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GeekGirlCon 2011

[GeekGirlCon Map]

GeekGirlCon is this Saturday and Sunday (Oct 8th & 9th) people!!! I am on the center aisle, right in the middle. More directions are here: http://www.geekgirlcon.com/con/northwest-rooms-seattle-center-maps/. I will have lots of Middleman "Pike" posters and Firefly and Farscape fanarts and my typical overabundance of prints and charms and stickers. And bookmarks. No one ever buys the bookmarks, you know, so there will always be bookmarks.

And, if that wasn't incentive enough, I will be wearing my Wendy Watson costume on Saturday (Middleman in tow). It is an awesome costume. Seriously. You are going to want to see it. :D

Posted 2011.10.06 18:05 | Last modified 2011.10.06 18:07 | Leave a reply

CSTS Seattle 2011 Entry

CSTS 2011 Contest Entry (Seattle) (mleiv.com)
image © 2011 mleiv
Medium: Illustrator Size: 8"x10"

*UPDATE!* The Seattle Browncoats decided to print my design up as tshirts anyway! YAY! \dance/ You can buy it through the CSTS event site for $20:

CSTS Seattle 2011 tickets/tshirts: http://www.cstsseattle.org/tickets.html

If the shirts are at all like last year's, they are very thick cotton and the women's sizes tend to run big. Proceeds go to a good cause (or in this case, many good causes). And Seattle locals, I hope to see you at the screening too!

This was my entry to CSTS Seattle's art contest this year. It didn't win. Meh, I still liked it, although it was certainly not as awesome as last year's entry: http://mleiv.com/csts-2010-contest-entry-seattle/
Posted 2011.08.14 17:42 | Last modified 2011.08.29 16:09 | Leave a reply

Firefly ATCs

Firefly ATCs (mleiv.com)
Creative Commons Licenseimage © 2010 mleiv
Medium: pencil Size: 2.5"x3.5"
Did some Firefly drawing this past week. These took far to long to draw and a few of them turned out less awesome than I had been hoping. I think I've been out of practice for too long (my normal sketchbook? untouched in MONTHS). Well, part of what I intend to rectify the next few weeks...
Posted 2010.06.19 21:05 | Last modified 2010.06.19 21:05 | 2 Comments

CSTS 2010 Contest Entry (Seattle)

CSTS 2010 Contest Entry (Seattle) (mleiv.com)
image © 2010 mleiv
Medium: Illustrator Size: 8"x10"
I've always been the type to watch my Serenity obsessively at home, alone, y'know, like River would. Mumbling to myself and sorting through unlabelled cans of food. :P

But when the Seattle Browncoats asked for a local design for the Can't Stop The Serenity charity screening this summer, I just had to draw this. It was screaming to be made.

And I did it all with a mouse. Because my tablet wasn't handy. And then it took all night and I am feeling just a teensy bit punchy from the fact that I haven't slept. :P

Oh, and there was a two-color limitation. I wanted to do it orange and gray-green (like, the Emerald City, y'know?), but the red was more essential to the Serenity sun, so I had to throw out the green.
Posted 2010.03.04 17:39 | Last modified 2010.03.04 17:39 | 9 Comments

An Entire Sketchbook v2 – 1 of 2

An Entire Sketchbook v2 - 1 of 2 (mleiv.com)
Creative Commons Licenseimage © 2009 mleiv
Medium: Pencil Size: 5X7"
I just finished another sketchbook! I am still using the ratty 5x7 moleskine variety. It's just less commitment. :P

These are still mostly drawn from TV, although since I moved I no longer have a Tivo, so I am having to do more DVD (which sucks on apple - they may make great software on the whole but frontrow + mac remote is THE WORST way to navigate a dvd. Seriously, Steve Jobs, IT SUCKS!).

