Chelsea likes to sew & draw!! CHECK IT OUT.

[loveandasandwich]

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Go to later pagess! My old work suuucks.

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[Mr.Delicious]

I think yousaa babbbeeeee

[Envisor]

My favorite is the last pic. Very simple detail yet it kicks so much ass. Cant wait to see some new stuff.

[loveandasandwich]

Mr.Delicious: I think yousa babe too ;)

Envisor: Thankssss, here's some new stuff for ya


I've been practicing faces a lot lately, only scanned a couple things..


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/chelsea1.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/chelsea3.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/chelsea2.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

very nice lips and eye studies, and that asian is awesome. sweet old dude too. you go draw more. practice practice practice practicepractice forever forevrververvevree

[grundybug]

cool, i like your style. My fav is the first one, although half of them didn't show up for me. keep em comin

GrundybuG

[Niva.]

Welcome to CA chelsea, thanks for dropping a comment in my SB.

This book has a solid start, good practices, keep hacking at it!

[loveandasandwich]

Thanks a lot all you guys, I'm trying real hard to get better, here's a ton of new stuff.

Some figure studies, some random face sketches, some drawings I actually really really tried on.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/Sketch.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch5.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch6.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch2.jpg
I hate when I draw things I like on lined paper. D:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch9.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch10.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch3.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/Sketch4.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch18.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch14.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

awesome, those last 2 are really good, I hope you're drawing naked ladies right now! practice! yesssss.

[scott marshall]

some real smart drawings!!
i think you should study more real life anatomy though!!!
cool cool!!

[loveandasandwich]

Mr.Delicious: I've been drawing TONS of nudie ladies. Tons.

scott marshall: Thanks! I take too long and get distracted too easily to be able to draw much in real life, my refs are all pictures I saved in a folder. I can when I force myself to sit down & focus, which isn't often.


Here's some old ceramics stuff I liked from high school, & my first project in 3D design this year. We had to make a lamp. He gave us wire and rice paper to use, but I chose not to use either. I made a baby lamp & night light.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/DCFN0014.jpg
Lights on


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/DCFN0018.jpg
Lights off! This looks much better in person. My camera is extremely terrible, and some light shows through the headphones too, I poked tons of little holes in them. Unfortunately, when I came into my class to hand in this project, the first thing I did when I walked in the room, was trip and drop it on the floor. Damn my clumy feet!



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/DCFN0009.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/DCFN0010.jpg
Night light. Wish these pictures were better. =(



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/1a0112ed.jpg
I forget the name of this technique, but it's when you twist or roll or stack colored clay around eachother and cut slices out of it, and then roll it into the slab of clay youre making into the piece. It's realllllyyyy fun & makes lots of interesting shapes.




http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/83fc73df.jpg
Mustachio lantern. He reminds me of the Pringles man.



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/9c6fd040.jpg





PS. Can anyone tell me how to upload the little thumbnail that shows up next to the sketchbook link? I thought I figured it out & I attached a photo to my first post, but I can't get it to work...

[VanDog]

i like this one !this sketch best of all
!!!good idea!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/3eba4a8c.jpg

[tokidokizenzen]

You have some interesting ideas. I really want to see more as your skill improves. Keep up the studies!

[DragonSnail]

I can see nice progressing from the start to end in this SB already, good work! Love those skateboard studies, very nice motion in them, but my very favorite gotta be the skeleton heads with legs at the start - adorable! :^^:

Keep it up!

[NicoRaven]

Thanks for commenting in my sketchbook! You have an How do you say " An out of the box" variant style Not nailed down I like it.

But I'd love to know what pencils/pens your using. My pencil combined with my drawing angle make my outlines harsh. Suggestions?

#Where is my mind is my Fave its gritty,dirty rough so its Great.

Laters

[moroi]

Neat-o baby lamp! Actually thought it was a Buddha statue at first. It's neat to see your progression of work through the years...Ach, it sounds like you guys did fun stuff in 3-D. We only ever worked with white cardboard...and then spray-painted white...again.

[loveandasandwich]

VanDog: Thanks! I definitely didn't work hard on it aaat all, but it's a pretty good idea.

tokidokizenzen: Thanks! I've been practicing as much as I can.

DragonSnail: Yeah, I can definitely feel myself improving a lot already. I'm noticing things a lot better than I have before.

NicoRaven: I use really cheap mechanical pencils, they have a good range of value to them, even though the lead breaks pretty easily. & I use fine black rolling ball pens, doesn't really matter what brand, they usually all work pretty good.

moroi: Thanks! Yeah I like my 3D class a lot, it's pretty fun. We had to make bridges that could hold 2 bricks out of only coffee stirrers & wood glue, that was my favorite project 'cause I made a sweet lightning bolt bridge.



I love drawing animals lately. Mostly... animals turned into people. Tried to practice some faces but I got bored and wanted to do new things. I got some drawing books too, but I've only glanced at all but one of them, The Artists Guide To Facial Expression by Gary Faigan. I learned a lot.

Here's some boring notes I was taking:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch26.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch25.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch21.jpg
Tiny bunnies. =)


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch22.jpg
Adorable sad kittens



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch23.jpg
I like how the girl with the sunglasses came out I think. I wish the scan came out better. =(


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch20.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch24.jpg
Two bears fighting with wayfarers(however you spell that) & head accessories. Sweet.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch19.jpg
Me as a panda, and Dave (Mr.Delicious (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67096&page=4)) as a grizzly.

[Zombie_dla]

Your earlier work is really stylish but I have to say that you're later work really stands out. You've done a fantasitc job with how you rendered fur and hair. There're some anatomical imperfections (but who don't? :P) but otherwise great work.This one is just simply beautiful (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketch20.jpg). Keep posting! :)

Ps. The mods prefer that we use the img-manager instead of img-tags.

[loveandasandwich]

Zombie_dla: What about them is anatomically incorrect? I'd like to know so I can maybe fix them, or remember it for the future. :) I like that one too, I noticed after I posted that one of the eyes is pretty noticably smaller than the other, I donno why I didn't see that before.

What's the img manager? Sorry, I'm new here.. :X

[Mr.Delicious]

what a wonderful little kitty. my favorites are the bears and the asian lady.

[CouchPotato]

Hey man, thanks for dropping by my SB! You got some great tuff here yourself! And you got some nice faces going (only thing I'm noticing atm, because that's where my focus is at now hahaha)

The img manager Zombie referred to is probably the attachment manager, which I think you're already using haha. It's really nice of CA to let us use their bandwidth this way. Most places, you seem to have to link to some other upload site.

Keep those pieces coming man! I can see a very clear and marked improvement as thing go along.

CP

Edit:
I want a mustachio lantern too D: it's awsome!

Oh and, the pic that Zombie liked, I think maybe the neck is too long? It's like, more than half the length of the head. Should be more like 1/3. Uhh, no, the shoulders is 1/3 head from the chin, so maybe slightly less than 1/3. So says Loomis anyway (blame him if it's wrong!)

[FlipMcgee]

Interesting graphical designs on top. Hope you'll develop it.

I like your ceramic works too. Ceramic sounds fragile. I've done some clay sculpting before and found it very hard and challenging.

Keep creating and update soon!

cheers

[loveandasandwich]

A cow babe & some self portraits:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0002-1.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0001-1.jpg




Hey, does anyone know how to fix the little icon on the thread? I can't do it. =(

[Mr.Delicious]

that cowbabe makes me happy in the pants.

[loveandasandwich]

A self portrait & some other random sketchbook pages:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies005.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies008.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies007.jpg



Kitties! :D
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies006.jpg


I loved the drawing of the little kitten so much I had to crop it out from the rest.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/kitty.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

mmm kitties, I like the lady screamin. your face looks a little squished, draw more more more!

kitties.

[jurffy]

It's nice to see u'r playing around with different facial expressions. Keep it up ! =D

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: Yeah, I always tend to make faces a little too short.

jurffy: yeah, ive been trying new expressions. i noticed i tend to only draw easy expressions, im trying to challenge myself more.



Skulls!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies013.jpg
The top one I did about two-three weeks ago, and the bottom one I did today. It's kinda cool that theres a noticable difference in that short of a time period.


Drawing people at the train station... it's so much harder than I thought it'd be. Damn people wouldn't stop moving. Plus I felt like a total creep staring at them.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies015.jpg


Work in progress... tiger stripes are hard =(
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies016.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

keep studying! and finish that tiger picture now! I love you lady!

[Megann]

I really love your style. It's very much alive. Sorry for being so vague, but I wouldn't know how else to describe it.

[VanDog]

better and better !keep it up!:an: :ai: :ac: :ae: :a!:

[Aslev]

Hi there, thanks for stopping by my sketchbook!
i think the skull study really shows improvement.

you asked me about suggestions for linework, it's quite hard to give a good answer really.. when i draw, i always start with a light pressure on the paper, and draw long loose lines to find something that i like.(this is referred to as "searching" the line) when i do find the line i want, i increase the pressure, and thus accentuate the line.

that probably just messes it up even more for you :)

naturally, this comes with mileage.. the more you draw, the better your linework will get!

