K. Manske

TORT-2012

2012-01-31T19:31:00.000-08:00

Its time again for the University of Minnesota Law School Musical!
Working once again on the playbill for this year's presentation of "Allawdin" for which I am very excited.

Here is the preliminary art--no color yet still working on overall paint and struggling with some faces.

New year, new art.

2012-01-05T18:19:00.000-08:00

Just painted this in a few hours tonight. Going to try very hard to do more art this year and get it up on this blog and onto my website. So check back often.
This is mostly just color-inspired. My day job is at a florist, so there is a lot of inspiration there as far as color goes.

-Katie

happy holidays

2011-12-11T19:06:00.000-08:00

2011-12-08T21:13:00.001-08:00

Owl_VO3

2011-12-04T20:12:00.001-08:00

Couple changes from client.

Tattoo Progress

2011-12-01T20:05:00.001-08:00

Tattoo progress...new scanner is treating me well so far.

new scanner 11-28-11

2011-11-28T20:16:00.001-08:00

New printer scanner.

So I can finally scan things again!

Tattoo Design

2011-11-20T20:20:00.000-08:00

Working on this for a friend-- Sketched out the idea for now.
Working on some other fine art pieces and just plain working so haven't been posting a bunch!

Day 8- Katara

2011-09-27T20:30:00.000-07:00

Picked Katara form Avatar: The Last Airbender for animated character

Day7

2011-09-22T18:25:00.000-07:00

I use that word alot. It's synonymous with 'sarcastic'.

Day four, Day five, Day six

2011-09-20T15:53:00.000-07:00

Realized I forgot to post these here---still running behind but slowly trying to pick up the slack.

(Veldan from The Shadowleague series by Maggie Fury.)

Day Three - Favorite food

2011-09-05T18:48:00.000-07:00

Day three of the 30 day challenge---doubled up today in an effort to catch up. God I'm so hungry for cheesecake now.

30 Day sketch challenge- Day 2

2011-09-05T14:47:00.000-07:00

20 minute sketch--wasn't feeling spending a lot of time on this one since I'm already behind on the challenge. Day 2 complete.

30 Day Sketch Challenge

2011-09-03T20:16:00.000-07:00

After a busy summer, and a busy August in particular, I thought I'd kick the fall job hunting and working off with this popular 30 day sketch challenge. The idea is to do all 30 drawings on the list in 30 days---so more to come!

-K

Album art

2011-06-02T16:13:00.000-07:00

I also did some album art for a musician a few months back. Here are the main snippets.
Check out Michael's info and music and watch for the upcoming album!
http://www.michaeldermot.com/

-Kmanske

Weddin Invites

2011-06-02T15:34:00.000-07:00

I was approached a little while back to design a wedding invitation for some friend's of the family. They needed it quick and luckily had a very good idea of what they needed! It was fun, and in the end everyone was happy. I just wanted to post a couple piece from the invite package. I also did some RSVP cards and whatnot, but the invite itself and the map are the heart of the package, IMO.
I've changed names and dates to respect the privacy of the couple.

I have family ties in Winona, MN, which is a small town in South Western MN, so it was fun to do make up a simplified map.

-K

Random Graphic Design post

2011-05-19T14:45:00.000-07:00

I don't do graphic design a lot--Its something I need to remedy. I recently did a wedding invitation for a great couple who I know through a family member, and it was a nice change of pace. I'll post it when I get it internet friendly.
But did this today and I'm relatively happy with parts of it. I think its mostly the colors. I usually do such toned down color palettes, it was nice to do something bright and eye catching for a change.
I 'm still usuing photoshop for all of this though. I tried to be good and use illustrator, but its just feels so confining. I really need to up my proficiency in that software. Any suggestions?
Anyway..
I took this...

And made it into this...

I could have probably continued to work on it and get something better, but when I get like one day out of the month to do all of our print and internet marketing, time is generally of the essence.
Oh well! (It also print so much brighter and more fun)
I'll try to find some art to post soon.

-K. Manske

This weekend WIP

2011-05-01T21:38:00.000-07:00

Started this pic this weekend. the hair was different when I started it, so I'll probably post an alternate.

