Da Kine Stuff

Four wings are better than two

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:13:50 GMT

Nothing says Christmas like a painting of a dodo.

Gotochi Kitty

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:43:02 GMT

Oh man, look at these! I want them all! Hello Kitty as a piece of banana, squid, purple fox, pineapple, sea urchin, and more hilarity. They're exclusive to different parts of Japan, I wonder if they sell any around here. I saw a site with ones from San Francisco that have her dressed as a crab and sea lion. Japan has the best ideas ever.

If this one is a turtle riding a manatee, I need it like NOW. Seriously.

Purple Primates

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:54:07 GMT

A page of monkey sketches that I did at night. I was too lazy to find a sharpener so they're even scratchier than usual since my pencil was dull.

Joyeux Noël

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:39:35 GMT

I got a little purple Christmas tree, in all its cheezy tacky glory! It even has lights. I wish I had a bunch of hilarious Japanese cellphone/keychain charms to decorate it with. Imagine a tree covered with things like this; oh the joy! I'd keep it up year-round.

I need to pick out my calendar for next year. Wow, 2010. The future is now...

Edit:

Purpley tree.

Glow little tree, glow!

So very lazy

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:13:06 GMT

Last night I had to try hard to keep myself from flying out of bed at 2:30 am to make a painting that I thought of. Now I don't feel like making anything. Blarg.

I want a necklace made of rose gold. But everything I'm finding online is full of jewels and is an empty outline of a heart or something. I want a solid pendant, because it looks so smooth and pink and pretty like that. Gold is so expensive, that if I decide to spend the money on it, I want to be sure to really like it.

A better look at that cute little outfit you have on

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:10:00 GMT

Help me, someone. I've resorted to disturbing pictures of Pee-Wee Herman painted while sitting in bed.

I can't get enough of the veggie chips from Trader Joe's. Mm mm, good!

Going in & out of style

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:02:05 GMT

Why do I keep having relapses of sickness? I'll feel OK, then the next day I'm just all blah.

I feel the need to draw the Beatles. I kind of did, and still feel as though I should do more. Rock on, foxy George, one time for me!

Now to try to sleep.

Everything's a unicorn

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:03:01 GMT

This is what happens when I feel the need to make art but have no ideas. Carnivorous horned bunny and overly cute environ-friends. Unicorns are fun.

Those of you in close proximity to a Yogurtland, they have limited edition Tokidoki spoons(!!!) and I would like to collect all four. Can anyone grab me some of them? And then take me to Yogurtland? <3 They have new Christmas flavors that look nummy.

Bloop

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:20:14 GMT

Sgt. Pepper's is coming out for Beatles Rock Band. Must have Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Crazy looking art of bears and birds and other stuff. Not exciting or different, but they're new.

Not asleep yet, again

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:08:32 GMT

Does anyone know a good site for finding out what album a song is from originally? That's not wikipedia? I have some songs that I wanted where the only CD I could find them on are like "Let's Get This Funky Party Started with Mickey and Friends" and I don't want to have that title soiling my iPod ;P. I've also started geeking out over Danny Elfman soundtracks again. I want more...he's done so many now that I don't have >:[.

I also want to draw more. Maybe a collaboration? Eh, friends, eh (eyebrows waggling)?

Anything can happen on Halloween

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:20:17 GMT

A quick lunch-time post. I wanted to be sure to say Happy Halloween! Have fun, be safe, watch out for ghosts. Here's something I've been "preparing" for a while. I had hoped it would have been done by now, but it's so tiny that it's really hard to clean. It can fit on a nickel, not sure the exact species. I think I broke it while pulling off a piece of icky stuff, oops :(!

Na na na na na na na na, bat skullllll!!!

Quickest 2-minute sketch of Pinki the bilby bobbing for a donut. I've seen this on old cartoons, do people really do it? Looks hard. She's stolen my costume too! Yikes, no planning on anatomy and messy coloring!

Mmmm, donut...

Posting while wearing a pith helmet, huzzah! Is anyone else dressed up?

Pig with warts that's not a warthog

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:09:09 GMT

Brush work looks so cool, I want to get better at it. I painted a Visayan warty pig. My plan seems to draw the weirdest rarest animals so my website will be the first hit when someone searches for them, ha ha! Warty warty pig!

I found my long-lost waterbrush (it doesn't have its cap though) after losing the replacement one I bought. I need to chain these things to the wall or something. I can't find my good set of travel watercolors now. Hate losing stuff!

Like Twitter, but longer and even more boring!

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:12:57 GMT

Tried to do a bit more music collection organization in iTunes. I can't decide on a genre for some of my stuff. Also, artists give me trouble on some things. Certain songs from movies or TV shows, especially animated, list the character singing as the artist. Others list the actor's/voice actor's name, and still others have some general thing like "Disney" or "The Simpsons". I've also noticed that some older albums' artwork still seems timeless and awesome, and some are so dated. It's the fonts mostly.

