After taking a few weeks to sort out my life, I’m happy to tell you I’m a full-time freelance illustrator! You can expect a new blog post once a week sharing my progress as well as some of my practice work so YAY!
Thanks for being patient while I get things rolling again! 
I’m super excited to get started on my work!
I haven’t had a lot of time to sit down and actually learn how to use Adobe Creative Suite. But what I have figured out is a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to being able to sit down in a few weeks and really figure out what I’m doing!
In the meantime, I know I’ve been neglecting the blog, but that will change! Before you know it, you’ll be thinking “Geez how often does this girl need to post, anyway?”
Have a great day!
I need to purchase a scanner. I do not want to purchase a scanner, but unless you can read my mind and see my drawings, I’m going to need to buy a dang scanner.
This is why you haven’t seen anything new! That and I’m trying to learn how to work Photoshop and Illustrator with the idea that if I learn more about them, I won’t NEED a scanner. Maybe. It’s very confusing so I have a Dummies book now. I do have some fun sketches of scenes from work, and I think you’ll enjoy them….eventually I’m going to organize them and post them in a series here.
Just think, before you know it, you’ll be BOMBARDED with my visual thoughts! Until then, I’ll try not to neglect the site too much
Have a wonderful day!
Thank you winloseordraw for awarding me the Sunshine Award! This prize is awarded to “bloggers who positively and creatively inspire others in the blogosphere”.
I’m so geeked and happy! Let’s take a moment to do a happy dance!
As an award winner, I have some questions to answer so you may get go know my awesomeness better. Whee!
THE QUESTIONS
- Favorite Color – I don’t have a favorite! All the colors make me happy…hrmmm…
- Favorite Animal – The Rhinoceros! (you knew that was coming!) I also have a soft spot for ducks.
- Favorite Number – 2,4372 and 3/4
- Favorite Drink – Tea. Although Diet Coke is a close second
- Facebook or Twitter – Twitter! @autumnseybert
- Your Passion – Art and Learning
- Giving or getting presents – Both!
- Favorite Day – Warm Days!
- Favorite Flowers – Daisy and Cactus flower..oooh lillies are nice too….
Sooooo, really it’s difficult for me to pick favorites! But what a fun activity and nice award! As I’m learning more and more about my blog and how to use it, I hope to have a lot of fun with it, and I’ll be looking forward to seeing you!
Thanks for checking my blog out from time to time. If you enjoy my drawings, go check out this website:
Name This Monster- a new monster blog where you get to name the monster. It started off as a Facebook group, then ended up as a blog. It’s still in the new stages of being, but totally creative.
Thanks again! Have a wonderful day!
I love ducks! Sketch and Photoshop
When I was younger, I was always a morning person. A bright and happy ray of sunshine that made non-morning people so pissed off. I never understood it though. I liked mornings.
tra la la! it's morning!
Now that I’m in my 30′s I find more and more of my mornings begin with me looking in the mirror and seeing this reflection
WHY is it so Bright and Loud?!?
I also find that people like to tell me I look tired. Even if I’m not, but especially if I am. Just what every single gal in her 30′s trying to justify that she is NOT a spinster wants to hear.
Wow! You look TIRED!
You know what? I look tired because I AM tired, Sherlock! Tell me, does it look like I want to talk about how tired I look? No?Good!
The only time I ever comment on someone appearance in a negative way is if I think they look like they may barf on me and then pass out. Usually this appearance is accompanied by “I’m going to Barf” breathing, and I really don’t want to have to shower twenty times and burn my brand new jeans.
No, no. I take that back. Once a co-worker talked about how sick she was for like an HOUR, and said “I know I don’t look like it, but I feel so sick” and I said “Oh no, you look terrible.”
I guess she wasn’t that sick, because she stopped complaining to me. And talking to me for the rest of the day. If only she knew how happy that made me. It would have been better if she had retorted
“Wow you look tired!”
Work has been taking up a lot of my time. Having a job does come in handy for dealing with those pesky bill things. And it’s also very helpful in the way of knowing that if I lost a leg in a freak incident with the fax machine, that I would have medical insurance. All in all, there are securities that are offered with having one of those job things.
However, I don’t enjoy my job. I find it to be tiring, and spend most of my time completing reports and listening to people be rude and not understanding why I find it unacceptable for them to curse at me. And with the new extra-busy work weeks, I’m tired in the evenings, and often fall asleep before I can accomplish any drawing, painting or reading about book layouts and dummy books, or anything else I enjoy doing at home.
