Category: Artwork

  • Sick-Ass Panther + some website maintenance

    Sick-Ass Panther + some website maintenance

    This week, I finished up a new design of a nekomata done in a hybrid style of Japanese ire-zumi tattoos and a sick-ass panther. If you don’t know, a sick-ass panther is a popular way to cover up an old tattoo that you don’t like any more. So much so that it’s become a meme…

  • Handbook for the Recently Deceased

    Handbook for the Recently Deceased

    Most of my designs are either Japanese inspired or anime/video game fan art, but I had to share this story: I started thinking of the movie more and more and had a wave of nostalgia. Can you believe it came out in 1988? Then I realized how old I am. It doesn’t help that I…

  • Ever wonder about the design process?

    Ever wonder about the design process?

    This is from a story I posed on my Instagram that my husband thought would be great to have made into a full post. This is a quick view of my design process in Procreate; I’ll try to do a second part on the charting end I do on my laptop eventually. But as it…

  • We Can Do It

    We Can Do It

    I have done a lot of tattoo inspired fan art over the years. It’s one of my favorite themes to work in because I love tattoos (I wish I could get more even). And since I do every pixel (aka diamond) for the diamond art, it was a fun challenge to redraw in this style.…

  • Crossroads: Mejiro

    Crossroads: Mejiro

    It was only fitting that this be the first custom design I do for a test, and let me tell you why. I love mejiro. They’re also known as the “Japanese White-Eye.” They’re these cute little chonky bright green birds that are a joy to see in the bamboo fields where they tend to live.…