Daisy Church's Drawing a Day

Happy Year of the Dragon!

2012-01-23T17:08:00.001-08:00

Being that this year is "water dragon," I find my piece very fitting! Done for our Crowdstar dragon mini art-show.

Also digitally colored/ inked on my ipad!

Quick Studies

2012-01-20T01:20:00.001-08:00

For an upcoming show! Not sure if I'm going to paint them or do it in graphite yet.... (and maybe do a watercolor/ marker pass on top?)

Zen brush + art studio=

2012-01-17T14:15:00.001-08:00

Bunches of zen brush doodles

2012-01-17T00:24:00.001-08:00

Hand Made Illustration

2012-01-12T12:47:00.000-08:00

I am pleased to announce my inclusion in Monsa's amazing "Hand Made Illustration" book, full of amazingly talented artists such as Brandi Milne, Glenn Arthur, and many others!!

Now available for sale! It was a pleasure and an honor to be included in such a great group of talent!! A huge thank you to Eva Minguet for including me.

Hand Made Illustration

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In love part 2: plus, some birds

2012-01-10T01:02:00.001-08:00

I have some "real" drawings to scan in too this week as well. I like using the zen brush app to just play around with shapes and lines; very loose and easy!

Bird designs are studies from the ever great Charles Harper. Also, my iPad blogger app likes to do some weird re-sizing issues; still trying to iron that out!

Enjoy!

In love

2012-01-09T00:24:00.001-08:00

Digital portraits and Rocket

2012-01-08T00:23:00.001-08:00

iPad drawings using art studio and zen brush!

Quick lunch doodle

2012-01-06T12:49:00.001-08:00

iPad app Zen Brush! Really beautiful and simple drawing app for those brush pen lovers

iPad life drawings

2012-01-05T23:15:00.001-08:00

Life drawing at Crowdstar on my iPad!

More iPad drawings

2012-01-05T01:27:00.001-08:00

Got a stylus to play around with: here's tonight's and last nights drawings. A bit of a learning curve, but love playing with an infinite palette!

The green haired girl is inspired by Clara Bow in this awesome Flickr set of old cinema cards... I glanced at the first one and drew from memory/ added my own elements to it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44841559@N03/sets/72157623492021820/

2012 Drawings (FINALLY!)

2012-01-03T23:53:00.000-08:00

Day one and two of 2012.... ta da! And with that, I am OFFICIALLY caught up on scanning in my sketchbook. Here I come, 2012!

Crows and Ribbons.

1/1/12

Rocket and Inky like to hang out in the bathroom a lot with me.

1/2/12

New Sketchbook from China

2012-01-03T23:50:00.000-08:00

With brown pages! Joy!

Holiday Drawings

2012-01-03T23:49:00.000-08:00

Ice Skatin'

Snowglobe

Reindeer (unfinished)

Asian influenced and some lovely nudes

2012-01-03T23:48:00.000-08:00

Phoenix woman

Antler girl

Vintage girl

Chun Li pinup

Mermaid

Family Photos

2012-01-03T23:46:00.000-08:00

Halloween Costume; Morticia and Gomez Addams

Three year anniversary! Sort of a prototype for my holiday card, I suppose.

Rocket and Inky study

Getting caught up

2012-01-03T23:44:00.000-08:00

Peppermint Geisha. It would make a lot more sense if it was colored in.

What Inky will look like one day

Another study for Monsters and Dames piece. (which, btw, did not get accepted. Sigh!)

More Sketches

2012-01-03T23:40:00.000-08:00

You saw this one cleaned up on an iPad earlier!

We got a Roomba. It is amazing. The kittens disagree.

Modeling cute vintage dresses!

Ethereal nude

Halloween Lovelies

2012-01-03T23:37:00.000-08:00

Yup. These are from October. Enjoy!

Sketchy Women

2012-01-03T23:34:00.000-08:00

Getting caught up on back scanning... here are some pencil and ballpoint pieces!

Un-Colored (but Inked) Stuff

2012-01-02T23:56:00.000-08:00

I meant to ink this all in, but never got around to it. Annnd, hence the backlog of drawings being scanned in... maybe I'll digitally ink them at some point?