[alesoun]

Hey! Don't worry about drawing people! Half the time they don't notice; the other half they think you're writing a diary or something, or think you're nuts and give you a wide berth......

[agelaos]

keep it up you're getting better and better.

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: It's still not done. D: I get distracted too easily, and the stripes frustrate me too easily.

Megann: Thanks! :D

notic: I'll try that, and different ways of creating a line, as soon as I get my anatomy down! One thing at a time or I'll go nuts. :D

alesoun: hahah, one guy definitely noticed me staring, and he was right next to me. he looked mad. I felt creepy.

agelaos: :D! i will!


A few things I drew today:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies033.jpg
This looks better in my sketchbook. D: The scanner took out a lot of the values.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies032.jpg
Terrifyingly hilarious little girl. I cut out a mustache from a magazine and glued it to her face. I donno, hahah



& I'm still working on this =(, I get distracted too easily. Hopefully I can just sit down and finish it tomorrow. I don't know what to do for a background yet.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies034.jpg

[Smoke]

Those tigers are brilliant.

[Donovan V]

wow. Its pretty cool to see your improvement. Oddly enough my fav in your whole SB is that first pic where the charictars is barfing the hearts up. Freekin great style to it.

Have fun!
D

[Mr.Delicious]

do more work on the tiger one! Is comin along real good. I especially like the one on the right. nice mustache too

[loveandasandwich]

Smokey186: Thanks! I still haven't gotten around to finishing it. D:

Donovan v: thanks dude, I noticed I improved a ton too, especially in drawing faces.

Dave: I will!.... eventually... eh... it'll get done. miss you.



30 second poses! Tons of 'em. They're not that good but eh. Any suggestions on how to make it easier?

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies037.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies038.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies039.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies040.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies041.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies042.jpg


I got 16 National Geographic magazines for a 1.50 last weekend at a tag sale, so I took full advantage of that & drew some mountain lions & other things...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies035.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies036.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies043.jpg

[agelaos]

haha, i love that old guy at the very bottom, very nice studies.

For your 30 seconders, I wouldn't pay much attention to the head, just make a quick circle or something and focus on the body pose. If you read some of Loomis's book you can also just use his stick figure method to draw some of them.

[Yacob]

Thanks for checking out my sketchbook. You've got great talent and have improved a lot. The picture with the woman and the 3 tigers looks really good so far.

[Mr.Delicious]

ouu, nice mountain lions, I like the top right one the most, that old guy is sweet too. I thought the scuba diver was a dude witha view finder attachted to his face haha.

[loveandasandwich]

agelaos: thankssss, I read some of Loomis's figure drawing book but I have the worst attention span. I'll get back to it sooner or later.

Yacob: thanks so much! :D

Dave: thank youuu...! i dont think i remember what a viewfinder is, but cmon it totally looks like a scuba man


Spent all night finishing this god damn thing, & I'm mad that the scan of this doesn't do it justice at all. It made her hair look all shiny & her skin look all choppily shaded, but it's not in real life! I promise. I messed around with it in photoshop to try and make it look right, but I still don't think it does. D:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/tigerbabe.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

I knew it was a scuba man, I'm just sayin at first glance. Anyways, awesome update chelsea, I love the tigers, youre really improving keeeeeeep going!

[TacticallyWacked]

Love the animals...tigers are great! The guy with the scuba mask is well done. Your pencil work makes me want to drop the pens and pick up the lead holder.

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: I am! I will! :*

TacticallyWacked: Thanks duuuude



Just a little summin summin I drew for my best friend for her birthday. I realize I look slightly terrifying. I drew this at 7am when I hadn't slept yet.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/nellieandi.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

haha slightly terrifying, I like it, your eyes seem a little off or something does. have fun at work! see you... someday :(

[maturin]

Hey there, thanks for the commment! It's nice to see people my own age on here lol. I like your work lots, spech the portraits, I like that you put lots of depth into them if that makes sense. Like.. they're quite dark shading wise which makes the highlights stand out more but also make the shadows really black.. so yeah! ace! Kitten is cute too, I like the eyes.

Um if I had to give critique, i think it might be that you need to make sure you get the proportions of faces correct, they seem to slip a little bit. I do the same! .__. try holding the drawing up to a morror, it really helps i think.

Rock on Against me! & Tegan and Sarah! hehe, I'll defo check back on this SB!

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: yah i know, my eyes are down too low or something, at least thats what it looks like to me.

maturin: Yeah, I feel like such a young one in this forum. it's a little intimidating. :D I tend to love to shade dark, it looks nicer to me. My proportions are a little off usually, I'm trying to work on it. & its awesome that you know those bands. :D


Started a self portrait today to replace the god awful one I did a couple years ago that's hanging in my house. These are just the lines, I tried to mark all the shadows, to see if that would help me:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies045.jpg


& something I doodled while waiting to get picked up that I liked. I tried to erase the dirty scan with my mouse on photoshop. D:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies046.jpg

[loveandasandwich]

Finished self portrait!


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies050.jpg

[agelaos]

Nice self portraits! Gettin better quick.

[Mr.Delicious]

hahaha, youre wearing the dungeons door necklace! I like it, came out real niiiicee

[Piranha Clan]

Hiya' miss thang. ;) Thanks for stopping by my SB! Yeaaayy for green tigers!!

Wowee, you are improving leaps and bounds from the word go. I love the stuff at the beginning of this thread, the cartoonish guys and the people of the fro'. Very quirky and original.

Even better is the progress you've made in wildlife and portraits. That last self-portrait is friggin awesome and the one with you and a friend(?) above it...good stuff.

But one of my favorites on the thread so far is the black woman with the tigers. Her face is beautiful, something about her expression blows me away. It's hard for me to look elsewhere in the piece, actually. Damn, I think I'm in love...is she referenced from something? The tigers are good too. One crit is that, as is, the tigers are all the same value scale and so they run together- hard for the eye to separate. I want you to push the values just a bit further on it, if you dare. I think that would take it to another level.

Great stuff here, I'll be watching for more.

[Jason Rainville]

Some really cute & funny stuff, with great portraits and studies, all showing improvement along the way. Nothing more to add really. You're doing what you need to be doing :)

[loveandasandwich]

agelaos- thanks! :D :D

Dave: yeah, I wear that necklace every day now haha. thanks love!

Piranha clan- Thanks so much! The lady is referenced from a photo, I haven't drawn very much from my mind lately. I want to get better at portraits so I get a good sense of what faces look like in my mind. I was gonna go back and touch up that drawing before I put spray fixative on it, since its getting all smudged in my sketchbook, so I will try to separate the tigers.

Rhineland- :D thank you!




Some cute things & nude ladies I drew yesterday:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies051-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies052-1.jpg
Just the lines for this lady, I'll shade her in today probably maybe

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies053-1.jpg

[johanson]

That's a good batch of sketches since April. Keep it up. The two fighting bears are great. Nice self portrait too.

-andrew

[Mr.Delicious]

Awesome kitties, awesome form studies! keep at it chelsea

[Sealegs]

Wow 28chelseaslater! i really like your stuff its fresh and full of style. Nice studies too! ill keep checking back for more! haha nice cats!! :meow:

[loveandasandwich]

johanson: thanks so much! :D I think the bears are one of my favorite ones too.

Dave: I willll <3

SeaLegs: Really? Thanks so much. I really like your art so that means a lot. :D



I've been studying Loomis's figure drawing book like crazy lately, but I won't bore you with all those pages. Here's some kinda finished stuff I did yesterday. Not much.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0003-2.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0002-2.jpg
Her hands & feet frustrated me to no end. So I just kind of gave up :(

[anubis713]

wow.
towards the end here, i was really impressed.
i am glad to see another feline lover.
your figure drawings are very well done.
keep it up.

:meow:

[Nom the puppet]

i really really like your style and the animorph people, please tell me you plan on developing it

[Jason Rainville]

Why is everyone calling me Rhineland lately?

Anyhoo, your naked ladies are looking awefully naked and ladylike, (<3 ) but I think you need to work a little bit on edge defenition. Not as in making a huge stroke around your subjects, but trying to keep at least that outer edge nice n clean.

rar /m\

[loveandasandwich]

Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeyeyeyeahyeah 2nd page party woooooooo -confetti- -party hats-

anubis713: awe thanks! and I do love drawin kittens. i love drawing them so i can stare at them and wish I had them for real. Is that sad?

Nom_the_puppet: I'll try! I've had a bunch of ideas for more animal babes to draw, I just never get around to actually doing it. Soon! ps. i like your work a lot. :D

Rhineville: Wow someone actually came back here more than once! :D youre definitely right though. I've been trying to make my lines cleaner, my hand always just wants to go over and over the same line. Trying to train myself not too.



Well here's a collage of myself I was working all last night on. Made out of all cutouts from magazines. It's a part of a present for my dad that my little sister & I are working on. She's making herself, & I did myself, & we're both making his face, & then cutting them out and putting them in a composition on a page with some other thingsss.
Well yeah anyways, here it is! heres my face. I cheated on the ear. :D It was too hard.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0004-1.jpg

[Nom the puppet]

ooo very cool ... where do you find the time to do all this stuff?

