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Self portrait of me in San Francisco.  It's a Kikidoodle :)!

Mermaid sphynx cats!

Box cats!  Lion, tiger, cheetah and jaguar.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer christmas card design

Fox art.

Star Wars art.  Some concept art I did with Disney Games for a potential style pitch.  They didn't go with it, oh well!

Fire dragon and sitharian

Dark Dragon.  A re-do of a very old piece of mine.

I'm not a big fan of Blogspot, but since it prioritizes showing these images on Google, I'll slowly update (Also good for people who may only follow me here, but who does that!?)

More places to find me!

Tumblr (sketchblog): http://kikidoodle.tumblr.com/
Deviantart (Sketches and final art): http://kiki-doodle.deviantart.com/
Facebook Fanpage (finished art): https://www.facebook.com/kikidoodle.art
Etsy (my store and art for sale!): https://www.etsy.com/shop/Kikidoodle
Twitter: @KikidoodleTweet
Instagram: http://instagram.com/kikidoodling/
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/kikidoodled/
Fur Affinity(mirror of DA): http://www.furaffinity.net/user/kikidoodle/

If you ever want work from me, please contact
ChristineKnopp@gmail.com
for little commissions contact KikiDoodleCommissions@gmail.com

Eruption

Wait, is this actually a finished painting!?

The Secret of Kells

Ok, if you haven't seen this movie yet, you NEED to.  The art direction is astounding, and it's SO inspirational.  The Secret of Kells is instant stream on Netflix right now, which provides wonderful opportunities to grab a ton of screen captures :)!

Here's a few of my favorite ones.
(this movie is beautiful!)
Enjoy.
(I don't consider any of these "spoilers" because while some are important plot scenes, you don't see anything that gives away the why, what or how.)

And so this isn't just a Secret of Kells post, here's some fish I painted!

carousel Illumination

I figured that it may be nice to show some of the progress work on my latest illustration.
First the sketch.
Then I put down some values. The phrase was illumination showed the way, so I tried to focus heavily on the light. However, later, I found this hid the children far too much!

My colors. I had limited time, so instead of doing color studies, I did several versions of underpaintings and clicked between the layers until I found something I liked. Then I flattened the image.


I just paint right on top of the image.

Getting closer! The stripes and designs are always the last thing I add.


Ta-da!

And now to go to the next assignment.