Closet-Space (the old OLD sketch blog)

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Dancers

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womanthology

2011-08-08T21:53:00.000-07:00

RachelSummers

2011-08-08T18:54:00.000-07:00

originals sale

2011-08-04T12:09:00.000-07:00

Nico Alice commissions

2011-08-03T18:02:00.001-07:00

Rachel Summers commission roughs

2011-08-03T11:27:00.001-07:00

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SB inks

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ConnieBravo

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New blog!

2011-06-08T10:22:00.000-07:00

Hello folks! I no longer update here but at http://ktshy.blogspot.com, please check out the new site! :)

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bob ross commission

2011-06-01T15:24:00.001-07:00

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commission

2011-04-03T23:16:00.001-07:00

We've moved!

2007-05-31T16:02:00.000-07:00

Due to that great spring-cleaning phenomenon, I've relocated to a NEW BLOG! Check out ktshy.blogspot.com for new kt-updates (as well as a few oldies put up for portfolio reasons). I'll keep this one open for archives and the like, but no longer shall I update here! Thanks for keeping track of me!
See ya! :)

Sweatin' to the Oldies

2007-04-10T19:52:00.000-07:00

Aaaaargh! It's my old 2nd year lip sync assignment! The animation's pretty painful, but overall it still makes me giggle, Shagster has such great voice acting talent. Be sure to CRANK THE VOLUME (it seemed pretty quiet on my computer, is all.)

Also, I did a little bit of blog organizing with the labels. If you look to the right, there's a "My Art" list, which makes it super easy to navigate through my work.

Commission #14

2007-04-08T02:35:00.001-07:00

Commission #12 and #18

2007-04-07T16:50:00.000-07:00

2007-04-04T07:27:00.000-07:00

Hahaha! Our Girlamatic Gammiversary crossover was tagged on Journalista: The comics journal weblog, and guess who's drawing was used as a thumbnail? *blush* Yes, this is one of the (more absurd lookin') panels of the cross-over comic I did for Traci Spencer's Compass.
You can see the quick snippet article in the journal's April 4th edition, located down the page under the "Digital Comics" heading.

Gammiversary!

2007-03-28T20:53:00.000-07:00

WOW! You guys hafta check out the Gammiversary pic Michelle Mauk of Voyage Moyen made for Shrub Monkeys! It's so cool! See all three pages at Girlamatic!

Shrub Monkeys #43, #44 and other!

2007-03-26T22:25:00.000-07:00

Back from an AWESOME trip to Ottawa, here's a bunch of posts!

New Shrub Monkeys #43 can be seen over at Girlamatic. I don't like posting them here in full because it always gives away the punchline.

(So I go ahead and post in full anyways...) Shrub Monkeys #44 can be full viewed on my deviant art page by clicking: here! I'm running a fun little contest and some super wonderful fans are participating! Check out there entries on my DA journal: here!

OBVIOUSLY I didn't draw this, it's from the Golden Book exibit going on at Disney World. The illustrations are so lovely I wish I could see them in person, but as that is an impossibility at the moment, I can enjoy them through the photographs that Potato Farm Girl has so lovingly displayed on her blog. View them: here!

Commission # 15

2007-03-17T14:50:00.000-07:00

This was commissioned by Maria, a very sweet young lady, for her husband who'll be leaving shortly for army duty.

playin' with food...

2007-03-11T12:21:00.001-07:00

Creepy Sun

2007-03-04T18:54:00.000-08:00

Something for a film project that Shagster is working on. He'll be adding sun rays in post (because my tablet's "gawbage sistah!")

New Years Piggies in COLOUR!

2007-03-04T00:36:00.000-08:00

Shrub Monkeys #42

2007-02-26T23:27:00.000-08:00

Click on the title link to see the full comic on my deviant art page. Click THAT comic to see it's full size.

sketchy doodles

2007-02-24T22:11:00.000-08:00

Shagster in Sparta

2007-02-22T23:25:00.000-08:00

*click to view the gif in all its glory*

Hey look! Me and Shagster learned how to make animated gifs! This was also a test to see if I could figure out how to do those cool colour desaturations you see in the movies. Meh, I'm learning. Shagster was an ideal candidate for this pic once I found a photo of him in the archives with a massive beard-chin rival only to Gerard Butler's in 300. HA!

ALSO! Here's something stupidly hilarious that a nice commentator at deviantart sent me the link to: http://thisisspartaaa.ytmnd.com/ It actually made me and Shagster teary eyed with wheezy, obnoxious 2am giggles. I love it!

Happy New Year!