[kateoo]

I like the collage work - I saw an exercise on value and color in a book once that suggested that technique, but I never got around to it. I'll have to give it a crack now that I've seen how cool yours looks

[Piranha Clan]

Congrats on your 2nd page party, hope the hang-over's not too bad...

That collage is a great idea, he's gonna love it. I would be stoked to get something like that from my daughter on father's day!

[StoneFox]

I have to say, you are an amazing artist. It's really cool to see how you improve in every picture. I think I need to draw more now, you've kind of inspired me. Thanks and keep up the fantastic work!

[Niva.]

Hey chelsea, thank you very much for leaving a comment in my SB! I took a look at all your stuff and I like it. You had a huge dump in your very first post here and there's a definite improvement since then. I think you should continue to work on your drawing. When you take the time to shade your work it has a very good and unique look to it. I won't bother critting anatomy and proportions, because I think you're doing these things on purpose for style.

Speaking of style, I'm not a fan of artsy stuff like your last one, but that particular work looks cool, so good job!

[Mr.Delicious]

woohoo, youre way prettier than that tho. But it still looks real cool

[loveandasandwich]

Nom the puppet: I don't sleep much. :D Or watch any TV.

kateoo: Yeah, it was really fun actually. I'm thinking about doing another one soon, of just a random subject from my imagination. You should too!!!

Piranha_clan: He did love it! :D!! Happiness all around.

StoneFox: Awe, thank you so much! That's so awesome to hear. :D :D

n1va: Yeeeeahhh, I'm really impatient when it comes to... well... anything really. I need to work on that. But thanks so much! You should tell me next time you see mistakes. ;) I could use the crits.

Dave: Aw geeeeee, thanks love.



Here's the card I made for my dad for fathers day. It's cheesy, but he loves cheesy.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0008-1.jpg
Inside: I gotta have my pops!



I am so fantastic at not finishing things lately. The giraffe I just forgot the book it was reffed from, at my dads house. The other one... no excuses.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies056.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies054.jpg



Some cute animals & random fun facts woo.. ... !
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies057.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

ouuu really nice animal drawings, especially the giraffes! Gooo chelsea draw draw draw!

:D

love you

[loveandasandwich]

Thanks David! You're the best.


Not quite perfected portrait of my little sister:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies059.jpg

The original picture is here. (http://a176.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01192/57/16/1192506175_l.jpg) Crits are nice. :D

[Mr.Delicious]

I think the portrait loooks pretty good, can't really point out anything that off, looks pretty close to me! GOOOD CHELSEA JOB!@!!!

[loveandasandwich]

WATERCOLORS WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE!?!?

I started messing around with my little sisters watercolors last night.. they... are really fun.


So yay! Here's two things I painted last night:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies061.jpg


Reffed, obv
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies062.jpg



& something I forgot to post last night:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies060.jpg



:D I made a copy of the cowbabe & I'm painting it right now! Horray.

[Mr.Delicious]

I love your watercolors! do more chelsea! the ref one came out reallly good, KEEP GOING!

[bbassir]

Hey thanks for the comment! Great work! Your stuff is really expressive, especially when it comes to the color work. Keep pursuing the water color- that stuff is looking great. Personally I hate water color for the only reason that I know I'll never be able to grasp how to work with them. Really great animals! For some reason your animals look full of life, but when you get to drawing the human form there is a bit of a disconnect. Keep working on it and keep studying Bammes! Great job!

[Shobunkin]

I like those watercolors that you did in april. The woman smoking a cigarette looks totally awesome. Post some more!! Update new stuff! I love your style.

[lefran]

those last 2 paintings are great! especially the girl with sunglasses i think, id like to see more like that :)
Fran

[ArtznCraphs]

First time I'm seeing your stuff. I'm seeing not only the skill advancement as this thing progresses, but style development as well. That's a good thing to have happen. Doesn't work that way for everyone.

You asked earlier about 30 sec. poses. The best advice I can give is to think of what you want to capture before you sit down to draw. Do you want to capture the line of the spine in the various poses, muscle contours on the interior of the body, the position of the pelvis in relation to the ribcage and/or head, shadow pattern, etc. You'll use the time more effectively if you just focus on key ideas. You don't have to get the whole figure down.

[Windmaker]

Hey!
Your watercolour paintings are great! And your animal sketches are awesome:) Now I want to do animal sketches too.
Keep having fun now:)

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: Thanks! I WILL! <3

bbassir: hey thanks a ton! people arent my favorite thing to draw really, i get frustrated easily with human anatomy, especially when it comes to shading naked bodies. I get bored! Oh well, more animals for me!

shobunkin: thanks thanks thanks thanks i will!

lefran: there will definitely be more of that!

Artzncraphs: Thanks! I really just like drawing/painting things that make me smile inside.

Windmaker: Thank youuu!! You should. :D Theyd be lovely.



Two more watercolors from last night!


Painted cowbabe!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies064.jpg
Messy messy. Finding skin tones is hard. I like how the cowface turned out though. Wish I didnt color the background that way though.


African safariiii sunset from one of my animal books:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies063.jpg


Working on a baby tapir right now. :D

[Mr.Delicious]

WOO great sunset, watercolors are most likely your way to goooo.

LOVE YOU

[loveandasandwich]

David: Yeah, I guess so! i love you too <3


Baby tapir! WIP:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies067.jpg
Background isnt done & he needs stripes. I have to go back with acrylics and put them in because I didnt think this entirely through.


Sunset:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies066.jpg
I overworked the sky and I don't like it anymore. The bottom half of this looks nice though, I think...



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies065.jpg
Elephant seals!

[Mr.Delicious]

Elephant seals look awesome! Since when is each page 30 posts? I have like 12 pages now haha.

[Envisor]

Dang it!!!!!! Cant see any pics yet, the server must be down again. Ill come back later.

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: Yeah, what the hell. I want it back like the old way

Envisor: Try again! D:



Been pretty unmotivated to draw lately, donno why. I bought myself some new art supplies, a cute little 8 x 6 sketchbook and some really pretty tinted paper. All I've drawn so far is this hippo:

[Mr.Delicious]

WOOO Hippo! good stuff, don't stop chelsea!

[Piranha Clan]

Chelsea, you've been busy! Little sis' portrait's lookin' good, the giraffe is awesome, but those watercolors...BAM!! I think you just found a new medium you should master. Those are GREAT! The first one and the safari are sweet but my favorite is the smoking girl. That one is clutch. The hippo is right on too, your animals' anatomy and proportions are really very strong, well done.

Get motivated again, I need more!

[Windmaker]

Hello:)
Those animal sketches keep on being awesome:) Really nice linework on the elephant seals.
Keep having fun:)

[Henchman 21]

killin me with that cow babe. totally rad. diggin the animalss well.

[GriNGo]

that baby tapir is nice!, and so is the hippo. Nice studies you got here man. I'd like to see the elephant seals colored as well (if it's possible of course :P)

greetings!
GriNGoLoCo

[loveandasandwich]

:O Four pages!! Not as exciting now since each page is about half the size as it was before. Oh well.

Yay comments!

Dave= Thanks love! I'm trying not to. =)

Pirahna Clan= Not as busy as I should be! I could be doing much much more. I do love watercolors, although its a little more of a ordeal to set up than it is just to grab a pencil and start drawing. But I do like it a lot. :D

Windmaker= Thanks duuude, I will!

Dan= Hahah, I'm definitely gonna make some more animal babes soon. I'm thinkin, panda babes. Maybe koala babes. Who knows!

Gringoloco= Thank youuu! Maybe I will. I dont know...hmm


I bought me a book on watercolors! Its pretty great. I've learned a lottt so far. I've mostly been practicing brush strokes, washes, etc. Not anything really exciting to look at.
Except I did do this SHARK!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies070.jpg


Gonna paint me some landscapes tonight, skies mostly. Mine need work.



and... PANDAS!!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies071.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies072.jpg
I'm gonna draw her a friend. angry tiger girl, possibly.



& a tshirt idea for one of my friends:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies069.jpg
Gonna go on a light/baby blue tshirt. I like it. I'd wear it. Would you?

[Mr.Delicious]

nice shirt design and SHARK! SHARK WEEK! I hope thats why you painted it. But even if thats not the reason its still sweeeeet. I like the panda babe and panda love. You should wear that panda make up for me ;)

[Mr.Delicious]

I like the second one, the first is kinda blotchy though. I will wear the tiger make up

[drd]

Shark Week is an awesome week on the Discovery Channel where every show is about nothing but sharks. I LOVE IT

It's soooo great

Anyways

The shark you did paint was very nice, I liked that the most out of all the stuff on this page. The last ones are interesting, definitely a different style. I'm sure they could be great simple pieces if the darks were pushed really far, lights brightened, etc.

Thanks for the sB comment. I appreciate it, =P

[Jason Rainville]

There's so much cuteness to be had in here my manliness comes into question each time I visit. But there's a hot cow chick in here, so it all balances out.

