftinkimmiestamps.com/ )!! For February, I have another fun set of stamps to share with everyone! I designed pirate stamps!!! And usually, I have 4 new stamps, but starting now, there will be a fifth one. If you go around the blog hop you will see that the extra stamp is based off my very own painting of Strawberry Pirate Alicia! And to celebrate this, Kimmie is giving away a print of Alicia also! Every purchase on Kimmie’s site is eligible to win the prize!

I tried to do a little card design again. It’s very simple though. But it was fun! I used Polly the Wench for this card:

Of course, like in each of the blog hops, you get to win free stamps! And we all love free stamps, yes? (who wouldn’t?) BUT to get a chance to win, you have to leave a comment on all the blogs in the hop!

The blog starts here: http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.com

And if you came from the lovely Andrea’s blog, then your next stop is with the wonderful Betty! : http://scrappybetty.blogspot.com/

Last weekend, I was at the G-Anime convention. Turned out that I had a lot of free time, so I managed to sketch a little something!

Since my work schedule is booked until at least the 19th of February (I’m aiming at the 18th, because the 19th is a special day for me!), I won’t be able to paint this little lady until the week after that. So, I am considering doing a Livestream session around the 27th of February to share the progress of this particular piece. Someone contacted me about a month ago to ask if I could do something like that, and I thought why not! I will most likely give more information later one. I still need to find the best setup to do this. But any feedback on this idea is more than welcomed!

I just couldn’t resist. I wonder if I can find a nice widget online to add to my Blog so that it can be followed here? I will have to investigate. But for those interested, here is the link to my Twitter:

http://twitter.com/annierodrigue

Enjoy!

I did it! I finished this one. It’s been waiting on my desk for so long! I was scared that painting would take too much time, but it turned out to be faster than expected!

One of my new year resolution was to do more backgrounds in my illustrative work. Hopefully, I’m on the right track with this one!

They are my friends Josiane Tremblay (artist) and Mathieu Lafrenière (writer) characters from their comic book story they are doing along side mine. We had a Christmas exchange, and this is part gift to them. (Yes, I am aware that I am really late! ahahah! Hopefully they will forgive me!)

“The Shadow Monster”
11×14 watercolour, acrylics and ink on hot pressed paper.

I have to be honest, I have been neglecting a lot of things online. Haven’t been around much, chatting, writing, talking much. Is it too late for 2010 resolutions?

I will try to fix this. January was CRAZY! It finished the wrong way too I think. Let’s try and make February better. Lots of things to look up to. But while I am getting ready for a con this weekend, I got bored/stressed/overwhelmed, so I decided I should try and calm down. Writing seemed like a nice way to go.

I haven’t painted in a while, but last weekend, I changed that and picked up a pencilled and inked illustration that had been waiting for me for the whole month and started adding colour. I am not done yet. But if I finish the convention preps fast enough today, maybe I’ll be able to put a few more hours on it. It will be worth it. It’s rather big and complex too. I tried to push myself a little. Hopefully it shows in this one.

And I wanted to share comic book stuff. I figured it would be better to do that, then to stay silent for the next I-don’t-know-how-many months. Yes? I’m note even sure it interests people at all. *laughs* But I kind want to share this project with people because it means so much to me.

The icon is a character from the comic also. I got tired of the sweet little mermaid face. I’m afraid you will have to endure crazy lady Tagara from now on. (or until I have something better)

One of the pencilled pages. The middle panel is not finished, I want to have some background. Nothing fancy, but I just haven’t gotten there yet.

And I’ve been doing a lot of backgrounds on this project. I think I’m getting the swing of things. I scanned to of my favourite background-ish thumbnails (the pencilled panels are not finished yet, but started)

This little sketch kept me awake a good part of the night. Unfortunately, I don’t feel the idea and design are good enough to make a painting, but I still think the sketch is good enough to share. Last night, I wanted (again) to draw/ paint something with a tiger, so I tried to come up with an idea that could work without being too fancy because of the very limited extra time I have this month.

And now back to that comic book project!