#101 Children's Book Class

Developing characters, drawing out adorable scenes, reaching to a child's imagination... the perfect class for me! I've had a lot of fun with it and can't wait for what's to come.

Character design

Heheheheh

Some artists I kept in mind of this project...
My discovery of the great Carter Goodrich (shown below) was a huge influence on what I wanted to mold my work to look like.

Gary Kelley has been an inspiration of mine for a while now.

The influence may not be obvious at first, but it was more about injecting shapes and character to every element in the piece, although it does not have shading or hue, I hope that comes through!


I went to the library and researched a number of children's books, trying to nail a style and theme that kids would like.

#94 More of the beach

Drawing people that move... getting easier and easier to do! I'm really enjoying this creeping on people thing :D

#93 Draws

Welcome back y'all!  I know it's been a while.  THIS is my sketchbook tumblr page, where I actually tend to update it every day. Although I'm still more of a blogger gal, you'll see most everything shown on this site and more. Just a heads up for those of you tired of my scattered updates ;)

New massacre in Syria reported, 100 dead

There were unconfirmed reports of a massacre in Syria June 6. The reports said dozens of civilians in a village near Hama were slain by pro-government militias Wednesday afternoon.

Well that's kind of depressing...let's lighten it up!

facial expressions

I've found that I did not bring a pencil on this vacation... ah no harm done. I can't get enough of pens!

 birds.

This is Mittens.

Some more gestural kind of stuff

This is Marley.

Trying out some  watercolors.  Really cheap ones, but still nice color studies.

Just to let you know, I'm currently working on a follow up piece to Christian Bale/American Psycho.

It's another "narrative portrait" done in a similar style.  I am super psyched about this process.   Currently, this project is on hold because of some vacation time... but should get rolling again once I get back home.  Same for my Mondokio internship.

I don't know how to give you a hint as to who I'm doing without completely giving it away... so I'll just leave this here...