Tomato Flavored

Violins and surprise

2009-08-15T15:54:00.004-04:00

if: contained

2009-01-12T19:16:00.005-05:00

illustration friday, "contained"

Have you ever found your childhood in a book?

Prince above the city

2008-11-02T22:36:00.003-05:00

I originally planned for the prince to have a background like this. So now he does.
I think... it's still a work in progress, though. :)

Pixel Prince

2008-10-25T15:26:00.004-04:00

Some things that have been sitting in my art folder.

This is Pixel,

and this is the Wind Prince,

The Miscellaneous Misadventures of Tadia & co.

2008-10-04T17:09:00.003-04:00

Walk with me as we catch up.

Edwardian endeavors

2008-10-04T17:00:00.003-04:00

Some sketches done while reading some more Arsène Lupin,
and then a lady in period appropriate dress.

Doodle on wood

2008-07-12T16:56:00.002-04:00

Some sherlockian decor.

Redesign and some stuff

2008-07-12T16:21:00.004-04:00

Tomato Flavored has been redesigned.
The website is in the middle of a redesign.

... and I was going to post some end of the year stuff before moving into summer, but it doesn't seem like I have any of it (due to the untimely death of my laptop), so here's some cards. :)

Postcards from the end of the school year:

Happy Summer everyone.

Moustachio

2008-03-06T13:56:00.003-05:00

This book's prompt was Moustache:

The Moustache book rocks.

Little Red

2008-03-04T20:30:00.004-05:00

Character designs for The Little Red Hen.
A class assignment, a children's book thing.

Meviled Eggs!

2008-03-04T19:55:00.005-05:00

After a marathon of Chowder. Lyse suggested that we finally make the "meviled eggs".
(I bought eggs and mayo and paprika a short while before proclaiming I was going to make meviled eggs, but got lazy.)
But we did. And they were awesome. And technicolor. behold:

random!

2008-03-04T19:48:00.004-05:00

Senior Thesis part II

2008-03-04T17:58:00.015-05:00

This semester's thesis project is a comic/picture book/thing.
(I'm hopeful its form will reveal itself to me in due time.)

Here's a concept piece and shots of the story board.

Tadia (pink) and Ozzy (teal) having tea. They have adventures and do fun things. ;)

Sketchbook

2008-02-02T03:16:00.000-05:00

Some sketchbook doodles from the "pass around" sketchbooks.
The prompts are, respectively: The wise fuzz and Forest Life.

The Road to Canterbury

2007-12-15T20:44:00.001-05:00

Final Project for Chaucer class involved illustrations of the Canterbury Tales.
They were nicely bound in a book, for book binding is a fun thing to do every once in a while (once in a long while), and accompanied by passages of text from the Tales.

Tho were the gates shet, and cryed was loude:
"Do now your devoir, yonge knightes proude!"

Gothic Architecture

2007-11-18T19:56:00.000-05:00

The project may be over, but it's spirit will never die.

For Medieval Art and Architecture class, Lyse, Becca, and I teamed up to build cathedral vaults for a project.
The obvious choice of building materials was gingerbread. [note: sarcasm]

Normally a project of this nature would slip under the radar. Pumped out just in time for a quick grade and stashed in the closet or closest garbage can shortly after. However, this particular project was the result of about 20 hours of work and much trial and error, and it occurs to me that it should not see such a lowly fate. (and I think they're actually pretty sweet, considering all the fuss we went through)

Christmas cookies are going to be amazing this year.

Seven of Hearts

2007-11-17T09:11:00.000-05:00

While scanning some things in my sketch book, I came across an older sketch from September. One of the first sketches in this semester's sketch book, a scene from Maurice LeBlanc's Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin.

“You were lucky, my friend, very lucky. I fired at your hand and struck only the revolver.”
Both of them looked at him, surprised. Then he turned to the banker, and said:
“I beg your pardon, monsieur, for meddling in your business; but, really, you play a very poor game. Let me hold the cards.”
Turning again to Varin, Daspry said:
“It’s between us two, comrade, and play fair, if you please. Hearts are trumps, and I play the seven.”
-VI. The Seven of Hearts

That's downright sassy.

[Editor's Note: Maurice LeBlanc was a French author and contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Writing in the same genre, these men are often compared to each other. "Arsene Lupin, gentleman burglar" is often seen as the French answer to Sherlock Holmes, and LeBlanc, himself, had written Holmes into several of his tales of Lupin.]

At the right there is a detail of a rather unsuccessful painting/sketch of another scene from the same story. Arsene tells the narrator the secret of the Seven of Hearts: (narrator pictured)

“Parbleu!”
“Of course, parbleu! But a person has to think of those things.”

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
- IV. The Seven of Hearts
These are a few of my favorite things.

First Post

2007-11-16T23:12:00.000-05:00

The first and completely informal post to this blog, which I'm actually going to use (after having the account for a year). The content of the blog'll be mostly sketches and works in progress. For now, if you look to your right, here's Planting things Rabbit (PtR). She's holding what was supposed to be a pope's hat, which made more sense in context.

Thank you and good night :)