ugh

nothing is going right today.

here's a snail i made.

-marissa

happy valentimes!

yep, somehow i always manage to be single on valentine's day, but... ah, it's cool. i have awesome people and a movie to go to tonight, so it's all good.

i spent last night workin' on a valentines picture to post on my social networking sites, and according to my sibling it's "too flat." heavens above, i liked it that way, but i guess i'll have to spend this weekend messing with photoshop. 

here's, ah, here's the pencil sketch...

and he-e-ere is the final bedecked version!

all-in-all the whole thing took me nearly five hours to do. lots of layers. 
 
now get out there and fall in love,
-marissa

two bad walters

mornin' blog!

tomorrow's valentines day. oogh. 
i've got classes today, and then a galentines day party later tonight. i'm excited to sip wine with some ladies and watch bad television. i imagine that's what we'll be doing, but... well, i'm not exactly sure. 

anyway, last night i had an adventure. i used my tablet! so yeah, i was going to do another watercolor, but, well, i was just a bit too lazy for that.

i did some sketches of one of my heroes-[walt disney]- and picked one that i liked. 

a-a-a-and the-e-e-en, i colored it. haha. not too terribly exciting, i'm sorry.


anyway, hopefully you're all having wonderful weeks of love. or whatever you call valentines week. [i call it the valentimes.]

stay beautiful
-marissa

bleep bloop blop

what even is a "mood piece"? 

i'm working on drafting and inking my graphic novel page for this week, and it's so... difficult. i don't normally do really artsy things, i mean... well, last time i tried to create a real, ahem, "emotional" piece, i actually ended up freaking out before i could present it. 

anyway, this isn't an "emotional" project i'm working on right now. it's just an artistic represetation of what i do when i'm up late at night. and that's why it's titled "what i do when i'm awake at night." i always was a fan of self-explanatory titles. 

uhm, but, yeah. so, here's draft one. i was pretty late last night writing out what it is that i do and then sketching the things i'd written. it's gonna change completely by the time i finish, but like, you know. might as well post the first draft for like, idunno, posterity. 

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UGH! what? WHAT. we had a fire drill before i could actually post my image. WHAT? here's the score:
college dorm: 1
marissa: 0.3


anyway, here's the friggin' image.

have a wonderful rest of wednesday!
-marissa

sketchy as fa-a-a-ah...

hey hey hey,

i'm starting to feel a little drained. spent all weekend doing college things, including spending time with a wonderful boy, going to midnight diners, and watching the puppy bowl. and then this morning, after being up late last night doing... what was i doing? i don't even remember. probably reading. anyway. i woke up early this morning. what the hell? i'm officially running at like, 32% efficiency. tomorrow i gotta get my butt up at like 8 so that i can go and animate, [which i love, but still. c'mon.]


anyway, so, here's some things i made over the weekend. there's a fella and a monster and a slightly phallic eew-y deschanel. bluh.

i've got a party this weekend, but dammit, i am also going to get some sleepy time!


stay beautiful,
-marissa

every day is self-portrait day

... in my heart.

yep. that's what i did last night. in honor of crushes and february-ness in general, i spent last night lovingly crafting this beautiful little blue watercolor rendering of what i look like when i see something wonderful. [like... cartoons, boys, french bulldogs, cute clothes, food, comic books...]

i wish i had that outfit like you wouldn't believe. also: yes. i am blue. constantly.

i love love, man. it just doesn't love me. but, you know, there's eleven days til valentimes. let's see if anything happens! 

so, yeah! uhm, i'm happy with this. the little heart-guys were drawn on with pen, and i like the look a lot. i was considering watercoloring them in, but... you know. whatever. cartoon me would obviously still want to be surrounded by cartoony-looking things. 


uhm... have a fabulous friday!
love,
-marissa

my work is a tattoo

he-ey.

yep, it's true! my friend loved my work enough to get it embedded in her skin. i think it's awfully flattering. it looks fantastic. so here, for my own selfish reasons, i will post all of the evolutions of this tattoo from start to finish. enjoy.

yep. it's on her thigh-butt. and, as i said before, i think it's fantastic. 
a lot of things happened today.

anyway, today was a gold-star day. 
i felt like Edward Bloom!

blah blah blah.

stay beautiful, 
-marissa