britt c. h.

2011 has been a very Deer Prince centric year, so I figured it was appropriate to wrap it up with him. That and by the most technical of technicalities, he is a reindeer, so it's doubly appropriate.

My name is rather Swedish and one day I realized it would make for a pretty great viking name. So I guess this my completely historically inaccurate viking-sona? Whatever, I just wanted to draw a bunch of fur texture.

Dragon Warrior was a big deal game of my childhood. But it always irked me that the wyverns didn't actually look anything like wyverns should.

Fanart from the a Song of Ice and Fire book series. This particular image from the Storm of Swords book stuck with me and I wanted to give a try drawing it. I admit to having a soft spot for using watercolors to paint blood.

Done for the Bike Art VI show at Altered Esthetics.

Ghost bikes are strange things to me. On one hand they're memorials and often strike me as fairly sad, and as an avid biker they're a sign of caution, but they also can just be part of the everyday landscape and become mundane. This contrast is encapsulated for me by one that I regularly see that is for someone who was only 18 when he died, which is tragic! But I walk past it whenever I simply want to go to a certain food truck for lunch that serves good tacos. I guess this painting is trying to make sense of that. Kinda.

Deer Prince doesn't know why he often get so sad, he just does. Good thing he's so preoccupied with his crying jag, or he'd be really embarrassed that that skeleton crow was witnessing the break down.

12x12" done on a clay board panel, this was for a fundraising auction at the Altered Esthetics gallery.

Digital mock-up for a screen print. Had to do something for FAMIB being around for a decade.

Bigger version of the last painting I did for my daily mini-painting project in 2010.

A mix of watercolor, gouache, and ink. It's taken me a long time to decide on Narancs' Ei form, but I'm pretty happy with the end result. Hopefully I'll still be happy with it in a couple weeks when I have to start drawing it in to the comic.

A design for a screen print, to compliment the Schädelhase design. A direct translation of Deer Prince would be Hirschprinz, but I changed it Rentierfürst to more directly relate back to the character he's based off of, Narancs Rentier, and because I just thought fürst was more fun to say than prinz. I could make up a bs explanation if it was really needed.

A design done to be turned into a screen print for a class I was taking in the Summer of 2010. Schädelhase means SkullBunny in German. It seemed like a natural progression considering I already write her name like a compound word and no one loves compound words more than the Germans.

Painting based off a panel from a mini-comic I made in the spring of 2010.

A super-sized gouache painting to commemorate my 100th straight daily Sloth Fight painting.

A painting done for the Foot In the Door 4 exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Another quick watercolor sketch, but of Tomas this time. I kinda like the effect of the red pencil.

A quick watercolor sketch of Wrey that I did to test some new brushes.

Yup, that sure is a Sexy Anthro Wolf Model.

Pfft, a fox knows nothing of taxes.

A pair of painting done for my baby nephew's nursery.

Trying to make Tomas and Wollen as cute as can be is fun, because its out of character.
The picture got it's title as a joke on what I've had people mistake these characters as over the years.

An early gouache experiment.

I think my first painting with gouache, one of the best, too. I eventually used it for FAMIB's chapter 11 cover.

A younger, angstier, Narancs riding a dopey reindeer. Came out of playing around with my Pentel brush pen.

An experiment with gouache and watercolor on a page torn out of a horrible Dean Koontz novel I bought for a dollar.

A small watercolor drawing of an anthropomorphic bee. Nevermind that drones are female.