2007-02-22T20:28:00.000-08:00

Okay, I'm a few days late, but it's still the year of the pig, so it's all good! My mum, sister and I all share the pig as our chinese zodiac, so I'm drawing a little piece with us all as piggies. I'm posting the scan just incase I mess up the inks, because I'm pretty pleased with the way the sketch turned out. :) I loves my girls.

This is madness...

2007-02-22T13:22:00.000-08:00

So I got to see an advanced screening of Frank Miller's 300 at the IMAX downtown yesterday, and it was preeeeeeetty sweet! Gory as heck but really stylish! And free! Which makes me feel kind of guilty because I wouldn't have minded paying for that movie (I've wasted enough on some real crap films over the past year, I wouldn't mind endorsing some I actually liked).

Anyhoo, here's a commission I did for Jim. It's pretty wacky cuz he commissioned me to draw my own character-avatar zombified as part of a link page for a comic he's working on.
Shagster was kind enough to inform me that the hands are wonky. DANGIT! I need to practice life drawing!

Shrub Monkeys #41

2007-02-15T14:47:00.000-08:00

Snail hat!

2007-02-07T09:56:00.000-08:00

A thank you drawing for the fine folks at Deviant Art.

Colour doesn't seem to come easy to me these days. Bernerd suggested some colour theory books a while ago, I think I'll have to pick those off've amazon sometime soon.

Shrub Monkeys #40

2007-02-05T20:42:00.001-08:00

Because I'm mega busy at work and pretty behind on commissions, my brother's gone and drawn this week's Shrub Monkey strip for me.

If you click on the title link it'll take you to the larger file on my deviant art page... I usually send the link to girlamatic but I keep having to update the link once a new comic appears and right now I'm super lazy.

Why Andrea is amazing!

2007-01-31T21:30:00.000-08:00

This is from a while back, but now that I have the photo I must post it! Andrea suprised me for my birthday by leaving this adorable gift basket at my desk at work. It was full of candy sushi that she made herself! The roll was a brownie, and the "sea weed" and "tamago" (egg) was coloured marzipan. And the little fish eggs were jellie bellies (vanilla and strawberry if I can remember correctly) and stuck on with icing. It was delicious! But barely lasted the day (I just couldn't stop picking at it, it was so good!) Thanks Andrea! :)

Why my brother is awesome

2007-01-29T21:19:00.000-08:00

Check it! It's an ad for some upcoming tutorial series my brother Shagster's working on. Funny stuff, there's even an animated bit in there I helped with! Well, I drew his likeness, he did the animation... still... check it! :)

Tired...

2007-01-22T20:47:00.000-08:00

My excuse for no Shrub Monkey to Girlamatic this week.
Definetly starting to feel like butter scraped over too much bread, here.

Cinderella

2007-01-20T15:15:00.000-08:00

The colour job was a disaster, she looks like a giant marshmallow with hooker make up, but I like the drawin' so I'm keepin' it.

Sleeping Beauty

2007-01-15T21:06:00.000-08:00

Just a sketch I fancied up. Drew this on the train back from work today. *zzzz*

Shrub Monkeys #38

2007-01-08T19:54:00.000-08:00

Okay, maybe "traction" is too strong a word. But MAN do I love that wii, it's so fun!

Our list of damage so far totals thus:

Shagster: smacked the ceiling fan, knocked a glass of water all over the coffee table and a phone.

kt (me): broke a lamp, smacked my boyfriend on the wrist... hard, and massive aches and pains all over my body from playing wii sports with no prior or post stretchings.

I can't wait to play again! :)

Playing with trias

2007-01-04T20:46:00.000-08:00

Okaaay, I'm not extatic with the way this turned out (and the scan isn't fantastic) but I believe no piece is a failure as long as you learn from it. What I've learned: tria on top of blue pencil = NOT good. I'd hoped it'd cover up the parts I couldn't quite erase, instead it gave the picture a dirty look. Secondly... I have nooo clue how to work lighting and tone on skin. So I think I'll be focusing on that for the next little while.
After using photoshop for so long, it was a bit frenzied (but also fun!) working with trias again, as there's no undue button and I have to work fast if I want colours to blend.

A note about the subject matter: This is Mian Toris from the manga Caravan Kid, which was one of the first manga graphic novel's I've read, along side the Adam Warren Dirty Pair books. I'm on a huge nastolgia trip here folks, so bear with me as my various colour and medium dapplings will all star anime/manga, cartoon and comic heroines from my past. (If I have no clue for subject I default to pinups)

... I don't know why there's a huge green jelly bean chasing her... that's just life, I guess.

mmm.. sacraligious...

