Apple Slice

"Apple Slice" 8 X 10, Oil on Canvas

Vampire Protection

"Vampire Protection" 8 X 8, Oil on Canvas

HAHAHA I love my name for this one! I hate naming things by the way, so I don't really take it seriously or I just name it what it is.

Any whoo, here's some garlic! I'll be starting my daily paintings tomorrow, I've set up shop in my sisters walk-in closet! Its freaking huge!! I'll take some pictures and put them up.

DOOM!

I had a dream back in like, April, that actually formed a cohesive story and was chock full of things that I adore. I got super-excited and wanted to do all this cool stuff with it, but it fizzled. That happens with a lot of my personal projects, like the story of the little girl (most of you probably know about that one). I guess it's hard to do work when I'm the only person I need to appease? Anyway, here's the only drawing I've gotten out of it so far: the castle where pretty much everything occurs.


And the post is labeled DOOM because we're going off the grid over here. Moving to a new apartment (mailing address is the same since it's a box) and we have to get the internet turned off here and turned on there. The internet is going in Joachim's name, so for anyone who knows him they shouldn't be surprised to hear it's already turning out to be a huge cluster****. Who knows how long we won't have internet, so if you got something to say, call me!

Bitten

"Bitten" 9 X 12, Oil on Canvas

This one here, well I'm not really sure of the sequence of these. If it came after or before my last post "Sprinkles". But one or the other was a in response to the other. "Sprinkles" wasn't nearly as much paint and texture as this one. Experimentation!

More patterns!

The first one shouldn't really count since it's just stripes. But I put in the effort to make it (took longer than I thought...) so by Jove I'm including it here.



A lot of this is looking at other patterns. The whole "making patterns from scratch" thing is pretty new to me so I gotta get inspiration elsewhere. I guess that's the creative process? *shrug*

Repeatable pattern!

Since there's been a revival and everyone else is getting in on the act, I want to be cool too, so I'm posting. I've been getting into graphic design stuff lately, so here's a repeatable pattern.


You could say it's based on the background of the new (and beautiful!) sketchables, but.. it's really not. It IS based on a pattern I found, though I had to make it my own since the image was so dang small I couldn't really make it out - which is fine by me. Makes it more original I guess. I'll probably do some more of these cuz it was relatively easy, and pretty fun.

Sprinkles

"Sprinkles" 8 X 8, Oil on Canvas

Hey all!! Here is a painting from a week or two ago, I can't remember. All I know is I've moved since then. I have a bunch more from my week of painting in Sarasota but I've decided to post one at a time until I get my paints set up. I think This one is my least favorite from the bunch, the background is just to plain to me, especially the plain that the cupcake is sitting on, it needs more texture and change of color.

My latest

Hopefully the beginning of an onslaught of work to be able to post/sell/hang up on the wall



Iris in Salisbury - Acrylic

I am ... BATMAN

i know its not a drawing, but BATMAN!!!

character Design for ice cream book

Here are the two character in the story I wrote. What do you think? I want to keep it fun and whimsical.

For kicks and giggles.

Ok Well I be busy and have draw anything on my own in a really long time been mostly drawing for other people. But I want to start again. For kick and giggles I wrote a little story that I came up with one day while I was working. I get a lot of random ideas in my head and for once when I got house and after unpacking a little I wrote a story.

Called "Papa Herb’s Ice Cream Parlor." I going to illustrate it for fun!!!! Please let me know what you think.

Papa Herb’s ice cream parlor is a small quiet place with the kindest ice cream man there is.

One day a little boy came in with a coupon, which said, “get one free make your own ice Sunday.” The little boy handed Papa Herb the coupon and he said to the little boy ”well, well, well, aren’t you a lucky little boy.” You get to have what ever your little heart desires on your ice cream Sunday.

The little boy thought for a little bit and then told Papa Herb, “ I want the biggest ice cream Sunday you can make me!” Papa Herb started to laugh. He thought to himself how big could this Sunday really be? For kick and giggles Papa Herb got his biggest ice cream Sunday bowl he had.

“Are you ready to make your Sunday?” asked Papa Herd to the little boy. The little boy nodded his head and with a great big smile on his face he yelled, “ Yes, Sir!”

“Ok then let begin” said Papa Herb.

“I want Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla ice cream, also some Mint Chocolate Chip, Peppermint Stick, Rocky Road, Butter Pecan and Peanut Brittle. Some Peach, Blackberry, Moose Track and Sherbet ice cream,” the little boy said enthusiastically as Papa Herb ran around all over the ice cream parlor trying to keep up with the little boys demands.

