more animals

 Trying to take the time to actually look at animals and learn what it is about their shapes and features that make them look like what they are.  Still need tons of practice, but hey, practice is what gets you to the destination you desire!
Top: zoo sketches and some watercolored pencil work
Bottom: Lion face studies from the other night.  Looked at a series of photos and without trying to go for a style, just drew the features as I saw them.

Cinderella

I was unhappy when it dawned on me that the movie cinderella is a strawberry blond (especially strawberry) and yet marketing always represents her as a yellow blond wearing a blue dress (as opposed to the beautiful white dress she has in movie) ... so I did a quick painting.
Also, I needed painting practice.  considering I did everything backwards on this, I'm glad I tested this out before doing it on "important" pieces.

Eruption

Wait, is this actually a finished painting!?

Watercolor spot illustrations

 I really love painting.  I need to paint even more!  So at Jemma's house I decided to do some crazy spot watercolor artings as she worked on some paintings way more badass than me.  This is what I came up with:

Here's a silly painting I did last week.  Someone asked me to draw basically a dalmatian as Indiana Jones going after the idol... but the idol is a SANDWICH.  So I did.  And it was epic.

Work

Just a couple of things I did when I was over at Storm8 for the holiday editions of Bakery Story and Restaurant Story.  I also did one for Farm Story, but since it was me mostly adjusting and re-designing current assets, figured these two were worth the most the post.  Since these images have been out and released all month, I can post them xD
 
In the Bakery Story image, they adjusted my composition and added the giant gingerbread man after I left, but otherwise, I drew everything else (With the missletoe or the tiny gingerbread men, I took existing assets and adjusted their shading and shape to work when viewed large)

This one with all that ham made me SO HUNGRY!  I was glad I got to spend the holidays with my family and have some large meals :3

All vector work, of course.  I no longer work at Storm8, but I still had fun with the art I did there!

art!

Sorry, haven't been on top of things!
artartart.
Also, I put a LOT of sketches up on Twitter of entirely inconsequential things.
http://twitter.com/meralynndis

Yeah, this is basically where I want to take my art now.

artworks and concepts

Okay, here's some art I've been working on.  Mostly a lot of conceptual stuff.

First we have a few more conceptual designs I did for Fishbone's House
... and speaking of Fishbone... I did a more finalized drawing for the characters (Not a char. sheet, though)

So, we hve Fishbone, the girl and the boy (who I'm still thinking of names for.)

Mostly just to test what style I want to draw this in. And to practice children, ahh!
I was then asked to come up with mass transit, and considering the animal connection on this world, decided to concept a Roc (mythological bird) that carries a sort of carriage.

Rough ROUGH designs.

This was my first idea... roughly some sort of raptor/rooster/harpy eagle.
Then I realized it was a stupid idea.  Plus, no one liked the bird (not majestic enough), so I ran back to the drawing board, took the parts I liked, and made them better.

This was my more finalized design.  More of a Quetzalcoatlus (the massive pterosaurs dinosaur rather than the mythological creature) meets cassowary.  I like this design a lot better.  The bottom are some carriage designs, although I'm going to go back into those AGAIN and make them more aerodynamic as well as work out exactly how it sits on the back (I came up with some horrendous design ideas while sitting in a bar, but I won't upload those)

These are just some simple mood shots to get a feel for it.  Again, these need work: too rough.

Finally, here's another image I'm working on for The Snow Queen.  I'm going to re-work the composition, so this is just a rough stage.

It'll be flat colored like the last piece.