Watercolours are looking good, ever think of taking more time on one particular one and really getting into some detail? I don't know watercolours from my own ass so I don't quite know what to suggest, but I've seen people use gauche (?) for details and it always adds more 'punch' to it.

Anyways, shine on :blahblah:

[loveandasandwich]

Dave= The more I look at those sky paintings, the more I hate them & the more I just wanna burn them or just take them off here. Theyre pretty awful.

drd= WHAT! for real? that sounds awesome. I need to get on that and watch tons of sharks. <3 whale sharks & hammerheads Yeah I probably could have gone further with those but it was half frustration of not getting it right and half me being too tired to want to really paint.

Rhineville= hahah, everyone can use a little more cute in their life, i think! Yeah I read a lot about gouache in the books I got, but I went to go look for it at Michaels, where I work, & we didn't have any! Some kinda craft store we are.




Got called into work when I was still in my pjs, so I didn't get to draw/paint what I wanted to tonight. Here's the lines for one drawing, gonna try and shade it before work tomorrow. Hopefully.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies077.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

No changes have been made! I have the same crits as before! Hurry and finish it! MORE MORE MORE!

I love you!

-David

[loveandasandwich]

David: Yeah, I didn't feel like scanning it again after I made the changes you told me to.



Well, here it is finished! I like it. The goggles need to be fixed, but thats another day. I need to wake up early tomorrow =(

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies078.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

Wooo, I like this one a lot, it came out really good. youre gettin better at rendering, stay steady chelsea.

I love you!

[iceman478]

YOU HAD ME AT THE GIRL WITH THE BIG BLack mustache VERY COOL STUFf ....very clean pencil work very cool

[Yacob]

I like the latest stuff you've done. The watercolors are awesome. I really like the african safari one.

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: Thanks love! I'm trying to practice =\

iceman478: thanks so much duuuuude, my pencil work isnt that clean, it was on the last one but it could definitely be cleaner. =)

yacob: Thanks! I hate my last two watercolors with a passion. My mom loves the safari one haha



A sketch I did on my lunch at work, and then colored when I got home.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0002-3.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

ha, sweet animal page, cool break sketch too! Wheres the wolf you were drawing?! I wanna see it goddamnit!

LVOESLADMVLASVDV<3

[Bartovan]

Hi, it's lots of fun going through your sketchbook! You made some great progress in figure drawing. Some great animal studies too! Keep going!

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: Thankssss, I dont like how a lot of them came out on the animal page, but I was just trying to learn. I dont wanna finish the wolf!!!!!

Bartovan: Horray, that's what I'm aiming for! Fun. :D I definitely will keep goin




The david of my life:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies079.jpg
This had some fantastic neon highlighter colors around his head & on his glasses but my scanner just refused to show it, no matter how much i adjusted the brightness or contrast. Sad. D:

[Mr.Delicious]

the tissue paper goggle girl looks awesome, i never really seen anything like it befoore.good work!!!!!

[Niva.]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies078.jpg

That is really well done, excellent shading, you're improving so keep hacking at it. I like the original b/w sketch better than the colored collage you posted after that sketch but that's just personal taste.


This one (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0002-3.jpg) also looks good but make sure to draw the entire head first before you put hair on it. Right now I think the upper part of the skull should buldge out a bit and not blow away with the hair hehe. Also the neck looks strange, it may not be wrong but we don't have enough of a reference to really tell what's going on with the rest of the body. Anyways, I'm preaching about the same mistakes I make all the time... but don't do as I do!

[loveandasandwich]

David: Hey thaaaaanks

n1va: Thanks a ton! Yeah, I'm not so sure how much I like that girl with the tissue paper added to it. I just really loved that tissue paper & thought it was hilarious so I had to use it somehow! Yeah I agree that the neck looked weird. I wasn't really thinking about making it look real when I was doing it, kinda just drawing for the sake of drawing.



But yeah anyway, here's some recent stuff that I didn't dislike. I could have uploaded this stuff awhile ago, I donno, just chose not to.


Present for David hahah:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0004-2.jpg
His eye looks a little close to his head? Whatd you guys think


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0008-3.jpg
Needs fixing. I really want to fix this because I like how I did the background a lot.



Had some flower stickers:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0009-1.jpg


& three watercolors from today. As good as I started off with watercolors, I am really starting to hate them. I want to layer and blend so bad, I just wind up making things look dirty and uneven. Might try out some acrylics. Dont know if I have the patience for oils.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies083.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies082.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies081.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

Woo, go watercolors! Those skies you do look really pretty, like pretty much all of em. I also enjoy me staring at the wolf, becoming one with eachother. I wanna see you work in other paiints, likeeeee acrylics and oils and egg shit.

keep on trucckin
-David <3

[drd]

I agree that the rendering on that goggle portrait was a step up, looked really nice.

Anyways, Shark Week is this week, it started today, if you want to watch. I am. =)

[Windmaker]

Woo! Great... slightly blueish shark! I love your animal drawings... :)
And the watercolours are going along real well!
Cheers! And keep having fun:)

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: I think I really wanna learn oils. Looks easier than watercolors cause you can go over it as much as you like!

drd: oh crap! totally forgot about shark week. i missed it =( oh well

windmaker: thankssss so much! i will always have fun. :D




been taking up sewing, embroidery, what have you, ill have some pictures of that soon. but ive been doing portraits too, not as much as ive wanted, but here's what i got so far!


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0001-3.jpg
Self portrait. Supposed to be not serious!! haha


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0002-4.jpg
Friend Corinne



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0003-4.jpg
David of my dreams. From life. Kind of rushed cause I didnt want him to get bored, & he was laughing at my concentration faces =(


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0004-3.jpg
Friend John



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0005-1.jpg
Random little girl from intranet.



more soon!

[Jason Rainville]

More cutesy-pootsy eh. Little girl with goggles as everyone said is showing improvement in your stuffs. Really like the twiggy watercoloury pic. Though your rendering is nice, remember to nail the placement first; friend John's nose is a wee bit off, and his eye looks like it might be floating away.

:)

[Mr.Delicious]

My favorites are the little girl and you, john has some things off like rhine said. I look FUCKIN SLAMMIN. Keep on roooccckkkiinnnnnn chelssseaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[StarbonesCoffin]

Whoa, huge spec she got there ! Cool and nice, more :D

[Darktwin]

Your drawings have really improved since you've been posting. your rendering skills have improved, and I love your creative mind, very fresh and unique, keep posting please, your work has a unique energy to it.

[loveandasandwich]

Rhineville: You love my cutesy pootesy things! admit it. maybe these bears are more your manly style. Yeah I did and redid Johns face so many times, his face is really disproportioned.

David!: I dont think you look so slammin. I can do better! I will do better! Hey next time you come I'll try again. Maybe from a not straight on angle too. chea.

StarbonesCoffin: Thanksss! here's more!


Darktwin: Thanks so much for noticing, I've been trying hard. I'll post as often as I can!





okay well firstoff, I just wanted to show everyone this amazing sketchbook find. Goodwill... one dollar. Pretty good paper. AMAZING COVER. Look at it:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies085.jpg
Why someone would ever give this up is beyond me.




OK so here's two grizzlies I drew in it today:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies086.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies087.jpg



quick portrait or two on tinted paper. had a hard time getting my scanner to pick up the white, or my values. D: oh well.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies088.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

awesome pillow! awesome bears! totally gay lookin dude.

KEEP GOOIINNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!11

[Niva.]

Holy mother of the ultimate non-button noses: Sorry John :( (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0004-3.jpg)

Seriously though, those portrait studies are very good. You're also very brave to cut up your works and collage them the way you did earlier on this page. I would never get the balls to do something like that.

I have to tell you something very important now as this might save your life at some point. Pandas may look cute, they might look slow and clumbsy - they are NOT. They're evil little fiends and the only reason why most people think otherwise is because they're constrantly high on Eucalyptus (sp?) Watch out for these evil fuggers.

[brandon.leedy]

Amazing graphic design ability, you have got style, I gotta say that. But at the same time, you also have a strong handle on realism which is a great combination to have. Really like the color usage, you are able to pick bright colors and make them vibrant, but they aren't obnoxious or clashing. I'll definitely be look more on this one!

[AmontilladoAg]

I heart your sketchbook, chica! <3

The cow-head hottie, the goggle girl... the Pringles lantern guy, the panda pillow! So much goodness! :teeth: And woot for stickers!

Cheers :^^:

[Henchman 21]

d i g g i n i t

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: haha thanks
n1va: thanks so much! i had the intention of cutting up that drawing and putting that fantastic tissue paper behind it before i even started it. thats really upsetting about the pandas, but its not gonna stop me from enjoying them from afar.
Leadster618: aw thank you so much! :D how nice of ya. please come back! hah.
amontilladoag: thanks for the loooove, dude. :)
Henchman 21: haha thanks dan


I've got more than this to upload that ill do later. the scanner at this house is pretty god awful. I managed to fix these ones:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies090.jpg


cute thing for david:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies089.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0006-2.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0007-2.jpg



Frankenstein tshirt design for my friends boss:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0008-2.jpg



Portrait I did last night of this kid at the party I was at. I think this is pretty good considering I was drinking as I was drawing this.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0009-2.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

ha, I love the flower eyed girl, and thanks for the cute drawing chelsea! good portrait too, youre getting better at life drawing and everything in general. one of my favorite things you do is mixing things up creatively like the flowers, wouldn't ever think to do that. Gooood stuff keeep goin chelsea!