It was really hot today, like 95 or so. My bag of miniature peanut butter cups melted in the car and now I'm picking foil out of tiny smashed wads of chocolate and peanut butter.

They have leopard print everything in the world, except for socks apparently. Most likely because that is the product I'm looking for.

I felt like drawing. I found an old issue of Ranger Rick from 1984 in my closet with a cool article about animals painted on people's arms and hands, and cute pictures of musk oxen. I drew some musk oxen. I still feel like drawing; anybody got anything they want drawn?

Halloween is coming! Yay!

I can't sew, but I can design costumes

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:28:27 GMT

A few sketches to get in the Halloween spirit. Not scary, but a small marsupial in an unusual costume.

Bilby in a mock turtle costume!

I've Got 4, You've Only Got 2

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:00:31 GMT

Oh man, I love the Amelie soundtrack so! Perfect music to try to do art to. Apparently I sound like George Harrison because the only songs I can get 100% on Expert singing in Beatles Rock Band are George songs.

Here is my last picture, tomorrow I'll post up the story these are from. I realize I made a mistake on the umbrella one, oh well.

The grandest tiger...

Not British or Canadian

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:04:41 GMT

Another picture here; tiger in a red coat.

You CAN look good in horizontal stripes!

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:31:12 GMT

Banned Book picture number two at my blog. I do like painting tigers. Stripey stripes. Bonus poofy pants!

Sleep is for the Weak!

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:26:04 GMT

Insomnia, where would my internet posting be without you? Anyway, I decided to challenge myself to do a little project for Banned Books Week (which started today! Go and read some, you know you want to be bad!) Over here we have the first of what will be four teensy illustrations for a censored story. I really wanted to make this cartoonier but it seemed to stay my default kinda sorta realistic style with giant head and short limbs. Aw well, I'll have to work on that another time. Everything is lopsided and wonky because I can't stop painting while lying on my stomach on my bed with a cat walking around spilling water and putting their tail in my face.

Tune in tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday for the other paintings.

Now I'm cookin' with candy....

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:35:39 GMT

I should start a separate journal of reviews of bizarre Japanese candy! I have a huge weakness for weird snack treats from the Nijiya Market. I'll buy something because of a cute box (which is like 95% of Japanese stuff!) or a funny name or strange concept. This time, I bought something called "Popin' Cookin'". The box had cute tiny foods and things on it. Well, inside were 4 cubes that looked like pieces of gum, one silver packet of something and one sprinkle packet. Also, a tiny wooden rolling pin. Yup, I had to make my own candy!

The squares were really squishy and kind of sticky. They come in pink, blue, white and yellow. I made a sushi and then a bilby with a pineapple. Here it it, on the top of a Pringles can for size comparison. I was kind of fun molding it, but a lot of work.

The candy itself was strange. The flavor was like pink bubble gum, slightly different for each color, and the texture was like eating gum too. It kind of dissolved after a while. I didn't use the colorful sprinkles, but the silver pack had little crunchy colored things, like broken pieces of Nerds candy. I don't think I'll be buying this one again. Not like my chocolate tree stumps :).

Waterbucks are the only bucks I'm making!

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:56:15 GMT

A little doodley painting of some waterbuck can be found at my blog. I think they're cute because their noses look like hearts. They really do!

Boring

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:58:14 GMT

Why am I so fatigued lately? I haven't felt like doing anything. Oh well, I'm ready to join the world again.

Uh oh, I wore white shoes today, after Labor Day! I enjoy watching fashion-related TV shows and reading fashion magazines and articles online, but I don't do much in real life to be fashionable. Another shoe I'm coveting: some kind of peep-toe flat with leopard print. I'm a hypocrite because I wear leather shoes but I don't want an animal print on calf or pony hair.

I found these Donald Duck pineapple-apricot-papaya boxes, they're so fun! They have comics on the back.

Happy Birthday Michael

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:33:38 GMT

This video is good to watch today. Michael (and his brothers) looks so happy; they're acting like dorks but they know it so they're having fun with it. Magical shiny star shirt!

It's hot.

Spirals and bows

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:49:28 GMT

I made a little painting for my blog header. How I love drawing animals with hooves and crazy horns.

Step right up and see the two-headed antelope!

Some blogs have neat illustrated links on their sides. That would be fun, if I had more links. Or maybe it would look cluttered.

I like these shoes, but they don't have my size in the grape ones, which I want more than the brown.

I'm up too late...

Making Stuff

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:20:17 GMT

I saw the documentary Handmade Nation the other night. It was inspiring, I really want a button machine now! And the soundtrack is fun, with a saw as one of the instruments. Hmm, not much else to say for now. Good night!

Biggest Sailingest Lemur

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:37:21 GMT

I cruised a few art blogs last night, and found some examples of cute gouache paintings that looked like children's book illustrations. I can't pull that flat stylized look off, but I was inspired to make a small painting anyway!

A naval Indri in a tree! Hmmm, it reminds me of Donald Duck too.