Without you this is impossible
When I was sixteen (seventeen?) I was invited to take part in a portfolio review day at the California College of Arts and Crafts. To say that I was excited would be an understatement. With the tireless help of my…
Happy Monday
This past weekend was the Rose City ComicCon and I managed to survive. It was a trial, more in the getting ready than the doing, but that’s not unfamiliar territory for me. I’m still processing all that occurred (I had…
Good bye, Sanity!
There are thirty-seven days left until the Rose City Comic Con, and last week I was concerned that I wasn’t going to have enough to show. My original plan was to spend the last two weeks in July drawing and…
The Bronze Venus
I put my show up today; I think it looks pretty nifty, but there’s no time to rest! I plan on attending a local comic-con as a seller in a couple of months, so I’ve got to get back to…
Little Miss Airman
Recently my mother jokingly suggested I do a portrait of her. Well, I think the joke was more that I should make her look thinner and younger, but I took it and ran with it. Once upon a time she…
Awesomebot LR-4000
A friend of mine is moving to Seattle and I can’t let her go away empty-handed, now can I? No, I didn’t think so. -Valentine
Blaster Bolt Goes Where?
I’m going to have to have a scanning party soon if I plan on keep pulling from the archives.This time we have a Zabrak sniper a friend plays in a Star Wars RPG. I don’t know which is worse: the…
Lieutenant on Deck!
I’m wrapping up a series for a show that I’m having in nineteen days (yikes!), so I’m pulling from the archives again. Incentive to join the Empire never looked so adorable. (Somehow I doubt adorable is the image they were…
Eat your heart out, Quixote!
A persistent fever has made it a little difficult to work on anything new, so for the time being enjoy a portrait I did of a friend and her new guitar. -Valentine
Splish! Splash!
I’ve been watching The Adventures of Korra religiously lately and that of course rekindled my love with bending. A friend fancies herself as a waterbender, so I couldn’t resist. The others are like to follow. -Valentine
the whimsical illustrations of Valentine Barker