Only partly done with the color-glaze. I got interrupted tonight by all the news! Happy with how it look so far though.

Commissions

2011-04-28T14:29:00.000-07:00

I've been busy lately with a few commissions and some floral holidays.

The commissions are what's relevant, and I'm going to try to post some here.
Starting with this painting I did! It was a request for an old-fashioned romantic scene in front of the couple's favorite restaurant here in the Twin Cities. I'll always wish I had more time on everything I do, but I enjoyed breaking from my usual and painting some architecture.

©Kmanske 2011

Just keep swimming

2011-03-21T18:40:00.000-07:00

It's been an interesting few weeks..or was it a month? I don't even know. My concept of time continues to warp.

I'm just trying to keep moving, keep working, keep my head up (or down), and keep producing art.

Here's some I've done in the last ...while.

This is a fanart piece from a project my good friend Bev has been working on. It's really quite brilliant--I recommend heading over to her blog and taking a look. She's redicu-talanted. The character design and concept belongs to her.

Just a sketchbook page.

Harry Torter

2011-02-20T15:02:00.000-08:00

I did this illustration for the play that the UofM's Law School Theater group "T.O.R.T" (Theater of the Relatively Talentless, I believe) puts on ever year. Last year's production was hilarous so I volunteered to do the playbill art for this year's Harry Potter inspired production. It was a blast.
If you're in the Minneapolis area, it'll be on March 5th and 6th at the Pantages, and it will be hilarious. Get some tickets here!
For more on TORT, check out their site.

Thought I'd throw this up too; working on painting that Celestine sketch. I did find those pictures of the original model as well...

10 points

2011-01-03T19:27:00.000-08:00

to anyone who knows who this is.

I forgot how much I love doing portraiture

(you don't get the points i f you cheat and look at the file name. Ps the points are useless. )

Still not happy with her mouth but this is only after like 2 hours of work so, happy thus far.

-Katie

2010-12-03T23:04:00.000-08:00

Celestine

2010-11-21T21:07:00.000-08:00

So, my boyfriend was a big Warhammer buff back in the day (something I didn't learn until we'd been dating awhile) and has a pretty handsome collection of hand painted miniatures. I thought this was pretty much awesome, as I simply don't have the kind of patience he does where he can paint things that teeny tiny. Suffice it to say he's painted a couple for me as gifts, and the most recent one was particularly cool. She was sitting on my desk today so I drew her. I'm gunna find images I took of the miniature itself and post them when I can but here's this for now.

2010-11-19T13:13:00.000-08:00

Some sketches and...a..Naruto Fanart? What?

2010-11-18T21:30:00.000-08:00

Some pages from my sketchbook over the last couple days.

Okay yeah I'm a little bit of a Naruto fan. The MANGA. The anime is pretty much garbage, but Kishimoto is a fantastic talent. He writes (and draws) fascinating characters, and Naruto is acctually one of those stories where I have no idea how he's going to resolve the conflicts he's created an the character's he's grown. Sometimes I go "Well he's really just gotta kill everyone off now".maybe he will.

I don't know why but Final Fantasy 8 was always a favorite of mine. I could never decide if I liked Rinoa or not but in the end I think I did.

Secret

2010-11-18T21:02:00.000-08:00

Secret commission I was working on for Alex Pelayre The Magnificent. His girlfriend, the great Lisa Price commissioned a bunch of work from a bunch of artists and compiled them. This was my contribution.

um?

2010-11-18T12:32:00.001-08:00

Whoa, has it been since Nov. 2nd since I posted stuff?? ..*runs to get scanner* .
I'm sorry.

Halloween sketch

2010-11-02T21:00:00.001-07:00

Something quick I did up today.

Sketches

2010-10-19T19:19:00.000-07:00

Just some sketches.
©Katie Manske

No art--YET..but DISCOUNTED and FREE COMMISSIONS...read on...

2010-10-11T10:15:00.000-07:00

Edit:

Commissions are going to stay half off for the rest of the year, and I'm still offering free commissions for anyone who went to the "Under Dog Comics" launch party pack in September.