[loveandasandwich]

You're so nice David! :D I sure will keep goin'.



Some felt buddies I've been sewing. The little blue dude on the right is a keychain on my backpack right now. Don't know what to do with the other ones just yet. working on some other ones too. they take awhile to do despite their small size, hand sewing's a bitch.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_5755.jpg



Here's the one I'm working on now. It's not done yet, still in pieces & she still needs mouth & nose.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_5756.jpg

[DARAF]

I like your toys. They would look great as little 3d creatures. or cartoons.

[Mr.Delicious]

awesome ideas with the little creatures. keychain and bear look wicked cooool, you should make me somethin

[Windmaker]

Hey:)
Damn! Your portraits are so awesome! I have absolutely no idea if the likeness is spot on or not, but they sure look great. And of course, the animal studies are also great:)
Only critique I can think of now is about Frankenstein's monter's left eyebrow (our right). Its upper edge doesn't show the relief you've shown on the forhead above.
It's great to see the progress with each post! Keep at it!
Have fun now:)

[Niva.]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies089.jpg

This is great! Do more of this type of work, you nailed this one with the emotion.

[loveandasandwich]

DARAF: I would love to make a cartoon! I've actually always wanted to make a claymation movie. But I think I may lack the patience.

David!: Thanks! Of course I will make you something :) <3

Windmaker: Thanks so much! :D & yeah I see what you mean about frankenstein.

n1va: you really think so? OK I will then!



Some things I drew on vacation, not so good stuff really 'cause I was pretty distracted most of the time, but I tried! I mostly sketched things I wanted to sew because of all the crazy craft stores I went into.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies095.jpg
Reffed from a crazy fashion book I bought.


Monkeys/meerkats with a brush pen!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies096.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies097.jpg




the ocean one day, & a lady from my stepmoms magazine:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies098.jpg



Portrait from life of my little sister. Her right(our left) eye is too big I realize now.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies099.jpg



Unfinished sketch of my break room at work with an 01 micropennnn. 15 minutes-ish.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies092.jpg


on the telephone with david birdie sketch
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies105.jpg



more animal sketches from national geographic =)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies106.jpg



I love this one. & I want to make it a tshirt. Maybe ill submit it to threadless.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies107.jpg


Bad picture of this zebraa with rainbow sunglasses I started embroidering, but never finished. It'll be done before I go back to school. The sunglasses alone took me about 6 hours, maybe more.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_5757.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

I like the first ones renderings, the bear and the boombox is awesome chelsea! I want that shirt as well. sweet animals in general also. I LOOOVE YOU! <3

[Sketch]

I love the plushies! So awesome... I really dig the flower girls too!

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: Thanks! I'll see if Chris will print one. Katy wants one too!

Sketch: Thanks mayyynnn! =)



my doodleys from today. work & home.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0010-1.jpg
break sketch. how i felt at work today



contour & blind contour is so fun! I like the look of them...all wiggly. I like the toes.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0011-1.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0012-1.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0013-1.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0014-1.jpg



i love this.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0015-1.jpg




watercolor albaca. not sure if i like this.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0016-1.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

owls and the albaca are awesome! I really like thhe owls though. Do more things... like the owls

[SMILEFACE]

your sewing and sketching are really good i love the animals and faces dig the bear and the boombox

[loveandasandwich]

thanks guys! :) :D :D


just a little summin summin.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0017-1.jpg

[Alexandr Pascenko]

i really like this style of linedrawing u go tgoing on there at post 47 . should do more of that , really looks like fun.

the apaca is sweeeet :D.

chees!

[Windmaker]

Hello:)
I just love your animal studies.
The contour and blind contour drawings are really nice, even if not completely accurate. For some reason I especially like the contour kitty:)
In the last picture, the hand touching the eye looks as if it's coming from behind the back. I believe this is due to the shoulder showing to the right of it and the sleeve, being cut by the line of back, or completely coinciding with it.
The owls are awesome too! They remind me of Joel Veitch's stuff (http://rathergood.com/). Have you seen it?
Keep doing good stuff:)

[Sketch]

You're killing it lately! Owls rock the shit out of me! I like the contour cat one as well... there's something really nice going in there. Like a life drawing that only uses one or two lines but you can totally tell what's going on. Keep on trying new things and keep the things that are working.

[Autumnal Dream]

Yay!! :D
Seems that I'm not the only one improving very quickly ^^.
Comparing your sketches from april to the current ones.. wow o.o'.
Btw. your works are really beautyful, especially the watercolor-llama ;D!
You've got great ideas. Want to see more!!

[loveandasandwich]

:D Horray so many comments!


Goblinshark: Ok! I don't really use lines like that unless im doing a really in depth portrait that ill work on for hours. But more stuff like that definitely will come.

Windmaker: & I just love drawing animals :D Drawing animals is fun, drawing people stresses me out sometimes. Youre right, the arm does look like it's coming from the back. I didnt even notice that. & Yeah, I know that guy, he did that "We like the moon" thing, I used to love that hahah. The owl does look like that kinda.

Sketch: Killing it!? At first I thought that was a bad thing, haha. I really like the look of the blind contours, it makes for a suprise when you look at it too, sometimes theyre really funny how off they are, & sometimes they have really interesting lines.


Autumnal Dream: Yeah, well pretty much everything except the last drawing in my first post was from high school, but yeah I can definitely tell the improvement I've made. Thanks so much! Here's some more.



Blind contour kitties & hands. I used different colored pens cause if I had too many on one page, you couldnt tell which was which.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0024-1.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0025-2.jpg




CHELSEAZILLAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan0023-1.jpg
hehehehee



& weredavid/weremr.delicious
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/weredavid.jpg




EDIT: I HAVE STARS!!! How exciting. THANKS GUYS! =)

[Mr.Delicious]

hooray! Thanks for turning me into a werewolf! I love you! <3<3<3! Nice contours, do studies chelsea! more studies@! nice stompin ;)

[Coinpurse]

hey Chelsea, lol @ Mr.D's rendition of a werewolf

Good solid stuff in here, you sew? (Hope I spelled that right) nice!

keep up with the studies, your getting better :)

[hummdrumm]

wow! yr prolly one of the most original artists here.
LOVE the stuffed animal things you make and yr little simple sketches have a real....umm...oh i cant think of the word. DAMMIT. i feel some sort of a relation to your subject matter...i guess. nice stuff.

and you should like that alpaca. hes pretty cute :)

[Dandilion]

Cool stuff mate! The owls made me so happy. Wonderful! ^^
Keep up the good work!

~Em

[Flipnastywebby]

just looked through your whole sketchbook :wink:
nice stuff, I really like the lama done is the washes(ink or watercolor?)

thank you for posting and visiting my sketch book :pirate:


keep up the good work!
Slainte!

[ChaoticKnight]

Nice SB! Definitely like the llama. Also the contour drawings are interesting.
Haha all the pasted teeth remind me of rathergood.com! lol
Cool stuff and keep posting!

[loveandasandwich]

I cant believe I have four stars! I seriously started kinda hyperventilating out of excitement when I noticed it. Thanks guys!!!



SO here's two little owl plushies I finished. I'm giving them to my little sister because I feel guilty leaving her to go back to school in a couple days. & what better way to ease the guilt than give PRESENTS!!

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_5988.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_5987.jpg

[Sketch]

That first owl is so awesome! How long does it take for you to do one of those?

[Mr.Delicious]

Wooo, those came out really good! I love the first one, wish you weren't givin em away :( I'd like to see em in person(so i can hug). Make more!

[loveandasandwich]

Thanks Sketch! Well that first owl only took me about 2-3 hours, cause it was little & easy. The second one probably took me more like 5 hours, since if I don't like the way something on it looks, ill rip out all the stiches & completely redo it. This next one took me around 5 hours too, probably more. I work pretty slow too most of the time 'cause when I sew I watch movies & Boy Meets World episodes haha since it mostly doesnt really need my full attention

Thank you David! well i'm keepin the second one. I made katy something else in place of it. :D



Made this afro lady today. She has a pocket in her hair! The 2nd owl fits perfectly in it. im thinkin of maybe tacking her to my wall at school & using the pocket to hold pencils or something like that.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_5997.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_5995.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

swwweeeet, like the pocket thing, I still love that owl. Came out nice though, make me something super craaazzzzzzzyyyyyy

[agelaos]

LOL, those sewing heads look freakin awesome.

[chrishly]

you´ve got some really nice and funny stuff in here :)

[Sketch]

Freaking hell that's fun! I really think you can keep on pushing the plushy thing... like get even more creative with it.

