So there's a new Tim Burton movie coming out you may or may not have heard of. Seems he is doing a movie re-imagining of the old Dark Shadows soap opera. This new Dark Shadows stars Johnny Depp, of course.
DeviantArt is honoring this movie with a new contest. I couldn't resist:

Tim Burton himself is picking the winners, so keeping fingers crossed!

And Now For Something Completely Different

Well, okay, not "completely"...it's still art stuff.

I thought I'd share a little project I did for the lovely lady blogger over at Under the Roof of a Great House.
She wanted a portrait for her younger daughter's birthday, so working from a photo she sent me:

It was fun and challenging all at the same time (getting faces to actually look like a "real" somebody is hard!), but she had great input and eventually we got to this:

I hope she likes it, and that she had a really happy birthday!