Take that, nightmares!

So I've been having dreams every night for the past month that have been ranging from mildly unpleasant to horrible nightmares. I had a particularly vivid one last night and the visuals were so strong I drew a few key scenes out(secretly using it to practice my photoshop painting skillz). If I'm going to dream every night, I might as well mine them for ideas. Here they are:


Once upon a time, a small detachment of mounted soldiers decided to get a message across to a neighboring country. most of the group stayed behind while two went ahead to scout territory.


I arrived on the scene just as the group of soldiers were turning around to go home. "What's going on? Why are you turning back?" I asked. "We don't work on thursdays" one of the soldiers replied.


I caught up with the two men at the shore of a dark bay with a land bridge that at one time crossed into the next kingdom. However, the ocean had taken its toll. (not pictured) about halfway across, the bridge turned to mud, and the two men and their horses had become stuck. By the time I got there both horses and one of the men had drowned.


When I finally made it to the remaining man, he was pretty stuck but we managed to get him out. as we were doing it, this freaky fish man kept circling us, looking like he was about to eat us. I tried to kick out but the water slowed me down, so I planned to keep my arms out of the water and hit it from above if it came too close. It apparently realized what I was doing, decided it was too much work for a snack and left us alone. I told the man to run for the cliffs, and safety.


Halfway up the cliff, I noticed that the man had been left behind me somewhere, adn the waters were now teeming with mermaids. They were very VERY dangerous, and I had a bad feeling they had taken the man. So I ran back to try and see where he had fallen in, adn this white mermaid reared out of the water to try to eat me alive.


I jumped in the water, despite the abnormally large albino mermaids, found the man, and dragged him back to the shore, using a reverse siren song(mostly just a bunch of half singing half yelling at mermaids) to fight off the mermaids.

and they all lived happily ever after...maybe.

Rima con...El Internet

I haven't done a Rhymes With segment in a bit. So enjoy El Internet and El Chiki Chiki on today's special spanish installment of Rima Con... I tried to find translations of both songs for non-spanish speakers(because they are much more enjoyable when you know what they are saying) but could only find the translation for El Chiki Chiki.
Get your Baila on.

El Internet, by Los Alguiens


El Chiki Chiki, by Rodolfo Chikilicuatre


I tried to find translations of both songs for non-spanish speakers(because they are much more enjoyable when you know what they are saying) but could only find the translation for El Chiki Chiki

Warrior Princess Up-do

I think these xena doodles are going to have to become a zine. or a series of prints. I made another last night for the produce cooler at work, but I haven't gotten around to scanning it yet. Also still plugging away at my comic, got four pages inked and ready to go. Hopefully I can get a large amount done over the next few days, since I'm going to get incredibly busy over the next month. More things later, I'm going to go bathe and eat something.

Today on the internet

So a friend of mine has a saying that goes something like "If you think of it, it exists on the internet." Today the Boyfriend demanded to see something funny, and I asked him what he wanted, and he responded "A Hillbilly Getting Tazerd!" One youtube search later, and we find A drunken hillbilly on a lawnmower getting tazered. Lordy.

Meanwhile, in their own words

There's been a lot of San Francisco posts over at laughing squid lately, which has made me a touch nostalgic. But nothing has made me straight up homesick until this post. Wendy Macnaughton's narratives and illustrations are incredible, and really give a feel for what I remember of living in the city (particularly the ones about the farmers market and the library). You can see the whole series here.

and now its off to breakfast, laundry, and more drawing.

time to draw!

Remember how I said I replanted a bunch of plants the other day? here they are, looking all cool with some fancy filters from my fancy phone thing. The future is now.

Also, I spent all of today drawing. WOO! got two whole pages inked and ready to go for Tip Top.

now, from that image you might assume this is a sea-faring, piratey ordeal. You would be wrong. There are a lot of cats.a ratio of about one thousand cats to every ass hole killed in this comic. it will make sense later, I promise.

Also, I like to pretend I'm Xena. You can tell it's me because I'm wearing glasses. Xena does not wear glasses.

Anyways, short update. Killing time waiting for the boyfriend so we can go get food and then go play Rockband at Ground Kontrol. I thought we were going to a concert tonight but it's not for another 2 weeks. I am a silly person.

I'm also a very hungry lady, so I might go down and forage for something in my scary fridge. send a search party if I'm not back in a week or so.

Mattias Adolfsson

Open publication - Free publishing

The above is a sketchbook from the swedish artist Mettias Adolfsson which I found via the blog Book by its Cover. It makes me want to draw all the time every day. One could easily get lost in his illustrations and never come back. The only thing that saved me was the fact that I haven't yet had breakfast, and there are some tasty leftovers drawing me downstairs. Anyways, I highly suggest visiting Mattias' bog as well as Book by its Cover, as both provide a fairly endless amount of inspiration.

I.Am.Your.Grandmamama.

First off, I got a late start to my day because I stayed up too late reading Dune and being a neeeeeeerd. drawing comics and things. Today I went to farmers market and got some new loverly plants! Some fancy basil(it's purple!) and some mint (it smells good!) and I replanted some older plants that looked very unhappy in their old pots. So now I have a whole little spot in my room for happy non-succulent plants. hopefully I don't kill them. I am also working on Tip Top(I know, I always say I'm working on shit and never have anything to show for it. it's because I'm afraid of my scanner(It requires sacrificial goats. very messy) anyways, I'm actually almost done scripting, character designs are mostly done, and I have two full days with nothing planned ahead of me. I AM GOING TO DRAW LIKE A MAD WOMAN.

Now for the real business:

this has been floating around the internets like internet herpes, and I'm doing my part to keep spreading it. It also keeps being described as nightmare inducing, but the tune is REALLY catchy. I mean, I wish it was longer. Anyways, I've already caught myself at work socking apples singing "I am your grandma ma ma! I am your grandma!" Not creepy, i swear.

Edit: oops, forgot to post this last night. oh well, not much has changed.

don't slurp, it's rude!

this is the best thing since Shower Products for Men