Hi. I'm Sarah. I've been drawing for ages. I'm one of those people that started on walls with crayons.
I've adopted the name "Loon" for quite sometime now and a few years ago added "Lady" in front of it. I've had many people inquire about where it came from and thought a good first blog for my art would be to explain it.
I created a character named Dodo when I was merely 9 years old with my friends who created their own characters. We pretended to be them, drew them in comics and created stories. I kept Dodo around and developed her as the years went by, always using her as a reflection of myself. I also said that someday I would use her and make a cartoon show with her and her friends. I added "Loon" to her name and thus she became "Dodo Loon."
In high school I became friends with a wonderful group of 8 other girls. I created characters for all of them and we developed their world and wrote stories and began to call each other by our character's names. So, I was dubbed "Loon" when I was 14 years old.
When I grew older, I added "Lady" to it because I liked the way that it sounded and people started associating me with the bird (because they were unaware of the actual origin of my nickname). I've learned a lot about the bird and have grown to really love it. So I adopted the bird as a sort of mascot.
So now you know.
The image above is a concept of "Lady Loon" that I want to flush out and color. It is a quick caricature of myself because, well, I am the Lady Loon.
Unfortunately, her gown is colored wrong; the chest should be white and the skirt black. She was sketched two weeks ago with pencil and a ball-point pen.
The quick sketch to the right is an old drawing of Dodo. I did this at some point in the past few years. When I drew her in elementary school, she looked rather different. This design (rather sloppy rendition really...) was the one I developed in high school. I have grown to dislike it and have begun to redesign her again. I have a sketch of it that I'll probably show later and I'm rather pleased with it right now :)
That's it for now! I'll hopefully be posting frequently and let you know when I've updated my website!
In high school I became friends with a wonderful group of 8 other girls. I created characters for all of them and we developed their world and wrote stories and began to call each other by our character's names. So, I was dubbed "Loon" when I was 14 years old.
When I grew older, I added "Lady" to it because I liked the way that it sounded and people started associating me with the bird (because they were unaware of the actual origin of my nickname). I've learned a lot about the bird and have grown to really love it. So I adopted the bird as a sort of mascot.
So now you know.
The image above is a concept of "Lady Loon" that I want to flush out and color. It is a quick caricature of myself because, well, I am the Lady Loon.
Unfortunately, her gown is colored wrong; the chest should be white and the skirt black. She was sketched two weeks ago with pencil and a ball-point pen.
The quick sketch to the right is an old drawing of Dodo. I did this at some point in the past few years. When I drew her in elementary school, she looked rather different. This design (rather sloppy rendition really...) was the one I developed in high school. I have grown to dislike it and have begun to redesign her again. I have a sketch of it that I'll probably show later and I'm rather pleased with it right now :)
That's it for now! I'll hopefully be posting frequently and let you know when I've updated my website!