[loveandasandwich]

David: This owl's for you!

agelaos: Thanks dude, awesome is what im goin for.

chrisly: thanks haha. i like my stuff to make people smile!

sketch: Yeah, i have so many ideas sketched out, my hands just wont work fast enough. Plus I'm still trying to figure out a way to make them more 3d, cause right now they just have a front & back but no sides really. im gonna have to rip apart a beanie baby or something to figure out how they do it.



portrait from last night
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies108.jpg



damn owl took me forever. Dont know if i even like it anymore. No more owls after this i dont think.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_6003.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

that portrait is really good! you should finish the hair, the rendering is really good. I love my owl! I don't know what youre talking about :(.

[m0uS3r]

hehe .. love the pupets :D ... and like delicious sad you should finish the hair :D

keep up the good woerk ... cheers

[Sketch]

That's my fav owl so far! Lovin the shades. And that drawing is a step up in your skill level.

[eskanto]

really like your pencil rendering, 'specially the girl with the goggles a few pages back!

[agelaos]

sweet portrait, and love the owl. the yellow highlights on the glasses is genius.

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: maybe ill finish it someday. maybe. im glad you love the owl! i hope it keeps you company in carver.

m0uS3r: puppets!? theyre plushies. =( thanks though, haha


Sketch: Thanks! My favorite one is still the one with the swirlie eyes. No one else seems to like that one though. ah well.


eskanto: Thanks a ton! That one took forever. I need to develop more patience so i can make more things like that.


agelaos: haha thanks! ill make you one someday maybe. :D




Just one for now. I've been busy moving back into school & well... starting school. Too much excitement for me to settle down & try to draw something. I do have a finished plushie too but now that I'm not at home I dont have access to a good camera.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan002.jpg


RUN DMC. just messin around with new art supplies. wish i kept it all b&w

[Mr.Delicious]

haha, I love his expression, wooo cant wait to seee you again :)

[Miles_]

Haha lovely stuff. Specially the owls and that last portrait. Absoulutely in love with the rendering. Keep it up.

[Miles_]

Double post! haha oh yeah and looking back on the previous page the swirly eyed owl is my favourite too.

[voraz]

Hi nice sketches, and those "dolls" look great! :)
cheers

[Niva.]

Nice, I like the portrait in 157, you got the tilt of the head perfectly from what I can tell, nice job!

The bucktooth guy makes me want to deck him in the maw. The owls are cute though. Baby owls rule, big eyeballs!

[Windmaker]

Hello:)
Those owls are great! I wish I had me an army of them! We would conquer the world!
Also, your penciwork is getting better and better! This one (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/katies108.jpg) is just great:) My only suggestion would be to darken the background where it touches the face. It will make it pop out more.The face I mean.
Have fun now:)

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: woooo, i see you right now! yep. i see ya.

spazazo: thanks! i really need to draw more. I havent in a week or two.

voraz: thanks so much! =)

n1va: thanks!! I was pretty proud of that one. what bucktooth guy are you talking about?

windmaker: hahah, we'd conquer the world with cuteness!



Sooooo here's some plushies I've made since I moved back to school. Haven't drawn pretty much, at all, except for lame not conceptart worthy doodles.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/DSCN0917.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/DSCN0919.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/DSCN0918.jpg





I'm selling these too!!! If you want to buy one, or want me to make you a custom one, let me know!!






PS. Me & Dave (Mr.Delicious)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/DSCN0902.jpg
Feetie pajamas. This is art.

[agelaos]

haha those plushies are awesome. Sweet ass pajamas, so hot : D

[Mr.Delicious]

awesome plushiesssss!!!!!!!! we have the most wonderful pj suits.

[Sketch]

You two are freakin stylin! haha so sweet. New plushies are awesome!

[Sketch]

hey, there's something for ya in my latest update... it's not coloured but you can just choose what colour you want to go with, I trust ya!

[loveandasandwich]

ive kind of lost most of my interest in drawing. I tried to draw some animals the other night, but after two hours i got bored of it & didnt finish it, & started sewing something instead haha.

well heres the unfinished birds anyway:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/birds.jpg



these are probably my favorite "batch" of plushies so far. all except the one with the huge teeth are only the skins of them. I hadn't stuffed them yet so i could scan them into my computer. i dont have my own camera yet. at least not a good one.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/rahplush.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/pukeus.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/tailplush.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/icecweam.jpg



fuck yeah heart shaped pillow for david. its us. the pink is neon pink, it just didnt show up that way for some reason. it didnt totally fit in the scanner. & ITS NOT DONE YET. i keep getting distracted with other things.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/fuckyee.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

woo! I love that blue bunny, well both are awesome! Your plushies are starting took look... cleaner? awesome! I love my pillow! FINISH IIIIIIIIIITTTT!!!!!!

[Sketch]

Yah, Blue Puke Bunny rules! He's so sad because he puked all over himself, haha.

[Sketch]

What, no more Puke Bunnies done yet?!?

[loveandasandwich]

David: yeah, i can sew so fast nowwwwwww, & so much cleaner! its exciting.

sketch: hahah thanks! yeah i would be sad if i puked neon orange puke all over myself too. youre just a couple minutes too early, i was just about to update!



i drew today! and finished it. two portraits, nothing exciting. =(

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan002-2.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan003.jpg



Yay college! this is what i do during class.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan005.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan004.jpg



& the "skins" of a couple plushies i finished yesterday. im trying to think of a clever name for these kinds of plushies, i like "beanies" or "hoodies", since it looks like theyre wearing giant hoods.. but... i could think of better.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/loveandsammich.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/cutee.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

love your plushies chelseaaaa, do some of those new ideas on your notes! BAHHHHHH see you tomorrow love

[Sketch]

Ahhh, the amount of times I've puked neon orange all over myself, good times! I like the hoody plushies... it would be cool if they had long tubular arms in the air so it looked like they were dancing like hooligans.
That top portrait scares me for some reason. Maybe it's the sinister look on her face and the huge pony tail.
I think the unicorn looking creature would make a sweet plushy.

[edalva006@yahoo.com]

this some tight sh**** wow you progresed pretty fast , i love all your work cant wait to see more

[Miles_]

Awsome plushies. Plus the drawings nice as well. Ohh and stunning PJ suits lol.

[Niva.]

You really are improving, love the portraits though that tongue is huge!

[agelaos]

definitely seeing the improvement here, You should do some more imagination stuff too, just so you can see what you've learned. gogogog. Plushies look awesome as always : D , sold any yet?

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: I've been trying! I can only work so fast when I don't use a sewing machine

sketch: hahahah hooligans. ill try one of them with wiggly arms, see how i like it. i was gonna make the unicorn sometime soon! i modified it a little in one of my sketchbooks.

edalva: haha thanks!!

spazazo: yeah, i dont think any drawing i could ever make could match up to those pj suits.

n1va: she has a abormally long tongue, its kinda gross. i may have exaggerated it a bit though.

agelaos: :D yeah, all the imagination stuff ive been doing has just been plushie doodles. i have people who are interested, but they just never seem to email me back.



some kid doodles from yesterday:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/girls.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/girl.jpg


Some 2d design homework on "simplifying shapes". i did kittens in teacups! awww
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/kittenteacups.jpg

[ChaoticKnight]

Nice stuff! Definite improvement, and those plushies are pretty awesome. :P
Keep postin'!

[Mr.Delicious]

awesome! more more more more!

[Dandilion]

Wonderful!

Your stuff always make me smile. Big time! ^^

Em

[Johny 5]

I love the plushies, those things are so freaking cool looking, I love the owls, I love the one with the giant teeth, I love the one that looks like a bear with honey all gunked up in his mouth, the execution of them is awesome but I think the concepts are what make them shine.

I think your rendering of hair/fur could benefit from better grouping of light and dark masses, right now the hair in most of your drawings seems flat. maybe look for the darkest darks and the lightest lights in the fur and render according to those. I think this would give your animal drawings a better sense of form.

[loveandasandwich]

hey guys, thanks so much!! im too lazy to respond to my whopping 5 replies, but thank you guys! :D

haven't updated in here in a longlong time it feels like.
i wish i had some drawings to show. D:


I embroidered/sewed this pillow for david! I posted the semi-hardly done version awhile ago.... now it's done!

lookie lookie:

FRONT
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/fuckyeeeeeah.jpg


BACK
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan008.jpg





& some shameless self promotion!
I opened up an etsy shop! I'm selling my plushies now! how exciting, right?
Click it!
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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/lubandsammich-1.jpg (http://loveandasandwich.etsy.com)

Drawn by me, painted in photo shop by Dave(mr.delicious)

[Mr.Delicious]

what a lovely pillow you have made me! THANK YOOOUUUU CHEEELLSSEAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Now quick, everybody buy her plushies!

[loveandasandwich]

hahah woo! thanks david, my number one fan!


...wtf is this with groans & thanks? I don't get it. I've neglected you conceptart, I am so sorry.


Well. Most of this post is going to be non-2d art. sorry. i found i have much more fun sewing these cool dudes than I do drawing with pencil & paper.