Anyway, drawings! lots of them!

Study for Monsters and Dame piece

Day of the Dead mermaid

Vain Medusa

Cleopatra and Asp

another take at The Always Broken Goddess

Day of the Dead Steve Jobs

Halloween Witch Pin-up

Prince Rocket

2012-01-02T23:52:00.000-08:00

And the court jester Inky

Walrus Girl

2012-01-02T15:21:00.001-08:00

Like how this turned out; would like to do a more finished version. Think I've been influenced by reading too many Golden Compass books!

Sketch Dump part I

2012-01-02T15:18:00.000-08:00

Haven't scanned everything in, but here's a bunch of drawings in an attempt to get caught up!

Happy 2012! Looking Back and Moving Forward

2012-01-02T14:31:00.000-08:00

Happy 2012 everybody!

First off, so many apologies for falling off the "posting every day" train a few months back. One of my resolutions for 2012 is to get back on board with posting a drawing every day.

2011 has definitely been a mixed bag for me.

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The pros!

Moving to San Francisco after getting offered a fantastic job working at Crowdstar working as an animator on social games (a steady job! With benefits! OMG!)

Getting to travel to Beijing, China, with my husband Damon

Getting to (finally) work on a comic book together with Damon and exhibiting for the first time together at both Emerald City Comic Con and APE (Alternative Press Expo)

Getting to oversee and produce Girls Drawin Girls Vol IV (the largest, and I think, best book to date from the group!)

Getting to be a part of so many wonderful art shows all around the world, including shows in Paris and Mexico City!

Most of all, having the love, support and benefit of my amazing family and all my wonderful friends.

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The cons

I was very torn on if I should post cons. First off, I like to think that I want to stay positive, and focus on the pro aspects of the year. I also sometimes feel that I need to keep my personal self separate from my "artist" self, the self that I show to the public. However, I feel compelled to at least acknowledge some of the battles and challenges that I have encountered the past year.

Moving to San Francisco. I know, I listed this as a pro, and it is, but the con part of it has been having to move away from Los Angeles. I still get really homesick and miss all my friends and the life I had in Los Angeles. And it's ok, because it's a natural part of moving, but I do have to admit, it's been tough at times.

Fighting with depression. It's been a bit of a rough year for me, personally. I am so hesitant to admit this here, on my blog, but I think it's something a lot of us artists struggle with; when your personal artwork can be so closely tied to your commercial success, and all the self-doubt and demons that you fight with in your head. I have to admit, it's been a large reason of why I haven't been posting here that often, and why I feel my art has been harder to create than usual. Something that has really hit home to me personally has been the suicide of a friend and colleague of mine, Ricky Garduno. His death was the first one of somebody who was around my age, working in my profession (flash animation), and somebody who was so clearly incredibly talented. It has been very hard for me (and many of my friends who knew him) to come to grips with his death. I've realized that immense talent doesn't protect you from self-doubt and depression, and even if you're surrounded by people who love you, how easy it can be to push them away. Ricky clearly struggled with his own demons, and it's something I can relate to, because we all struggle with our demons in different ways. It's just so sad that his struggle ended the way it did.

Ending my relationship with Girls Drawin Girls. It was a huge and painful decision to leave that organization, because of the amazing artists and opportunities it offered. I was so proud of the work I've done with the group and the friends I've met and made, but in the end, I felt bullied, overwhelmed and under appreciated. What made me even more sad was realizing that the group would never reach it's full potential, and that it was time for me to move on and concentrate on fulfilling my own full potential.

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ANYWAY, on to bigger and brighter endeavors in 2012! Some exciting things I have planned for 2012 are curating my FIRST art show, participating in even more gallery shows, exhibiting at Emerald City Comic-Con with Damon again (and hopefully attending more conventions!), publishing a book of my own work, and continuing to make art, travel and enjoy life :)

Much love to you all in 2012!

(ps- I am totally inspired by San Smith's use of super cute hearts and signatures in her blog posts, so I hope to incorporate those in my blog posts from now on : D