dreams

i have a feeling if i never really began my passion for art, i would have driven to becoming a teacher, i would have probably dedicated more time to studying than drawing, i probably would have been a "smart" girl. i would have made things easier for my parents and made them very proud.
but to not draw, i would be soulless, i'd never have gained a part of me that defines my actions and drives my d...reams. i would starve for art, be without a home, sacrifice my sanity to draw.
i could never have had that drive for anything else, no other profession that lies outside that dimension would be as dear, nothing would be as important.
a lot of people in this world give up on dreams for practicality. well, if you know me, i kick practicality in the ass.

Me and a Cow

 Me....

Asked a girl I was babysitting to draw a cow, and this is the interpretation of what she draw. Personally, I want one.

Clothes

Clothing options... Looks better on paper than in real life....

ADVENTURE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Various dress designs for the characters on the show, two of them gender swapped..... that is the correct term right?

Ummm.... various made up princesses. Party Princess, Space Princess, Snake Princess, Sack.... Princess? and the Middle one, not so sure.

Weekend doodles

 Sad but true

 Gorillaz OC

 Doodles of the Gorillaz

 True Story

Needed some practice

IMPORTANT STUFF

We had to draw clothes on mannequin people with no faces and had no anatomically correct body parts AT ALL, so to make up for it I made this handsome gentleman even more handsomer. Isn't he just eye candy?

Professional Like Stuff

 

All of these are from my portfolio, done from 2009 to now.  That's all I'm saying.

Doodlerama Part 2

 Bore background practice, How I hope my room will look in Toronto.. one day :)

 Sometimes I'm ashamed of my childhood

 More background practice, for a comic "Zombie&Friends", still in progress

Idea, will try and color

Doodlerama

 I watched Atomic Betty... this occured

 Self doodle 2 in the morning

 Inspired by "BIG IN JAPAN" also trying backgrounds for a change

 ... no words

 5 minute comic of an event that occurred on a very icy day, I love my car, but I swear some days...

Superhero idea.....

Homeless Me

 Homeless me, good possibility I'll be a homeless artist. So here are just some doodles/comics on the matter. Thank god I have the friends that I have, they put up with so much now.

This week was uneventful, so here are doodles

 These are doodles of pretty much me... I kinda want to be a hippie. not for drug use or sex, but to be free from a society where true self is constantly pounced upon and shredded until something it wants appears.

 My friend and I have created fake personas of us as superheroes. The names were her idea, not mine. But they still remain amazing.

 More me... am I giving too much away? Is anyone there listening?

 I doodled some stuff from a fashion magazine, those things are sorta scary when you consider what they think is beautiful and what is really out there in the world and how it does not at all meet their expectations.

 Monsters, animals, etc. are subject I have extremely difficulty with. But I let loose of reality here for just a second to let some creatures out and I set the free on this piece of paper.

 ...No explanation.

 I need bigger dreams... seriously.

This bottom one is pretty much a character I have growing in my stupid brain.Scrapping the glasses idea, not her thing.

An Introduction

Something perhaps a little late, but sadly that is me. Always late. I could as easily be early, but that wouldn't be me so it's impossible.

My name is Tristen. Apparently my dad named me and had no idea why. 

It apparently means tumult which is a violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar in short. Maybe I'm destined to start riots over thong sales.
Well I suppose I would be classified as a geek. I have a love for Marvel and alternative comics, RPG video games, and cartoons varying from My Little Pony to Young Justice. I have no fashion sense, choosing practicality over fashion, comfort over fashion, ..... everything but fashion.
I'd love to make a living from my passion of drawing, or live to support my passion. I also hate science and crawley creatures. 
Gosh what else? I'm impractical, I hide parts of myself that are reserved for some chosen few, and the part you see they don't, and the parts they do you don't. Sometimes there are parts no one see's, parts I prefer to come out in special moments when I know the world forgets me and the parts are no longer in danger of criticism. Parts. I'm a mechanical machine with an all too real heart.
I like the days when I lay in bed all day with no purpose, when my heartbeat is not heard but felt when I stay still in the middle of the night, when I walk this world with an ass kicking soundtrack blasting away in my ears. 
I am least happy alone when my thoughts and self doubt begin to grow louder, when the heat is off and the cold reaches my toes unprotected, and when the coffee is all gone.
I love Canadian artists and comic book makers as they inspire and set the bar. The way they paint and create stories, or retell old ones, so we may see them as clear as they do, or perhaps in a new perspective. It's amazing how this talent was shared with us whether we are worthy or not.
I dream of antique apartments constructively messy, of art classes and animations leaping off the screen, and road trips to places new and old. 
In reality I can easily tell you of my characteristics, my likes and dislikes, my good points and bad points. But never, at least for now, will I be able to tell you me. In all honesty thats up for you to discover, and if you already do know me, then maybe you need to rediscover.