It was time to sit down and just draw anything! During my lunch break I drew whatever came to mind, which was me sitting at my work desk feeling a bit defeated. I found myself unconsciously hunching over, making faces at the pencil while I was drawing. The joy that comes with bringing something to mind on paper soon lifted my slouch, and I started smiling and humming as the pencil made little scrrritch noises against the paper. The little drawing is a sad thing, but I feel great! I have been keeping some ideas in the back of my mind for playing with later while I watch the Grammy award show. Alas! Back to work. Have a good day!
Working...again
I went to Montana’s Rib & Chop House with some friends . There’s a couple different branches but the one in Meadville, PA was great! It had a nice open atmosphere, a fireplace, and great service. My only complaint about the restaurant itself is that our table was squished against the fireplace, and I became too warm. Thankfully, one of my friends is prone to being cold ALL the time, so she and I switched places. Problem solved!
I ordered my usual bacon cheeseburger. It was huge! Everything there was enough food for at least two meals. But back to my burger-what really caught my eye was the bacon wasn’t sitting in strips, but had been chopped up and covered the entire burger. I wondered how this would impact the texture. But over all, it looked good. It wasn’t greasy or wet looking. The bun seemed intact and the lettuce and tomato weren’t watery (I love washed lettuce, but I don’t need a puddle of water seeping into my fries and hamburger bun to prove that you have clean food.)
As soon as I picked up the burger, a small pile of bacon crumbles plopped out. I adjusted my grip and took my first bite. Yup, this is a good bacon cheeseburger. The flavors were all there, a slight smokiness, just enough salt and cooked medium well. The cheese was just sharp enough to stand out against the burger and the bacon was great, even in it’s crumbly form. I was already wondering when we would come here to eat again, so I could try other burgers, and maybe even that steak my friend ordered which looked, aaamazing.
I missed the texture of a crisp bacon slice with this meal, but the crumbles solved a lot of bacon related issues with cheeseburgers. I didnt’ have any fatty bacon pieces, or stringy pieces that pulled the whole slice into my mouth, almost choking me as I anticipate a normal bite. On second thought, crumbles are a pretty kick-ass idea.
You have to go to Montana, Wyoming or Pennsylvania to eat at Montana’s Rib and Chop House. But if you’re ever in the neighborhood and want some good food, I recommend it
I have enjoyed sharing my various attempts with you. This blog is essently my version of a mother’s refrigerator. “Look what I did today!”
So look what I did today! Last night I bought some very nice ink pens and some a-ok markers I saw some REALLY nice markers too. But I’m thinking at I may wish to either stick to paint or ink, and leave markers for the fridge unless I miraculously improve. I do like the way the color pops out though. So I’m not giving up. I was browsing through various photos of Geisha and found myself thinking “Oooh, I want to draw one! So I looked at several other paintings, drawings, photos and came up with this. I tried out some of the lines found in traditional Japanese paintings. now THOSE guys take their time with a drawing, not just banging something out to decompress after work:
You can see the face is primarily the ink pens, and her clothing is markers. I think the markers are kinda poopy. I’m going to learn to use photoshop to get the clean color effect. Or stick to acrylic paints. Maybe I can get some really great pens in different colors too. Who knows what will happen?This final one is an attempt to find inner peace. She looks like me, but not like me at the same time. I think this is what my inner peace looks like. Interesting but appearing incomplete.
I still have a long way to go, but this is fun. YAY!
Have an awesome day
I’m going to try to not use real people names in my bloggy thing, so instead of referring to my baby nephew by his real name, we’ll use my affectionate name for him-Captain Destructo. His older brother is the Little Prince.
About a month ago, I log onto facebook and see this post from my SIL:
“Captain Destructo has been biting off pieces of his wooden gate. Yes..I mean I have been pulling chunks of wood out of his mouth. So I get the great idea of putting lemon juice (unsweetened) on the top of the gate so when he bites it, it tastes bad. Immediately after putting it on, Captain Destructo bites it, licks his lips and just does it more as well as licks it repeatedly. He LIKES it! AHHHH! What am I going to DO with him!!!!!
mmm... lemony goodness!
So I got this image in my head. My printer/scanner is being a poophead, so I used my phone to share…It’s a quick drawing I did. I’m still trying to find a medium that works best. If you work in illustration, what are some of your favorite tools, and do you have any advice for a fellow artist with dreams of success?
As far as Destructo goes, my poor SIL tried all sorts of safe non-tasty foods. she tried vinegar, but he liked that even more. My brother thinks the combination of lemon and vinegar must’ve made it taste like chips. mmm potato chips…Now I’m hungry! I haven’t heard any more stories of him trying to eat his gate, I think now he’s sampling the sofa…
- mmm… lemony goodness!