2007-01-04T18:57:00.000-08:00

I explored Niagra over the winter break with five of my favouritest people on the planet, and look what we found in one of the town's Christmas stores: A smores nativity set!!!! Who'da thunk!? (You can't really tell in the picture, but baby Jesus is smiling)

Commission:Fire Emblem

2007-01-02T20:46:00.000-08:00

This is a commission I did of the two main characters from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, for a very nice and patient guy named Tom. This was painted in photoshop (my standard medium) and I'm quite pleased with the way the sky turned out!

Shrub Monkeys #36 Happy Holidays!

2006-12-26T15:31:00.000-08:00

Happy Christmas!

2006-12-25T12:37:00.000-08:00

Actually this is a last-minute commission not my Christmas card for this year... but as I haven't quite made a Christmas card yet it'll do for now! Gerry helped me out a lot with this one (composition and colour), thanks Ger! Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Website update

2006-12-16T19:46:00.000-08:00

I added a "sketch" section to my portfolio page, which is basically a couple sketches and some shrub monkeys. That is all!

Shrub Monkeys #35

2006-12-13T20:50:00.000-08:00

**Click title link to see full comic at girlamatic.com**

Maybe I'm just too old to understand, but why do so many girls dress like this downtown?

Demented little women

2006-12-08T20:08:00.000-08:00

This was too scary not to share. My little sis was looking on our shelf for a family christmas movie to watch, and when she said "How about 'Demented little women'?" I had to see what she was talking about. Yes, the cover shows a regular happy Christmas scene with Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women characters... but why do they all look like they're possessed by satan???

Shrub Monkeys #34

2006-12-06T20:23:00.000-08:00

**Click the title link to view full comic @ girlamatic.com**

As my mom pointed out, these past 2 comics make it look like I dislike Toronto, NOT SO! I just dislike smelly cities. Otherwise Toronto has lots of good points. Like... um... tons of sushi places! Aaaaand... awesome stores! And comic shops! Yah!

Shrub Monkeys #33

2006-11-29T22:28:00.000-08:00

Sketches

2006-11-29T22:19:00.000-08:00

*sigh* I need to be more like superman...
ANYHOO, these are just some character doodles. I may do something with this. Provided no one's already got something exactly like it. Boy do I feel stressed out these days... :P

Cartoonify thyself!

2006-11-26T20:50:00.000-08:00

This week's topic at Artjumble was to draw yerself in the style of your favourite cartoon show. For the life of me, I CANNOT pick a favourite, I haven't had a "favourite" since I was 12 and Sailor Moon first hit the screens. There's lots of stuff I liiike, but it was so hard to choose that I just went with the smart-arse approach: Yeaaaaah Clutch Cargo!Then I felt like being nicer to myself and so drew a Ruby Gloom esque picture. It's a really cute show and my lil' sis absolutely adores it! ... man, with all the photos, drawings and comics of myself I keep posting , you all must think I'm the world's most narcissistic person...

H.E.S blog!

2006-11-16T20:29:00.000-08:00

For those who don't know yet, my little sister has started her own blog! Check it out at duckwithumbrella.blogspot.com for the kinds of cute drawings and strange political (at least I think it's political...) cutout humour that only an 11 year old brain can cook up!

Shrub Monkeys #32, Medieval Misgivings...

2006-11-16T20:12:00.000-08:00

**Click title link to view larger strip at girlamatic.com**

A bunch of friends (of mine and my boyfriend Gerry) came down from Ottawa a few weekends ago and all of us went to Medieval Times in Toronto. It was aweome! Highly recommended if there's one in your area. We got so into it that we'd be standing and screaming for blood during the sword fights, we didn't say anything foul, but I think we were freaking out the family in front of us. Whoops!
You can tell my great love for backgrounds in this particular comic. BAH! I want to do serious comics some day soon, so I know I have to get better, but at this point in time I find no pleasure in drawing backgrounds. I want to put as few lines down as possible to get the joke across and that's it!

Shrub Monkeys 31 and a hot potato!

2006-11-10T22:10:00.000-08:00

Hoooo man, I've been living and breathing work for the past week and a half. Thank goodness for weekends, I felt a brain crash coming on. Now for some random sillies... smile folks! It's the weekend fer gosh sake! (I really need to start studying colour theory... I need more hours in the day! )

Again, seeing as blogger never opens my Shrub Monkeys the proper size, click the title link, it'll re-direct you to girlamatic.com where I post these.

Gamoween!

2006-10-30T22:20:00.000-08:00

Over at girlamatic.com we had "GAM-o-ween" week where we've all swapped characters, put them in random assigned costumes and drew pictures of them all at a big ol' Halloween party!
Dale Ingram of "Hold my Life" draws Shagster and I: here!
And I was given Rachael Moore's "Unicorn Campaign" characters, dressed as Indian dieties! Good times!

