Step TWO

Alright, the next thing I decided to work on is finishing the piece I'm calling "The Big Catch". So I pretty much just finished the outlines. I'm going to change the colors of the outline and then finish the color in Photoshop. What do you think?

I finally have some down time!

I got laid off from my soul-sucking administrative job at the end of February, and after a couple of weeks of shame-eating myself into a stupor, I decided to look on the bright side and remember that this is what I've been waiting for. Unemployment isn't great, but it does allow me to continue to live while I have all this free time to work on my portfolio. Here are some things I've been working on the last week or two. All of these will soon be either colored or inked. I can't wait to post these when they're finished, they will look much better. SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! (just kidding, I'm gonna make an attempt to update much more often).


This is for my friend's daughter's first birthday party invitation. I think it turned out pretty well. As a note, the baby is going to be holding a balloon, but I haven't put it in yet.


This one is going to make a lot more sense when it's finished. The background is going to be very dark, and the monster is going to barely be visible except his yellow eyes and teeth. I'll put it up when i'm done!


Stir fry is murder.


This is one of my favorites. I can't wait to watercolor this.

This is one in a series of drawings I've been doing of this kid

Here's another one


And another one.

Another one of my bears gracefully dancing about

For my children's book portfolio

For my children's book portfolio

my shirt design

this is going to be on a shirt pretty soon i think. picture everything that's black as being white (the ink) and picture everything that's white being the color of the shirt (probably navy or a dark color). would anyone want to buy one?

Boy it's been awhile.

Here are just a couple of inked things i did. The first was for my mom, whose law office full of ladies had an open house for the rest of the building to show everyone their newly refinished space, so i did an invitation featuring that character. The second I did for my business card. They turned out alright, but I think I'm going to make another design and print more. Oh, by the way, the elbow on the crocodile is supposed to be the more round one, I edited it out in photoshop for the business cards, but I just remembered it's still on the scan I'm putting up.

Pencil

I don't know where this will end up but I like it so far. That's my cat Clyde with the samurai helmet and katana. It's for Jennie, but as far as the background and how I'm going to color it is yet to be determined.

Add a little milk and bring it to a boil

Alright, so here are just some things I've been doing the last few days. Most of it is the project I was working on for my mom's birthday present, which is the watercolor of the kid and his pet dragon. Don't worry, I'll get a better quality scan soon, I took these with a camera and the lighting I had on it was too bright and kind of dulled the color, but you can definitely get the idea.

Luck is not on my side

I had some things to put up this week, but almost all my means of putting those things up are non-existent. Jennie doesn't have her camera stuff, Joe and Frances' computer is on the fritz (that's the computer my scanner is hooked up to), and I REALLY don't want to go to kinko's. But...it's looking like I might have to anyway, because I need to use a copier to enlarge a bunch of stuff, too. See you soon, I promise!