Most of the drawings represent shows I love and watch repeatedly, but I'm just going to call out The Painted Veil as the worst bit of romantic drivel ever made. It is so incredibly bad that the Bronte sisters would have liked it.
Posted 2009.11.22 14:03 | Last modified 2011.03.10 10:27 | Leave a reply

An Entire Sketchbook – 3 of 3

An Entire Sketchbook - 3 of 3 (mleiv.com)
Creative Commons Licenseimage © 2008 mleiv
Medium: Pencil Size: 5X7"
I just filled up my sketchbook. It was a 5X7" cheap-o brown moleskine. I think for my next one I will upgrade to the real moleskine - hopefully it has nicer paper :)

Most of the drawings are from paused TV (a few internet or magazine thrown in). Please don't assume I like a show because I drew it - ha! I just took whatever was on at the time.

None of the drawings has been removed except for the occasional personal doodle, so you can see my mistakes alongside my (much rarer) successes.
Posted 2008.04.09 20:28 | Last modified 2008.04.09 20:28 | 2 Comments

An Entire Sketchbook – 1 of 3

An Entire Sketchbook - 1 of 3 (mleiv.com)
Creative Commons Licenseimage © 2008 mleiv
Medium: Pencil Size: 5X7"
I just filled up my sketchbook. It was a 5X7" cheap-o brown moleskine. I think for my next one I will upgrade to the real moleskine - hopefully it has nicer paper :)

Most of the drawings are from paused TV (a few internet or magazine thrown in). Please don't assume I like a show because I drew it - ha! I just took whatever was on at the time.

None of the drawings has been removed except for the occasional personal doodle, so you can see my mistakes alongside my (much rarer) successes.
Posted 2008.04.09 20:21 | Last modified 2008.04.09 20:21 | Leave a reply

Favorite Movies

I love a lot of movies. I don't go see movies, mind you, but I acquire DVDs and watch them at home... over and over and over again. I have tried other categorizations, but here they are under What I Liked Best.

Wickedly Quotable

I love witty reparte and a bit of dark humor.

BlackAdder - "Cold is God's way of telling us to burn more Catholics."

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - "We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see."

Army of Darkness - "I got news for you pal, you ain't leadin' but two things right now. Jack and shit, and Jack left town."

Office Space - "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."

Firefly - "Oh, I'm gonna go to the special hell."

The Long Kiss Goodnight - "Are you just stupid or did you take lessons?" "I took lessons!"

L.A. Story - "With a financial statement like zis, you think you can have ze duck?"

Old French Toys

You know those French dolls, with the little painted china faces and 19th century costumes: harlequins, ballerinas, and aristocrats. And complex machinery with big dirty spokes and pulleys and more twists than a Durer labyrinth. If you like Gilliam, you know what I'm talking about. I love that whole look, the grimey, broken, abandoned ambience made all the more shocking by its innocent and playful origins.

Labyrinth - The Venetian masked ball.

Batman Returns - An old-fashioned Christmas, abandoned Zoo, evil circus clowns, and the ballerina with her poodle.

Lexx (Season 3) - The planet Fire.

The Crow: City of Angels - Beautiful, but run-down.

Abandoned Buildings

I am a sucker for scary movies with abandoned buildings... or abandoned ships, or abandoned cities, whatever. This means I also love most zombie flicks. The distinction between this category and the preceding one is often blurred, which is just more awesome, IMO.

The Frighteners - The hospital scenes.

Event Horizon - The abandoned language is a special bonus.

Resident Evil - The progressive nature of abandonment - building, city, planet - is fucking awesome.

Anything with Bruce Campbell

Runners-up in the Will-Watch-For-Cute-Guy are Jean Reno, Jeremy Piven, Scott Cohen, John Hannah, Seth Green, Malcolm Mcdowell, and Danny Elfman (well, I mostly watch movies for his soundtracks, but he was in The Gift).

Cartoons

Lilo & Stitch. Yup, I am a total sucker for cute widdle alien pets.

Invader Zim - "They're made of WAFFLE!"

Posted 2005.10.27 14:06 | Last modified 2005.10.27 14:06 | Leave a reply

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