**click title link to see full picture**

pum-po-kin carvin' 06

2006-10-30T18:40:00.000-08:00

Lil' beginner's pumpkin carving attempt #2: enraged squirrel... complete with walnuts!

KT n' H.E.S Halloweenies!

2006-10-29T12:17:00.000-08:00

My lil' sister's and my costume. She's going as "Aunty Monica" this year. You know, from the song:"I have an aunty, an aunty Monica, and when we go shopping, they all say 'ooh la la' because her feather's a swingin', her feather's swingin' so! Her feather's a swingin', her feather's swingin' so..." etc etc, on to her boa, her purse, and things like that.If you even went to girl guide camp you probably know exactly what I'm babbling about here. OK, time to do some commissions. I'm getting sick though, *cough* *snuffle* *snff

Me and Sleenaw getting into the Halloween spirit

2006-10-22T14:19:00.000-07:00

Malabar on Queen and McCaul St. has the bestest rental gowns I ever did see. I'm not sure if we were allowed to take pictures in their costumes, but there were no discouraging signs... (therefore this is kinda like free advertisement for anyone who reads this blog)
I wish it were more common place to dress up in gowns like these, or that I could find random opportunities to do so. *sigh*

Cabaret Vampiress

2006-10-18T21:23:00.000-07:00

This is what i'm going to attempt for my Halloween costume... (don't worry mom, it won't look this skanky)

... why the heck do I always draw my girls with such massive thighs? It's almost subconcious! I don't even know I've done it til the picture is coloured.

I've got quite a bit on my plate right now with work, hitting the gym, I HAVE to get through about 6 commissions (I've left those people hanging too long), and 3 gam-o-ween illustrations for girlamatic.com. Oh, and also next week's shrub monkey. I'm feeling stretched pretty thin as it is... I hope I don't get sick... sniff. I'm feeling very much like Bilbo right now...like butter scraped over too much bread...

A happy belated b-day posting to Gerry-kins!

2006-10-18T05:34:00.000-07:00

Shrub Monkey 30

2006-10-17T17:17:00.000-07:00

Blah... icky unproductive day today.

Shrub Monkey #29

2006-10-10T17:59:00.000-07:00

New comic! Click the title link if the image uploads too small to read on blogger. Also, coming soon from girlamatic:

duh duh duh... I'm being mysterious here!

24 hours and not a single comic!

2006-10-08T00:13:00.000-07:00

Today is 24-hour-comic day so guess what I did??? Absolutely nothing save this Zelda sketch. BAH! I had such good intentions too! Today I was going to polish off a few commissions, do a whole bunch of Shrub Monkeys (so as to have a reserve ready for girlamatic) and get another Potterific done. Rather, I went for a wonderful autumn hike with my parents, checked out a halloween costume shop and some sushi, recieved a fantastic package in the mail (copies of a Harry Potter fanzine put together by various web artists and published VERY nicely by Johane Matte) and watched the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice (for the first time) and fell completely in love with Colin Firth all over again!
Somewhere in there I put on the Legend of Zelda cartoon from the Super Mario Bros Super Show (that Steven bought) for nostalgia sake... just something to play in the background while I sketched, but instead I got so wrapped up in it. It's just sooo bad it's good! And Link's personality is so drastically different from what you'd expect playing the games that it's hilarious! I can't picture Link from "Twilight Princess" trying to steal smooches or throw his indignant "excuuuuuuuuse me, princess" catch phrase at Zelda...

sketch dump #2

2006-10-04T19:20:00.000-07:00

My latest sketch dump. The fact that I draw strangely structured (or not structured) ladies at work (during breaks) shows that I HAVE to start going to lifedrawing again. Like, NOW! I'm in nekid-people-withdrawl.

Mindless doodles, just lettin' my brain wander...

The guy at the bottom was born to be charicatured, so I'm sad I wasn't able to capture him too well. BUT it's a good thing in that it's making me practice more.

Shrub Monkeys #28

2006-10-02T22:19:00.000-07:00

You can tell I was having an awesome day at the studio when I drew this...