I want hot fudge, hot caramel, butterscotch. Strawberry, and pineapple toppings as the boy toke a big breath before he continued. Sprinkles, snowcaps, gummy bears and gum drops, licorice and chocolate chips and also don’t forget whipped cream and five cherries if you please.

Papa Herb was tired exhausted from all of the running around but finally finished the biggest Sunday in town. The Sunday was so big that Papa Herb asked for help to carriy it to the table so the little boy could sit down.

Papa Herb went back to his counter as he watched the little boy to see if he could finish this creation. The little boy licked his lips and took a scoop full of ice cream from the very top, in which was his very first bit.

All of a the sudden some thing odd just happened the little boy got up from the table where he was sitting. Papa Herb was so confused. Did he forget an ice cream or a topping? He was so sure that is put five cherry on top what could it be?

As the little boy got to the counter Papa Herb started to panic.” Excuse me sir, Can I please have a box, I am stuffed?”

New paintings

Ok so I'm going to try and paint everyday, so I'm going to paint small paintings of fruits, vegtables, wine bottles, cupcakes, so on and so forth. hopfully one a day... we'll see!

This first one was done a little while ago but still recent. Vincent says they look like they are on trial... a cupcake trial!



This one was very recent, just some kiwi's. Duncan already posted it, but I figured I would as well. Thanks D! Gotta get back into painting a lot so I can get good and start selling work.

New Theme

Wow, Sketchables is alive?

Here's a new theme inspired by the new movie "Dark Knight". BATMAN.

I'll be working on the blog a bit, making it look nice, and once August comes around (just around the river bend) I'll be posting a lot more.

Painting @ the house

Jeremy and I are living together again for a month and we decided to re-arrange the house for producing as much art as we can before we move out.

Statement of Purpose

Been a while. So I've been doing some exercises lately that are meant to help one determine what they are meant to do with their life. After coming up with a singular statement that epitomized what my purpose is, I decided to use it as a subject for a design exercise. I wanted to see what I could do using a single font (in this case it's Avenir) and see how interesting I could make it with very few graphic flourishes. So this is what I did.


It's OK, pretty basic in my opinion, but there was no scheme I was working with, just figuring it out as I went. I'll be doing some graphic design proper soon though; I intend to buy a couple magazines and take a shot at doing some sample page redesigns.

Logo

Yo it me. My dad asked me to make a logo for him which haha anyone who know me I have no idea what I am doing when it come to text. but this it was I came up with so far.

FACES!!!!!

Computer head!

Here's other nonsense design I did.

















And here is a sample of how the crane will look like. :)

Crane for 2008!

This is a design I did for a screen print...it's going to be printed by my own frickin hand on a shirt...maybe a couple of shirts...who knows. But right now I am having a hard time doing, because I'm using photo emulsion method, and it's not turning out right for some reason. Ugh! Stupid!!

Happy 2008!!!

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Happy Late Turkey Day!

It's the day after Turkey Day and I am retardedly tired! How was everyone's day off yesterday? Hopefully it was a good one. My family and I had prime rib roast instead of turkey because we were all sick of eating turkey (even though it's only once a year... or two - Xmas.... OR everyday at Disney just eating away the legs!) and my mom is out of town and won't be back till Monday. ... And I love how annoying it can get when Firefox tells you when you spell something wrong. But anyways, I think my grandma wanted to have a traditional Thanksgiving but my dad and I said screw turkey because turkey's turkey...~! So, the prime ribs were WAY better and delicious. YUM! =) Other than that, it was a durn quiet evening yesterday and at times felt really awkward. Don't know why, but this year, everything just seems more quieter than other years. Has anyone ever notice that or is it just me?

Anyways, I think I will end here as I am falling off my seat oh ever so slowly and eyes about to pull the curtain, and listening to really soft music mixed with bad ass traditional Japanese music doesn't help... Rin' ... Check them out. They are really good. :) ... I feel like I'm writing a letter or something... a blog! Holy cow I'm becoming one of them bloggers!!! Must end~!

Ps. I'd like to share this picture that I took with you guys... I don't know why, it just popped up in my head to post this picture. It's a shopping cart parking lot. LOL... Only in Asia~!

oh my gawd

Something based on the current theme! When does that ever happen??

This time it's a cowboy. He's not a sheriff, just a landowner tired of cattle rustlers and cow tippers? Hope y'all like it.

Another figure drawing

After a week of canceled sessions, I'm finally back on the horse (literally...) and drawing again. Yay.

Report advertisement

So I finally finished the illustration I'd been working on. I had thought of doing something fun with the cropping/format, something thin and tall perhaps, but I remembered that this is supposed to be a magazine advertisement. It's 8 1/2 x 11, which I'm not terribly sure are actually typical magazine dimensions, but it's a format that, if nothing else, presents similar challenges.