I do have some artists trading cards I made recently, they're just doodlefun. 15 min tops for them. I want to make more 'cause they were really fun.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/smile.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sorrow.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/rainbow.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/flower.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/scan003-2.jpg





I got asked to be in a toy show! How exciting is that!
I've made three for it so far, here they are:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0999.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0995.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0973.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0975.jpg



This I made for a holiday plush contest:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1014.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1017.jpg



These were just for funsies:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1001.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1002.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0990.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1009.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

AWESOEMOEEOMEOEOEMEOMEOOMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEEMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


I like the bears. the most. I want you to make me one! I wanna love you.

I love you. <3

[InvertedChalupa]

hahaha! plush toys! thats great man... made me smile

[Sketch]

Oh DUDE! ps... I know you're not a dude BUT that antler one kicks my A-Hole! So good. Don't even worry about posting 2d shit if you keep on doing plushies like that.

[jiga]

Thoes toys could easily make you lots of money!
I also love the rabbit being sick rainbow style :D

Awesome work

[agelaos]

the one with the horns and crazy teeth is my favorite. haha, you keep it up now! Great work!

[loveandasandwich]

David: :D I love you too. Bears are my favorite too!

Inverted_chalupa: great! i love smiles, haha

sketch: Man, you have no idea how long that antlers one took me. It's huge, for one thing, & I'd never made anything with legs before so it took me like freakin 8 hours-ish.

jiga: i hope so! i have so much fun making these. I have a shop open, but i've only sold one thing so far.

agelaos: aw, thanks so much! i definitely will. i make like a plushie a day, usually, so... ill have tons & tons soon enough!


All my links broke from my plushie post two entries ago, so I'm reposting them, plus some new ones!

Enjoy! :D


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0921.jpg
Love & a sandwich mascots

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0925.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0926.jpg
monty


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0928.jpg
Oscar
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0929.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0932.jpg
Ruby


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0935.jpg
Colonel mustache


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0945.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0946.jpg
Drizzles


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0942.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0944.jpg
Pukeus


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0951.jpg
Izzy


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0957.jpg
Love & a sandwich!


chubby unicorn
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8768.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8770.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8769.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8772.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8773.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8775.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8776.jpg
Cats cats cats


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8777.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8780.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_8779.jpg
Bipolar Bear


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0990.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_0991.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/beaniefamily.jpg

[DeathChalupa]

Oh mag god! Plushies!
I've always wanted to do those ^___^

[Blaz]

haha...

plushies plushies plushies plushies plushies plushies plushies ....yay!

They are awesome! Do you give them names? I bet your home is swarm with those! :teeth:

Also very nice pencil drawings!

Keep plushing! ;)

[agelaos]

ooooh ya, the whole gang is there in the last picture : D. Lovely plushies.

I'm gonna spread the word around town about your shop, hope people start buying these. You have to make millions! MILLIONS!

[Sketch]

I really like that you're getting creative with the plushies (patterns, double-sided, etc)! Make sure to check out the latest issue of Computer Arts Projects... they have a tutorial on how to do plushies! It might be stuff you already know but there might be something new to you.

[Dandilion]

Give me the moose! I demand it! >.<

~Em

[DannySketch]

very fun sketchbook, cheers for sharing:)

i love the plushies,

not in a weird way

in a perfectly normal way,

[Kian]

f**King GENIUS. love it to bits

[loveandasandwich]

stupid fucking photobucket... doesn't even warn me about the bandwidth
But hey! Look at all this comments! How exciting.


DeathChalupa: You should totally make one! The first one is always the hardest to make, but when it's all done & stuffed, you feel so accomplished haha.

Blaz: Yeah, hahah, I try to give them all names to fit their "personalities". I don't live at home, I'm in a dorm, so my desk is covered, I don't even use my desk cause there's absolutely no room. I work & do my homework on my bed haha.

agelaos: hahah, awww, thanks! I will make millions! & get arthritis at 30! yesss.

sketch: thanks! I was looking on their site, but all I saw was articles on how to make vinyl/clay toys, not soft ones. I always wanted to make those, too. I just need to up my painting abilities a bit.

Dandilion: the moose is on sale in my shop if you want him ;) unfortunately, he's the most expensive on it 'cause he's really big.

Dannysketch & Kian: hahah, thanks so much guys! :D :D!


I HAVE TWO TOY SHOWS COMING UP!!
So... if you live in NH or NY, be sure to check out the Ello Gallery & shop in Portsmouth, NH, or the Kitsmet Gallery in Troy, NY in mid-November!
IM SO EXCITED.


I made this dude for a contest today:
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff12/loveandasandwich2/IMG_1025.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff12/loveandasandwich2/IMG_1037.jpg
The snow took fucking forever. I hope I win! :D


Made this collage in 2D design a couple weeks ago. My teacher sucks, my collage rules!
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff12/loveandasandwich2/monstersunderthebed.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff12/loveandasandwich2/IMG_1031.jpg



Two Artists trading cards I doodled during Art History, haha:
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff12/loveandasandwich2/scan002.jpg

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff12/loveandasandwich2/scan003.jpg



aaaaand a WIP for my 2d design class. Greyscale gouache. Has to have a cityscape in it.
It's gonna be the background, which I'm completely redoing next class. Her face isn't done yet either.
Shitty scan, cause the paper was too big for my scanner. =( sorry!
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff12/loveandasandwich2/cityscapegrey.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

yea yae, go chelsea! too bad about the bandwidth :(.

[loveandasandwich]

TWO OF MY PLUSHIES GOT IN THE TOP FIVE FOR THEIR CATEGORIES IN THE 2007 HOLIDAY PLUSHIE CONTEST

ANYONE CAN VOTE, PLEASE VOTE FOR THEM!!
CLICK:
http://softiescentral.typepad.com/blog/2007/11/top-5-finalists.html
Click "Voting Site" & vote for Holly Holiday & Simon Snowday!

AWESOME.



Anyway... I've been sewing my brains out lately... here's what I've been up to:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1118.jpg
Pawesome, I call her. She's being sent to a toy show in a week or two. I kinda don't want to give her up.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1120.jpg


Another Drizzle bunny... mint chocolate chip! haha
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1121.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1127.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1126.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1115.jpg
Some mini plushies. About 5 inches high. Painted on their faces with paint pens.

I gave them all awkward names.

Charles
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1110.jpg


Cornelius
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1102.jpg


Cleo
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1106.jpg


Crystal
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1101.jpg



& some little mini bears & babes. They're little beanie things, filled with rice, so they feel kind of like hackey sacks.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1090.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1166.jpg


Bottoms
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1169.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1170.jpg




& this is me... totally pumped about plushies!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1142.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

yeayeayeayeayeyaeya! goooo chelsea! youre gonna win and I'm gonna get so pumped!

awwesssssoommmeee!!!!!!!!!!!11

[roidvoid]

im going to be honest here and risk comming off as a jerk....
ur plushies are so much beter than ur 2d stuff.
they are amazing and i think you could make a career out of them. they are playful but weird and quirky in a hip but dorky way. i love them
really
really
for the plushies i will give u 5 stars

[Diphallia]

I don't know nothing about plushies, but those look.. Um, nice ;)
As long as you're having fun with them it's okay for me. :)
Nice sketchbook, I'll most certainly check back here soon :D

[Coinpurse]

I told Dave I should be "Jumped" in Bwuahahahah! :D

Killer SB btw,
Voted for you in that contest
Cheers!

[Pseudocognition]

Omg. Plushies. They're adorable, they have this great graphic quality to them.... lots of personality. I want one D: Your 2D work has the same sort of attitude, but for some reason it shows more in your plushies, which might be what roidvoid was trying to say.

I love the card you made for your dad, I cracked up. XD And great animals~

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: But i didn't win! fuck that bitch! :frustrated:

roidvoid: yeah, i know they are hahah. thats why i make them a lot more than i draw now. :D! Five stars for my plushies!?!? awesome. thanks!!

Diphallia: those umm... nice plushies got me a spot in three galleries! i have much more fun sewing these than drawing, hah

Coinpurse: Thanks! Too bad that cuntt beat me. shes dead.

Pseudocognition: Thanks! Yeah, I know whatcha mean. I'm not very good with drawing realistic sorts of things, I lose attention & I just want to have fun with what I'm drawing/making. Hahah, thanks! my dad loved the card... he cried actually when he saw it... strange.



I bet you all secretly hate me for posting all plushies & no 2d stuff.
too bad!



I sent this stuff out to the Kismet Gallery in Troy, NY for their Plush, Vinyl & Plastic show, opening on Saturday!!
If you live nearby, you should check it out. I wish I could. =(

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1210.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1212.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1215.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1217.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1220.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1214.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1222.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1226.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1227.jpg

The tags I made for them:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/tags.jpg


& some little handpainted beanie things that I put in my shop & didn't send to the gallery.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1236.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1237.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1239-1.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1240.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1244.jpg



& a banner thing that I drew, & david colored on the computer for me. Thanks dave!!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/chelsealogo.jpg
my doodles ideas for it:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/banner2.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/banner.jpg

[Sketch]

Me likeeeee! I really dig how the Kanye West Bear (at least that's what I'm calling him) has a sense of movement. Like he's going buckwild on the dance floor and doesn't care what anyone thinks of him!

