Shelly Rodriguez { Illustration | Sculpture | Life }

Ch-ch-changes!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:54:00 +0000

A lot has happened since October 2010! After a whirlwind November weekend spent in NYC, my husband and I found new jobs which resulted in a move across the country from Salt Lake City, Utah, to New York, New York at the very beginning of December.

In October I finally decided to branch my store stuff from my portfolio work, resulting in a brand new venture called inki-jinx! All of my cute goodies can be found at inki-jinx.com.

I have a blog on tumblr, as well as a Facebook page! Follow me there if you use either service. :)

I've still been making art--including my first finished non-digital piece in a very long time, for a fundraiser to help the Japan Tsunami Relief effort.

Tee Shirt News

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:28:00 +0000

"Sad Octi" is being reprinted, and "Princess Truffle" tee is coming soon!

Princess Truffle

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:24:00 +0000

I'm still on a piggy kick! A new tee shirt design.

Say Hello to Monsieur Cholesterol~

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:36:00 +0000

Ah, finally! The finished concept for a 3D piece I'm working on.

New Business Card

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:14:00 +0000

My new business card design! Simple but good. :)

Oink!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:24:00 +0000

Piggy goes nom-nom!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:05:00 +0000

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

Yo ho ho~

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:50:00 +0000

Here ya go... have a headless, handless portly fellow.

Can anyone guess who I'm modeling? :)

Time to dust off the ol' blog...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:07:00 +0000

Yikes, time flies! Between the last post I've made, and today:

It was Halloween! It was Thanksgiving! It was Christmas! I went to Japan for New Years! Now... it's almost Valentine's Day. My, how times flies...

Between the crush of holidays, a looming vacation and a little bit of winter blues, my plush Ika were produced and arrived on my doorstep! YEAH!

That being said, all those in the US who were kind enough to pre-order the little guys should be expecting a happy squid to swim into your mailbox within the week; those of you who live in the grand world beyond, he might take couple of weeks to arrive. Those little tentacles get tired, you know?

His siblings are still in need of loving homes--and they can even make it to you by Valentine's day for an extra dose of cuddles and cuteness, if ordered by Wednesday the 10th.

Buy your ika here, or take a look around the rest of my store for the perfect gift for the cute-loving most-loved person in your life. :)

More Teahouse Renders

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:08:00 +0000

Portrait Practice 2

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:31:00 +0000

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.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:34:00 +0000

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.

Silhouettes

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:20:00 +0000

I am not good at drawing non-effeminate men (I love them, but not everyone enjoys a JRPG aesthetic...), so I am determined to draw a tough guy this go around, or at least someone who isn't 'pretty'.

I had a lot of fun with these--the ones above are the best of the bunch. Going to paint over them in photoshop and see which strike my fancy.

Monster Hunter Tri Weapon Contest Entry

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:29:00 +0000

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

Dragon girl revisited

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:03:00 +0000

Kind of turning her into more of a sci-fi character than a fantasy character, but that's ok! Been working on adding bits and bobs to her outfit all weekend, extensive physical modeling of clothing is new for me.

WIP: Muramasa Piece

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:42:00 +0000

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

Special Announcement! Squid Plush Pre-Orders!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:36:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:42:00 +0000

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.

Too cute not to share!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:26:00 +0000

Weapon Designs

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:40:00 +0000

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

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

Treehouse

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:05:00 +0000

Waterfall WIP 3

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:50:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:26:00 +0000

A couple of cute sketches drawn during a meeting.

Waterfall WIP 2

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:44:00 +0000

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

Japanese waterfall WIP

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:56:00 +0000

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