--Katie

Sketch book Dump

2010-09-20T21:23:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook pages.

-Katie

Updatez

2010-09-14T20:25:00.000-07:00

Just a couple of thiiinnngssssssss.

I'm back to being able to work on personal stuff and loving it. I'm taking (free) requests for fan-art to beef up my brand new deviant-art portfolio (laugh), so shoot that on a comment and you'll see it pop up here eventually.

For those wondering what ever happened to that comic book thing? Lets just agree to never speak of it again and leave it at that.

In the mean time enjoy the updates and ...life? I don't know.

-Katie

Seattle Bound

2010-09-01T12:48:00.000-07:00

Its hard to believe its been a year since I've graced the streets of Seattle. I imagine the Lower Queen Anne Zeeks Pizza and the 2nd and Bell Subway miss me just as much as my friends (more, probably.).

Tomorrow evening B and I will be in first class seats on our way to Seattle, and it's surreal. It doesn't feel like it's been a year, and it feels 100% natural to be 'going back'. What's wierd is it's only for 3 nights, not 3 months.

Point being: I'm sorry I haven't gotten around to posting more. I do have things that I want to put up here, but things have been nuts getting ready for this trip, my family taking their own trip, and trying to clear my plate of work (never going to happen). I'll have lots to put up when I return...probably some things that regard the...

PennyArcadeXpo!

It's comepletely rediculous that I never went when I lived 5 blocks from the convention center, but it's a damn good excuse to get out there now. I'm incredably excited. I'm definitly not the gamer I was a few years ago (I rarely play anything now'an days) but its a fantastic craft and a fascinating culture.

Needless to say, I'm pumped to be heading West again. It's my favorite direction to go.

-Katie

The Project

2010-08-18T19:39:00.000-07:00

Alright. I lost a battle with a glass shelf today, and it was a long day besides that. Therefor, I unfortunatly have still not gotten around to posting those other two pieces I wanted to put up here.

I'd still like to get into talking about the comic I've been working on but passive aggressive drama, a long day at work, and the aforementioned mild head injury have just exhausted that drive.

Suffice it to say I've been working with a start up company as they launch their first books. While the politics have been less than fun and it's been a lot of work, I've had a blast working with the other artists and have met a lot of really cool people. It's been fun getting my name out in print too, and while Google Analytics says it's really made no impact, I'm hoping that changes down the line.

I'll post more details, links, and images in the near future. For now you can 'Facebook Search' 'Under Dog Comics' and take a look around.

-Katie

Update

2010-08-15T23:00:00.000-07:00

Ugh I had 2 others on the block to get up here today and I wound up renting movies instead. But that's ok. I still got a lot of work done this evening...here's a little bit of it. Tomorrow I hope to make a post concerning the comic I've been working on. As it is released, I can talk about it more freely and whatnot, but now is not that time.
But my goal is to improve my online presence and update my work and portfolio, so I'm going to try to do better about posting here. Bare (bear?) with me as I make that attempt.

Did this today. I love doing effects. This is an old character I periodically go back to draw; it was fun to do so today.

More to come tomorrow, I think.

-Katie

Updates coming

2010-08-13T10:43:00.001-07:00

Have a few things I want to throw up here this weekend so stay tuned.

-Katie

Why I am dead to the world

2010-07-03T10:08:00.000-07:00

Most everyone knows this already but the reason I stopped posting here is because I haven't had time to draw anything un-related to the project I am currently working on. Hopefully once we launch said project and things get more regular, I'll be able to find time to draw personal stuff, but for now bear with me and check back in a month.

I'll also post when the project is done so ya'll can check it out!

-Katie

painting...again kinda

2010-06-03T17:33:00.000-07:00

Here's the stage I stopped at with this painting. No time to finish right now but when I get the time I will do so.

stage one of painting started tonight

2010-05-22T00:05:00.000-07:00

I hate inking.

Stuff that has been said tonight

2010-05-21T20:28:00.001-07:00

"Kk needs to draaaw so she can update her blooooog."