I'm also including a close-up, since the full image above doesn't do justice to the detailing on the boots. It was a lot of hard work doing the patterning and stitching, but I think it was worth it in the end.

this is MY fashion statement!

How fashionable

So I'm working on a personal illustration; my friend Rhiannon (a friend to several of this blog's contributors) and I challenge each other with projects to work on and -- I'm bored of typing this already.

It's a fashion-type illustration for these boots: HERE

So here's some thumbnails:
I must note, I knew I was going to throw in some graphic elements but they weren't focal so I just left them out in most steps.

Here's the drawing I took to tight:
After some discussion both of us agreed it was good (though there was some things like her face I would change once I made the jump to computer) but that there were better directions to take it, figure-wise.

Here's the updated tight drawing:
Final art will prob rely heavily on this linework. I'll composite in the graphic elements from the original tight.

Lastly, another fashionista drawing I did before this project started, cuz why not:

Green Girl

Yey... I'm being productive!
This is a simple and rough looking. That's how I wanted to be.

Mr. Bot says...

Acrylic on toned sketchbook

new website

will there no images that I am posting but I have new I made a New website and it is upand running right now. It toke me a while because I had some trouble uploading to the server but it up now and running. tell me what you think of www.katiebrooksillustrator.com

NEW THEME

Draw a Cowboy, and an Indian... or just a Cowboy, or Indian.... or maybe an Indian boy riding a cow? Or an Indian dressed up like a cow scaring a boy? the possibilities are ENDLESSSSSS

Painting Jamaican!

OK so, I'm still alive/painting. This portrait is of a kid in Jamaica who lives at the Salvation Army's children home called the nest. I'm going to scan it once it dries. I'll also rename it to his name once I remember/ask someone at work.

"Jamaican" Oil on Canvas, 16x12

I'll get around to commenting on everyones posts and change the theme later tonight, or tomorrow. Have a great day!

My nana;s B-day card

My nana is turing 85 and my dad and my unlces are having a big party on thanksgaving and wanted me to many the invation out for it will this is the front that I made for the party they didn't give that much time to work on it but I want to change the text and make it more a thansgining car I not sure yet what to do with that but this is want I have soon far what fo you guys think?

Bunny in the garden

Well I been working on this for a little bit now. My mom asked me to do this for a good friend of the family who been fighting skin cancer again and not to long ago they found a little hole in his heart which he had to get opporated on. Well Any how this person when we where little alway had this really nice gardens and but the bunny's would alway come and eat all the vegetables which he would alway complaining about. you have the image without the boarder and one with a boarded I just felt like posting both.

FEWS HAS STARTED!! YAY!!

not my best proportionally but i don't think i've done a better portrait in pencil (or many portraits at all, really). I was mostly concerned with the values here and Duncan and I were VERY hungry. The pig skull(?) is from my drawing class so i didn't really get to finish it, but i like it.

If I die today

know that it was not unexpected.



What else would you expect if you got this in your fortune cookie at lunch?

To the "unexpected idea"!!

I am guessing that you guys have no clue to what I'm doing or I'll be doing. So let me explain:
At first, my idea was to have two ladies, one looking all nice - aristocrat - look, wearing a luxury dress, fanning herself away. Second lady would be dealing with dark magic type kind of thing (I know cheesy cliche), with smokey figured skull coming out from her hand, wearing nice little black renaissance dress type. .. Yea.. But then my idea from that completely changed to something else much more fun. There is a theme going on to it too. I'll be doing the 4 elements (yes cliche stuff again) with a fan - accessory - in each elements. :D But I won't discribe how it's going to incorporate with the figures. So Hah! You can image that yourself, cause it's more fun that way. XD Oh and.. the background is going to be awesome too... if it comes out right!

P.S. I love how Jason leaves such long ass comments to most works and leaving a second comments after the first. :D

An Unexpected Idea

my gestures

Hey everyone, here is a small collection of gestures from over the past year. like? dislike? please let me know!

My little girl!

Ah, my precious Sun-Yung. For maximum effect, look at this while listening to the opening theme "All The Way" from the anime "Kino's Journey," it's f*$&ing perfect (despite the fact the song is Japanese while Sun is half-Korean...)

I should perhaps explain a bit, for those not in the know. I created this character Sun-Yung Park back in sophomore year and have developed her and her family over the intervening years. It's been a long time since I've drawn Sun, and it's made me realize how much I miss the story! I'm going to have to revisit it and continue working on it. I do plan to actually finish this graphic novel...

Eventually.