Made: First Day of School - updated

While I loved how the conjoined twins themselves turned out, the drawing just felt unfinished so I added a background.  What do you think?

Made: First Day of School

I stayed up too late last night because I had a doodle in my head that I needed to get out.

I call this "First Day of School. "  :)

If anyone is interested in a free print, just let me know and I'll get some made up. :)

Craft Along with GIY: Things with Wings (Wing Bats)

Every month, Bane at Goth It Yourself hosts a fun craft-along. This month, the theme is Things with Wings. The very night before, I got to watch a handful of bats playing at dusk which is a rare treat where I live so I knew right away that I wanted to draw a bat picture with my own silly twist. :)

I made the wings on the bucket purple in honor of Bane.

I actually drew this the weekend before last and decided that I needed to use it to send Halloween cards to family this year with the words "This Halloween, Eat, Drink, and Be a little batty!"

Also, in honor of the fact that I have 10 followers now - yayayayay! - I also had some 5x7s printed.  So if you'd like a print, just let me know and I'll send you one! I'll even mail it internationally.  Just send me an email at happyartistgirl @ gmail.com with your address. I promise to not send spam or share your info. :)

7 of 10 prints left

Shared: Wedding - Save The Date Cards

Today our Save The Date cards are going out in the mail.  Yay!  I'm so excited!  I designed and drew this myself to fit with the comic book aspect of our wedding.

Designed and drawn by ME! :D

Because we are getting married close to Yule/Christmas, we wanted to give people a head's up so they can plan accordingly.  We would have preferred to get married on 12/21 (the solstice) but that's in the middle of the week and too close to Christmas.

We don't have any specific theme for our shindig so it's incorporating stuff we both like: comic books, rainbows, my Bearly Dreadfuls (a few of them were posted here), and tacos.  Yes, tacos and not just for the food. More about all that in a later post!

I guess we unofficially decided our "theme" was just going to be stuff we liked and I wanted our Save The Date to give a little sneak preview. :)

Made: past Christmas/Yule gifts

I have always been my most happy when I am doing something creative, whether it's drawing, doodling, sewing, painting, cutting shapes out of bits of paper, cooking, or arranging Skittles into patterns or pictures.  When I am making something, all is right with the world and my heart.

A bonus to this innate need I have, it's a great way to save money on gifts for people!  I love receiving homemade gifts (though it rarely happens) as much as I love creating something for the people I love.  I did that way back in college and got out of the practice once I was working and had more liquid finances.  After getting divorced a couple of years ago, it was the perfect opportunity to get into that practice.

In 2015, my obsession was drawing on my tablet so I drew things for my family, printed them out and framed the pictures.  People seemed to like them or were at least good at hiding their disappointment if they didn't!  Ha ha!

Here are my favorites!

Sister: she had posted a selfie of her and my 2 nephews on Facebook so I used that to create this:

Oldest Nephew: his birthday is 2 days after Christmas so I drew him 2 things and wrapped them separately so he could open one each day.  At the time, his favorite video game was Fallout 4 and his favorite TV show was The Regular Show so I did a mash up of those 2 things:

Younger Nephew: he was really into superheroes so I drew him as one!

Mom:  She was remodelling her kitchen with a Tuscan theme so I thought this was fitting.

Dad: Being from Minnesota and a football fan, this only made sense. :)

Andy (my fiance): He is a geek of all kinds (books, movies, comic books, music, etc.) so I did my version of Star Wars characters. :)

I'm sure yet what I'm going to make for gifts this year... hmm....