mermaid blur - ACEO sketch graphics

a truth you didn’t believe

is a lie in reverse

ACEO - art trading card - clown smoke kiss sketch pencil

Smoke & Mirrors

I don’t want to set the world on fire
I just want to start a flame in your heart

Mouthful - ACEO artist trading card - gothic, dark, twisted, and weirdly angled

There’s really no middle ground with you

“Either you don’t care at all or you care a hundred and crazy percent.”

“WHAT ELSE IS THERE? … Now saddle up and say goodbye to common sense =D”

I miss Better Off Ted.

vintagy sketch, rough draft, concept sketch

stick with the devil you know

Another rough sketch, based on another vintagy public domain image and very likely to never be finished. My sketch made her look concerned, begging almost, whereas in the photo she looks a bit emotionless. Like apathetic pleading. Hmm… either way, I like how the backgrounds are always so blurry in all these 1900 photographs and [...]

rough sketch of vintage gypsy in-progress

una historia sin tiempo, que no tiene fin

me verás en sueños, me oirás reír…

curiouser & curiouser - purple trees, green grass, photo manipulation by catherine akens

some things only exist when you’re not looking for them

she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. she felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

pen sketch of girl with big lips

a dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask

In the wake of healing brokenness, I find myself extremely distracted by a brain that goes in circles on the same highly fueled subject. UHG.

2010 snow

mind if I join you?

on many levels and with great intensity…

black and white

Nothing but an echo

things aren’t always so black and white, or so they say. sometimes things are ink blotty and bleeding through the edges. the people that surround us, whether they be friends or strangers, pose as reflections – a way to see ourselves mirrored, or projected. helps us improve or grow or move on to become. just [...]