So I was doing my computer backups today (just feel kinda unlucky for some reason so I thought it’s better safe than sorry) and I stumbled upon an awesome blast from the past for me. I was once part of an awesome World of Warcraft guild. I also became the webmaster and designed the site. One day I was bored and decided to “reward” active members on the forums be giving them their very own custom avatar. I took a screenshot of their character so I could get their skin color, hair, eyes, markings, etc correct and drew up a fun little picture for them and them alone. Usually I tried to make them a bit quirky and in some cases there’s a story behind them The drawings took about a couple hours each but I had to wait until the perfect inspiration hit before making something.

Here are 17 of the avatars I made until work and other projects got in the way.

PS. I was the Moonkin.

Wow Avatars

Holy Fazoli!

Where has all the time gone. I spend all this precious brain juice on setting up a site and poof, the minute things get hectic at home my updates disappear.

SO what have I been doing?

I MOVED. It took a while to pack the house, find a new one and all that guff but it’s done. I went from Champaign IL to Austin TX. I must say I absolutely LOVE this place. I guess I was a sun child and didn’t even know it. Bye bye snow I hope to see you never again. Things are almost unpacked enough for me to be able to relax and start doodling again.

Villainous Victorian Velociraptor has finally bit the dust She was a good design and lived longer than all of my earlier designs PUT TOGETHER. So I’m getting somewhere! I haven’t really submitted much since, but I hope to soon.

I’m still loving PatchTogether. It’s a site where you can get your designs created into toys if they like it enough. They had a call out for themes and I threw out “Steampunk”. Guess what . . .THEY LIKED IT. Now for the month of July the theme will be Steampunk. I think this is the first time where people had a month to come up with their designs so I’m expecting a lot of awesome. I really took my time with this entry and modeled it in 3d to get all the details just right. I can’t wait to post it. It might be a little more expensive than the average at PatchTogether but I assure you it’s different .

~Cheers!

And thanks to Wolfie for poking and rawring me back to life

I’ve got another design up at Patch Together! This time it’s “Minion”. Hopefully soon I won’t feel like I’m running around like a Mad woman and instead have time to flesh out a few of these characters. Minion was done in about an hour to go along with a quick contest at Imaginism.com. Bobby Chui was interviewing one of the Writing Directors of the movie “How to Train Your Dragon” (excellent movie btw) and they wanted people to create something quickly using the theme “Goth Dragon”. I didn’t want my design to be so narrowly focused to I used some goth ideas and abstracted them out a little. Enjoy! If you’d like to vote for him (I know I’d like you too) Click on the picture!

Minion

It’s LIVE! I want to thank work for giving me the OK to work on this on the side as a not-for-profit donation of time to a not-for-profit cause. I did the art for this while Bart Wyatt did the programming. Enjoy! The goal is to teach kids about financing using www.Lemonadeday.org as the backdrop

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Where have I been oh what have I been doing . . . It’s been over 3 weeks since I posted here and it’s been that long since I had time to submit something to Woot. I’ve been working on a not-for-profit side project (links coming soon!) and just getting my house in order. But enough with that right now, here are some new shirts!!

Superhero Stegosaurus Saving the Species!!

The Villainous Velociraptor’s weapon of mass destruction was launched from his spy satellite and it was heading directly for Dino Central!!. Superhero Stegosaurus managed to intercept the nefarious thunder lizard’s plan and destroyed the meteor before it had a chance to cause massing damage across the World!

I figured I should make a companion to my other dino shirt. Enjoy!!

I also want to give a big shout out to my office-mate who helped me brainstorm out the idea

I imagine this is the initial look that most imps would have when Hell finally freezes over. I’ve wanted to work on this concept in other ways, but for now it’ll be a tshirt design

New theme. . .  For some reason I’m not really foaming at the mouth to get this derby going. Am I getting burned out from drawing? I pretty much do it everyday (just don’t post stuff up very often). Maybe I’m just not willing to stay up til 2am again Either way, here’s my entry for tomorrow. A nod to one of my favorite arcade games  Seems like Ken . .err, the red betta fish has the better combos!

K.O.