Luna doing that stupid cat thing

2006-09-30T20:46:00.000-07:00

Just another Sailor Moon doodle. Though "Potato Farm Girl" has the funniest damn Luna design ever. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5588/1051/1600/sailorspoonlo.jpg You can check out the rest of her blog by clicking on her name in my "other" links.

mercury has stoopid powers

2006-09-30T15:33:00.000-07:00

My sister's been watching the original japanese sailor moon dvds, and I couldn't help getting nostalgic seeing those short skirted crazy teens running around on screen. I was such a massive Sailor Moon fan back when it came out... I'dve been the same age Heather is now! Oy! I wish they had the american version on dvd though... die-hard fans will hate me for saying this but I prefer the colour touchups and the voices and the music in the version that was released here. Some of the.. okay, ALL of the music makes me cringe in the original japanese version. But yah! Hurray for the days of yore... and Mercury has always been my favourite senshi... even though she has the stupidist pose and the stupidest powers... somehow I was able to relate to her... or maybe I'm just a fan of all things blue.

Shrub Monkeys #27

2006-09-28T21:05:00.002-07:00

**click title link for full view**
I was kinda sick the day before this was due for uploading on girlamatic, and promised to colour it when I got the chance... but when I started doing so today I went "baaaaah, forget that." Shrub Monkeys is supposed to be quick and experimental anyway, and slapping blue on top aint gonna make the strip read 200% clearer...... ok, fine, you got me, I'm just being lazy......

I wanna vacation...

Shrub Monkeys #26

2006-09-20T17:39:00.000-07:00

If it opens too small, click the title link and it'll take you to the Girlamatic site. Oh, and a note to all you self-proffessed bakers, never think that by substituting ingrediants with things that SEEM similar that'll you'll get anything close to tasty... I can't remember all the things I ad-libbed when I made brownies a couple years ago, but I can still remember how AWFUL they tasted.

And the Oscar goes to... moi?

2006-09-20T13:39:00.000-07:00

Hmm! Apparently Caillou season 3 (first show I ever worked on) won some kinda award for best canadian animated tv series production. How about that? You proud of me yet, mum? Just kiddin', o' course you are...

Click the title link to check out the the AWN article (in case you wanna confirm I'm not making all this up).

Simply Potterific #24

2006-09-15T21:35:00.000-07:00

New Potter comic! Click on the title link to see the whole thing.

I don't have too much to say today, so instead I'll do a lil' show and tell.

Movie recommendation of the week: Idiocracy (go see now, it's a real fun movie... kinda scary too as it's a look at where our society miiiiiight be heading, but still really funny!)

My absolute favourite artist today: http://dermotpower.com This guy did concept art for the Harry Potter movies, the new Star Wars, and some awesome Willy Wonka concept art amongst other projects. Go! Get inspired!

Have a good weekend y'all! Looks like I'm gonna be doing alot of cleaning around the house... oh, and checking out the local abandoned renaissance faire grounds! Wee!

Sketchy-Poohs

2006-09-12T19:23:00.000-07:00

Did the first two during some quiet time at work. I drew mah doggy down at the bottom there, she used to splay out all over the kitchen floor and her Gene Simmons like tongue was sooo hilarious.

Mermaid art tag at http://elbowbite.blogspot.com/ ... check it ouuuuut!

Shrub Monkeys #25

2006-09-12T11:33:00.000-07:00

Changed the template a bit, got tired of all that green considering blue is more of my favourite colour anyway... well, actually pink is, but if I post on a bright pink blog all the boys might run away.

SHRUB MONKEEEEEEY!

Belated Boluda Birthday

2006-09-07T21:08:00.000-07:00

T'was Lucia's birthday two weeks ago! I miss you Lu!!!! But not the mate, ja ja ja!

Who wants to put their shoes on? Not me, my friend.

2006-09-04T18:52:00.000-07:00

It's official! Shrub Monkeys just launched today as a part of the line up at www.girlamatic.com. You can check out the press release here: http://www.girlamatic.com//comics/gam-edit.php?view=archive&chapter=13069
The past few days have been incredible. For one, it was my birthday thursday , now I'm 23, and I got to see Monty Python's Spamalot which is BRILLIANT, a must see. Hilarious. Friday I went to see Video Games Live, the symphony orchestrated event, with my siblings, and it was beautiful. The big screen with awesome clips, the lighting on the musicians, the giant froger game, the INSANE piano playing dude who could play mario theme songs at top speed BLIND-FOLDED! Oh! It was too much! So good! Another "must see." Sunday I went to the comic expo with Steven and Heather, and bumped into a bunch of friends there. It was alot of fun and I've decided to finally get my act together and set up a table for next year! So... now I have to put stuff together for it ... ack! Well, it's a year away, most deadlines considered that's not bad at all. But still, as Steven can attest I tend to procrastinate aLOT when it comes to my own work. Ah well.

Some pics from the convention:

A bunch of ruffians we ran into.

Steven hanging with his new buddy and doing something unordinary... wearing glasses.