Posts Tagged ‘arthur’
Advent 2016, week 2
Sunday, December 18th, 2016
2016 is almost over!
To celebrate the end of this terrible year, I’m doing one sketch every day. They’re in various media on these cheap-but-archival 5.5″x8.5″ embossed white cards. Some of these will be available as cards, some of them will be in a special sale for my email list next month, and some of them are already spoken for.
Advent 2016 day 11: Kiss my Cat, $30
Advent 2016 day 12: Minimalist TARDIS, sold
Advent 2016 day 13: Silver Ornaments, $10
Advent 2016 day 14: BODE, $5
Advent 2016 day 15: Catboy Arthur, Inception parody art, $25
Advent 2016 day 16: Croissants, $10
Advent 2016 day 17: Ghost Gifts, $5
PS – I’ve had the flu all week, so pardon the varying levels of weirdness and quality.
PPS – #BODE
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: advent 2016, arthur, bode, brush and ink, cat, catboy, christmas, copic marker, doctor who, food, ghost, inception, mistletoe, pen and ink, tardis, watercolor
Taste of the Holidays
Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
Taste of the Holidays, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker,
Inception parody art by Amy Crook
For once, Arthur’s looking awfully pleased at something Eames is offering him. That candy cane Eames is sucking on does look rather tasty, so I don’t blame him!
I know it feels insanely early to be getting holiday cards done, but trust me, I’m running late in the world of retail. Inception fandom is a tiny one, but it’s really the best, nicest fandom, so I had to make a card just for us.
Inception holiday card by Amy Crook on Etsy
Happy Birthday to Frodo Baggins, Bilbo Baggins, and meeeee!
Categories: Card Design, People, Figures and Faces, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: arthur, copic marker, eames, etsy, inception, pen and ink
Engouement
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
Engouement: unreasoning fondness, 7″x5″ pen and ink on paper
The 6th anniversary of Inception was this past weekend, and so here’s one last adorable Arthur and Eames to celebrate.
“Unreasoning fondness” describes a lot of what it’s like to be in fandom, loving something to a ridiculous degree despite its flaws. See also: cats.
What do you have engouement for?
Categories: People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: arthur, eames, inception, pen and ink, word art, word art weds
Arthur and Eames sticker designs
Thursday, July 14th, 2016
Arthur & Eames stickers by Amy Crook
Tumblr is celebrating the 6th anniversary of Inception, and they held an all-day chat dedicated to getting people to finish their works in progress. The lovely person running it asked me to design some stickers for those who participated, so I made Arthur for anyone who came to write at all, and Eames for those who finished & posted something.
I didn’t have a ton of time, and these stickers are actually only 1.5″ high, so I went for a quick, colorful chibi design to give us the essence of these two lovely characters without getting all fussy about the details.
Happy Inceptiversary!
Categories: People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: arthur, chibi, copic marker, eames, inception, inceptiversary, pen and ink
Arthur and Eames bookmarks
Thursday, May 12th, 2016
Eames & Arthur bookmarks, Inception parody art
I actually drew these ages ago for a commission, with grumpy Arthur glaring at a smirking Eames, but due to a hiccup with my scanner and some subsequent fighting with Photoshop, I didn’t get around to posting them.
Eames’ shirt has a lovely pattern in the orange, and his coat suggests a hint of tweed. Arthur’s wearing an elegant windowpane check, subtly patterned tie in a complementary grey, and a cream shirt that sets off his scowl.
Categories: Completed Commissions, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: arthur, bookmark, comic, copic marker, eames, inception, nfs, pen and ink, sold
Periscope
Monday, September 21st, 2015
quick paint sketch of a hummingbird by Amy Crook, livepainted on Periscope
What’s Periscope, you might ask?
- Periscope is an app (owned by Twitter) that lets you make live videos with your phone.
- Periscope videos (or scopes) last 24 hours before they vanish forever.
- I have Periscope set to tweet when I’m on live.
- You can watch on the app or on the web, including the replay (for as long as it lasts).
- You don’t have to make videos to have an account and watch them.
- You can text chat to the person making the video, share the video on Twitter, and give them “hearts” by tapping on the screen during the live feed.
- Yes, it’s yet another form of social media.
- Kind of like Youtube and Snapchat had a baby and sold it to Twitter.
- But I actually really like it.
- My username is, predictably, amysnotdeadyet.
I’m using it to make art! Or, well, to let you watch me make art. I painted the little hummingbird sketch above live on Periscope the other day, and below there’s two more things that owe their lives to me wanting to draw something on Periscope.
Eames & Arthur bookmarks by Amy Crook
Well, actually Eames and Arthur (above) owe their existence in part to Periscope, and in part to wanting to work on their character design for a commission. But the merdude below was one of my first Periscope experiments!
Merdude watercolor sketch by Amy Crook on Periscope
You can see at the top of the page I wrote, “Hi! I can’t see you chat,” because when I’m drawing or painting the phone is up over my shoulder and, like everything on Periscope, the chats are ephemeral and disappear before I can go looking.
I’m amysnotdeadyet on Periscope — come say hi!
Categories: People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange, Words Words Words
Tags: arthur, bookmark, eames, hummingbird, inception, merman, pen and ink, pencil, periscope, sketch, watercolor, words
Prepositioning
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
Prepositioning, an Inception comic by Amy Crook
Sometimes I get dragged into a fandom and it’s instant love, but sometimes a friend will poke and prod and gently tug me toward a fandom for a long, long time before something sticks.
I finally watched Inception for the first time this year, and had to watch it a second time focusing on everything but the main plot to really enjoy it. The setting and secondary characters, however, are an utter delight, which is how we come to this — a typo turned into a terrible pick-up line.
Prepositioning, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper. Send someone a punny proposition today!
Prepositioning, an Inception parody card by Amy Crook at Etsy
Categories: Card Design, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: arthur, comic, copic marker, eames, inception, nfs, pen and ink, sold
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