-yeah , gunna do that tonight.

Sketches

2010-05-04T21:55:00.001-07:00

Sketches 4-21-10

2010-04-21T21:25:00.000-07:00

Wednesday Night

2010-03-31T20:22:00.001-07:00

Monday & Tuesday night

2010-03-30T20:14:00.000-07:00

Weekend Sketches

2010-03-28T19:51:00.000-07:00

I didn't do these every night over the weekend, but I had an idea for them each night and tried to remember. So I sat down and did them tonight and am posting them now. Good enough, right?

Nightly Sketch: 3.24.10 & 3.25.10

2010-03-25T21:39:00.000-07:00

Yeah I did to a sketch page last night but I forgot to upload it. Nearly went to bed tonight without uploading/ drawing again tonight but...I didn't ...cuz Im trying to like...DO this.

Yeah so I write alot when I can't draw...just random crap. So...don't expect pages full of drawings every night. That would be absurd. Like I was an artist or something. Psh...Pshhh.

So heres Wednesday night and tonight's pages.

Lets try something new, shall we?

2010-03-23T21:07:00.000-07:00

My father came downstairs tonight and handed me the weirdest looking planner (?) I'd ever seen. It's a funny shape (larger than an 8.5 x 11 in length) and it really has no logical organizational layout. Its primarily a big blank page with some letters and numbers and a circle in the corner where you COULD potentially write the month...Yea. Intrigued I took the one he offered. I don't do well with planners, since I'm used to just writing everything in my sketchbook. But I do keep a notebook in my purse and I just thought that maybe this weird thing was for me. Well I started drawing in it, and realized it would be an interesting thing if I tried to doodle in it every night before bed...so yeah. We'll see how that goes. Here's tonight's page.

Random

2010-03-07T21:41:00.000-08:00

Sketchbook Sketch

Sketchbook.

2010-02-07T18:15:00.000-08:00

I'm always trying to get into the habit of posting things from my every day sketchbook. I usually don't do so well, but lately I've been bringing colored pencils to work and doodling in my spare time between customers. Mostly I've been going back to add some color to old drawings, which is easy and fun, and I've been happy with the results.

Oh,right.

2010-02-05T22:04:00.000-08:00

I have a blog and I'm supposed to put things on it. I'm an artist.

There are alot of things I'd like to address with this painting but I'm too tired to go in depth.

I will say that it is much different to work on a piece over time and at one's leisure than it is to rush though and finish with a deadline in mind. With this piece, I have no excuse to not go back and fix something I see wrong. Its interesting. Its freeing, and exhausting and frusterating, but it's just good to keep working.

I did a sculpture for the Foot in the Door 4 show at MIA. I'm not going to post pictures right now, since I think they may get put into an online gallery via MIA anyway, but the show opens February 18th. I'm relatively happy with the piece, but I wish I had had more time. I found out about the show about a week before the drop off started, and didn't acctually have much time to sit down and work until 2 days before the drop off started. Then there was the reality that I wouldn't have the time to go drop off the piece. Luckily things fell into line and I was able to finish the piece to my semi-satisfaction and run down to drop it. I'm eternally grateful for the short line, deceptively smooth traffic and lovely co-worker that made it possible to submit, as well as my aunt for telling me about the show in the first place.

-K

Character Sketch_01

2009-11-22T20:53:00.000-08:00

Woo, I'm posting again. Gunna post some character sketches here in the next couple of days.

first blocking pass for character animation final.

2009-09-10T09:27:00.001-07:00

First pass --> about four hours.

-Katie

More sketches

2009-08-28T17:32:00.001-07:00

Another sketchbook page: Trying to post pages as they get filled.

Whaaats Animaaation?

2009-08-27T10:40:00.001-07:00

Animation is the illusion of liiiiiiife.

Sketchbook Dump

2009-08-25T00:02:00.000-07:00

Some scanned sketchbook pages.

More doodles.

2009-08-11T21:53:00.000-07:00

More sketches

2009-08-03T21:34:00.000-07:00

More sketches.

