Don't know if I'll ever finish this, but it was a fun doodle.

More Teahouse Renders

Portrait Practice 2

More portrait practice from photos. I like the way this one turned out a lot better--trying to stay away from opacity and round brushes on this one (as advised by my art director). So I used an oval brush and only a tiny bit of opacity. :P I'll try a rectangular brush with a little bit of tooth to it, tonight.

I actually found a forum of girls squealing over male models, and... being a girl who likes pretty men, I did a lot of 'right click/save as'... for REFERENCE. Yeah. All in the name of art, etc.

Taking a page out of my husband Xavier's book, last night I started painting portraits digitally from reference. Its mindless and fun, I plan on doing at least one a day--its a good way for me to get painting practice with faces/people, since I don't have access to a proper figure painting class any longer.

Monster Hunter Tri Weapon Contest Entry

I don't typically draw weapons, but this was a lot of fun to come up with. :)

WIP: Muramasa Piece

Starting to rework this a bit... Momohime is next.

Special Announcement! Squid Plush Pre-Orders!

After months of working behind-the-scenes, I am very, very excited to announce the opening of pre-orders for my Ika squid plush toy!

He will arrive in January 2010 regardless, but if you snag a preorder now, he is $16 (yes, that includes shipping in the continental US) to your door, versus $20.

Ika is 6.5" tall and 5.5" wide across his eyes. He is soft, cuddly and shiny, with embroidered eyes and painted details. There will only be 250 of this colorway, so he is VERY limited!

I hope this will be the first plush toy of many. :)

Preorder Ika here!

Soul Harvester model WIP

Just chugging away on the texture for this sucker. :) I hope to get to a 90% done point with it tonight, so I can start on the alpha and refining details tomorrow.

Weapon Designs

A first rough pass at some giant honkin' sword designs.

Which do you favor more, A, B or C?

Treehouse

Waterfall WIP 3

After a hiatus on this piece (I just didn't know where to go with it!), I've discovered that cropping is my new BFF. Now to refine details in the character/background and add some real foliage instead of just... moss. :P

Also, ignore her creepy, creepy face please! It was literally the last thing I painted before deciding to call it a night, and spent all of 15 seconds on it, heh.

Rawr, rawr, woof!

A couple of cute sketches drawn during a meeting.

Waterfall WIP 2

Base colors are in... need to figure out where the characters will be, and then start refining things.

Japanese waterfall WIP

Trying to get better at this background thing... :|

Fan Art: Yoko from Gurren Lagann

Linework for my version of Yoko Ritona, from the strange, epic and hilarious anime, Gurren Lagann. The final piece (which I plan on finishing with watercolors, markers and colored pencils) will be for sale at the Otakon art show.

Landscape WIP

Say "Hello!" to the Chublubbins!

A huge thunderstorm knocked out our internet RIGHT at 9pm, jinxing me totally - the internet didn't come back on til a few minutes ago. Sigh!

Nevertheless, say "Hello!" to the Chublubbins!

Chublubbins are happy miniature monsters that love to explore. It would make them so happy to be able to come home with you!

They are hand-cast in resin and hand-painted with love. Due to the nature of the hand-casting & painting process, each figure is slightly different.

Limited to four of each colorway, and are $25 each.

More information at store.shellyrodriguez.com!

Almost here...

Check my store out @ 9pm MT this evening for a special delievery... :)

Sketchbook Cover

This is the image that I will be using for the front cover of my upcoming sketchbook. It will be a collection of sketches & finished pieces that I have completed between 2008 & 2009, 28 pages in full color.

If you catch me at a convention this year, they will run you a cool $10. :) Otherwise they'll be $12.50, which includes first-class shipping anywhere in the world.

I plan on sending this to the printer by week's end!

Pirate Skullypus

See more of him on my flickr photostream!

I made this for the Skully Show taking place at Chuckwa in mid-May. My first urban vinyl custom, and my first show, whee!

That being said, this was a BLAST to work on - I have a munny blank that I've had for months, that I was too scared to experiment with. :P Now I know exactly what I want to do with it... started on it this morning, in fact! Stay tuned. :)