[Mr.Delicious]

niiiiiice, the rainbow jimmy bunny is sweeet. I like the cooler than kanye west bear ;). heres hoping you sell many things! GOOO CHELSEA!

[loveandasandwich]

Sketch: Hahah, wait are you calling the rainbow stripey one kanye? I named that one sabrina on its tag.

David: Thanksss! I like that one too, it just took me forever =(


Another update! Two in one day!
I finished up my lame 2D design project. This class sucks. On my last project, I asked my teacher something about perspective, & she said she "didnt know anything about perspective" WTF!? youre a 2D design teacher. stupid cuntt. erg. since then I've just been making cool stuff to hang on my wall.
aaaaanyway, This was a song project. I chose Run DMC- You be illin'

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1245.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1247.jpg

I layered different cardstock colors on the blue cardstock, & colored it in with sharpie. Their hats are cardstock too, & I colored around them.

[Mr.Delicious]

yeaaaaa good one. <3

[lefran]

I love these plushies! so Very Very cool :D I shall be checking your shop out missy ^__^

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: thanks! ;)

lefran: thank youuuu! i hope you like it.



A self portrait, used the picture my avatar is, just to prove to myself that I can still render. Haven't drawn a portrait in a damn long time.
I'm happy with how it came out, at the bottom of my hair I kind of just went asuidhsaidfuherwiher...messy.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1263.jpg

I took a photo of it.. it came out looking more like the actual drawing than my scanner showed.




Whatchu guys think?

[Mr.Delicious]

I think your face is a little longer, but the renderings very niice. I like the sunglass lense where you can see your eye through it.

[agelaos]

wow there, nice rendering on those shades. I agree about the short face needs to be a bit longer, also the lips are a little to slanted, which doesn't seem to be the case in the avatar. But no worries, keep it up!

[lennon]

Very good studies and pencil work. You can still check a little more the proportions of the heads, but your works are really nice to see.

[Dan Valkar]

nice plush toys...very creative stuff in here..love ur pj btw...oh and the owl its my fav...keep'em comin'!!!

[Flaskpost]

Beautiful self portrait. I wanna see more of those. =)
You´ve got the coolest sunglasses on the internet!
The Run DMC illustration thingy is flippin awesome as well!
Keep it up!

[loveandasandwich]

Horray! Replies! :D


Dave: Yeah, I think I was rushing that one a bit, because I was running out of time before I had to go to sleep.

Dennis: thanks dude! I definitely will be picking up the pencil now more since I have more time to.

lennon: thanks! of course i still have lots to learn, but ill keep practicing :)

Dan_valker: haha thank youuu!!

flaskpost: hahahah i won those sunglasses at a bowling alley for 500 tickets! they glow in the dark & they fuckin ruuule.




So... I made the O RLY? YA RLY owls last night & today.
They make me giggle, but I feel like a loser. :(

Oh well!
LOOK AT THEM.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/orlyyarly.jpg

If you've never heard of them, GET OFF THE INTERNETS.

They're from THIS:
http://tinypic.com/flfqsj.jpg


My friend gave me around 100 4 x 6 fancy photo paper pieces, & I kind of went nuts doodling santas with funny outfits on, hahah.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1284.jpg

I picked 10 I liked the most to color. I discovered while coloring them in that most of my markers were dead. :( How sad. I tried to make it work.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/sketchy.jpg
Sketchy santa

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/alternative.jpg
Alternative santa ... the background was neon yellow, but my scanner decided it was peach. =(

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/prettylady.jpg
Pretty lady santa

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/hipster.jpg
Hipster santa

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/trendy.jpg
Trendy hoodie santa

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/panda.jpg
Panda santa

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/tough.jpg
Tough santa

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/harry.jpg
Harry Potter santa

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/chill.jpg
Chill santa

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/britney.jpg
Britney Spears santa




:D

[Mr.Delicious]

I like harry potter santa the most... and awesome owls lady! <3

[dadushin]

haha awesome! seriously...super cute
i feel like it would be a perfect gift for my girl
seems like you have a lot of fun doing them it really shows
as for more traditional stuff i think that last batch is great feels like you are finding and developing your own style
sweet yo keep it up!

[Sketch]

I like Panda Santa the most... just because it makes the least amount of sense.

[loveandasandwich]

Dave: I think I like that one best too, just cause of the colors & that damn cute owl.

dadushin: haha thanks! you should get her one ;) ;) i sell my stuff, haha. yeah i do try to just have fun with whatever I'm making. I guess that's my style, haha, silly cutesy shit.

Sketch: hahah, i think i just have to put pandas in everything.



SO!


Two things I finished today.


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1291.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1292.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1295.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1296.jpg
I'm insanely happy with how this came out... that's why there's so many pictures, haha. I've been meaning to make this guy since the summer!



& then I made this cute fuzzy monster.
I named him Copernicus, 'cause I've been watching Back to the Future part II a lot, haha.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1289.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

niiice ones, LOVE YOU <3

[Diphallia]

Wow, I missed a ton of updates.
Sweet plushies.
I like copernicus! :D
The plushies with sticky things on them are awesome! :D (post #215)

[AmontilladoAg]

You do excellent work, chica :teeth:

Yer plushies rock the hizzouse <3 and keep up the drawin's, too... that unfinished sketch of the birds looked really super cool!

I'm also likin' the stuff you do for your graphic design class, esp. the collage! I took one of those classes... grayscale made my eyes bleed :dead: Best thing about the class? Meeting my now-boyfriend :P

Keep crankin' out those crazy artz! :bounce:

[Fayle]

Very funny plushies :)
Creative and cool style!

Cheers Fayle

[Smoke]

Those owls are well beyond awesome.

[moket]

your plushies are so sweet ! Now I must learn to sew.

[nofingers]

Thanks for the comment in my SB. Those plushies are pretty damn awesome. I think that the drizzle bunnies, and the most recent one (copernicus) are my favorites. I could definitely see those being sold in some funky art boutique.

[Sketch]

Nice update, Chelsea! I thought you might want to check out this artist's plushies... http://www.malotaprojects.com/new2/ If you go down to the design section and then click on 'xana, brownie & friends' They're pretty sweet might give you some new ideas!

[loveandasandwich]

Sketch: I'm in a toy show with her!! I saw her stuff before on flickr before. I wish I got to meet all these awesome plushie makers, but sadly I couldn't make it to the show opening. Ohhh weell. haha I was too excited about this to wait until I had something to update.

[Henchman 21]

queen of plushies

[loveandasandwich]

So many comments!

Dave: THANKS DAVID!!! <3 <3 <3 I love you, too!

Diphalia: thank youu! hahah, sticky things? sprinkles! at least i think that's what youre talking about...

AmontilladoAg: hahah, thank you! I do need to draw more. Right now I don't got the time! I will after Christmas, though. :D :D I'm in 2D design, no computers involved... it makes my brain bleed.

Fayle: Heyyyy, thanks! ;)

smokey186: hahah thank you!

moket: thanks! it isnt hard, i failed home ec in middle school when it came to sewing. i learned how by taking books out from the library, & practicing!

nofingers: yeah, some of them are in two galleries right now! its insanely exciting. thank you! :D

Dan: hahahah, i wish! check out cottonmonster.com , now SHE is the queen of plushie




I'm so excited my head might fucking EXPLODEEEE

I just found the flickr account of the huge toy show in Troy, NY i was a part of, & I found my little setup they made for me there.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/TOYSHOW.jpg
I was so excited just to see that, I didn't even notice that there were little notes on each one, and all but one were SOLD! & they all sold within the first three days!
Holy crap shit.
They had to rework the wall after that
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/TOYSHOW2.jpg
There's Milton! Standin' strong, all alone, hahah.

Here's the link of their flickr if you wanna check it out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kismetartgallery/
damn cool stuff.



Oh, & I made this guy today:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1334.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

I'm so proud of my chelllllseaaaa! eyeyayeayeyeayeayeayeya, great work!

[El Jeremie]

I dunno what the last on ebut i want the same for christmas.

[ethan karnopp]

those dolls (i think that would be the most appropriate term?) are killer.. make me one :O

[Miles_]

Congartulations on the sold plushies they are looking pretty awsome. I especially love the most recent one. I'm not really sure how to crit a plushie so all I can say is to keep on making them.

[Diphallia]

There's three "stickies" in your latest post.
Upper left, upper right and down left.
I love the black one with blue stickieness.

SiNEjde: I belive they are called plushies.

[Coinpurse]

So I gotta asssskkkkk...

How many of these did you make Dave? lol

Awesome work girl! keep it up :D

[entdroid]

Cool! Love your plushies!!! The one with the mittens on his ears and the last one, the furry guy with the antlers, are truly truly awesome :D
Thanks for stopping by my sb too :)

[wyrmnite]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1222.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1291.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/loveandasandwich/IMG_1245.jpg


Chels, i LOVE these ! your super talented holy crap!