-KT

Sketchbook

2009-07-30T17:06:00.000-07:00

Been awhile since I posted so I thought I'd dump some doodles.

Marcel Take

2009-06-03T18:31:00.000-07:00

I still have to fix his eye's, but this scene is tweened for the most part.

Its nice to get a break from drawing Sheryl and draw Marcel for a change. He's actually fun to draw, but I might be bias...since I've been drawing Sheryl for a few months now.

-KT

Gotta be sneaky

2009-05-23T15:36:00.000-07:00

Also, here's a silly sneaky walk I did for 3D animation. I didn't model or rig the character, just animated it with the help of some Preston Blair 2D poses :).

-KT

Sheryl

2009-05-23T15:34:00.001-07:00

Thought I'd post my favorite piece of Sheryl animation thus far. Work is copyrighted to Pug Buddies production and the MY LUCKY DOG short, coming soon!

Katie

Something funny, something ..something.

2009-04-18T14:19:00.000-07:00

Hmm...been awhile since I updated....again.

Here's something I doodled up the other night:And something funny I did for Blake:

Enjoy

Look but don't touch

-KT

2009-03-30T02:54:00.000-07:00

Just did this tonight and thought I'd put it up.

Edmund, my child...

2009-02-10T09:58:00.000-08:00

So, this is a blog and I suppose it is customary to keep it updated with the projects I am working on.

Well, I'm working on -alot- of projects...it's a very busy quarter, in and outside of school.

My very favorite thus far, has been a product of my Character Modelling class. Basically, we take a character from design to 3-D model in 11 weeks. I've never modelled characters in Maya..or any 3-D program, but I'm excited to get started. Part of the process of getting to know our characters is producing a tangible sculpture. Since coming to this school I have found that sculpting is one of my passions, and I thoroughly enjoy being able to use school time to do it.

My character goes by "Edmund"...I have a bit of an obsession with the name (Count of Monte Cristo origin), and I have pretty much fallen in love with this sculpture. Unfortunatly, it won't fit into my oven...

Enjoy, I'll post some concept art and model sheets for her at a later date, just to give you an idea of how she began.

(scroll to next post for images...)

-Katie

Edmund...

2009-02-10T09:54:00.000-08:00

HAH!

2008-12-14T20:32:00.000-08:00

Finally got this dang thing uploaded. Here is the full image of my Humanities II final.

Concept Art III

2008-12-14T17:57:00.000-08:00

Ok, these are the three finals for Concept Art. I really did not put the time into them that I wanted to...but here they are anyway. I will refrain from uploading a bunch of images..just enough so you get the idea. :) This concludes the Concept Art update for now.

I'd like to end this series of post by linking to the CA page of my Concept Art teacher. Since I know this blog will be visited primarily by AIS students, I hope its ok. You should really check out her work, especially if you're feeling like you need to be inspired to work a little harder.

Click here to check out her page...its full of goodies. Enjoy!

-K. Manske

Concept Art II

2008-12-14T17:24:00.000-08:00

These are some other in-class exercises that we did in Concept Art. A lot of them involved Kathryn reading us a story and having us doodle along, which is always a good brain exercise.

Concept Art I

2008-12-14T17:02:00.000-08:00

The next few posts will contain pieces from last quarter's Concept Art Class. One of my very favorite AIS teachers runs this class, and she basically does an out of this world job. This post contains some doodles that we did over pictures of spackle that she brought in.

Humanities II

2008-12-14T16:33:00.000-08:00

Another humanities painting.

Humanities II final

2008-12-10T20:25:00.000-08:00

Final painting for humanities II. Jacque Louis David inspired.

Exhausted

2008-07-25T22:41:00.000-07:00

I was going to post a comic, as I have tentatively decided that this blog will be rather lighthearted, and the temporary home for what I hope will eventually become a regular comic. Anyway, I was going to post it, and then I started falling asleep as I was drawing. In the meantime, please enjoy this funny doodle page.

Also, a funny video of Joe.

Enjoy,

Manske

Blog.

2008-07-23T22:15:00.000-07:00

This is a blog. Words and pictures go here. More to come.

- K. Manske