Threadless

So I entered another Threadless t-shirt contest! I hope you'll all go out and vote for me (and hopefully give me a 5)!

The theme is "Girly" and I just don't think there's a contest more suited for me (at least not yet)!

Disney love

I have had a creative burst recently due to some Disney inspiration! I love drawing me some Disney princesses!

An Anna to match my Elsa.

And Rapunzel! Because I don't think I ever drew anything more than a doodle of her which is weird because I feel like I had loads of Rapunzel doodles around the time Tangled came out.

Babies

I thought I'd make a quick post for a card I recently made. My cousin had a baby this month so I thought I'd make a card just for them!

I'm alive!

Wow it's been months since my last update!! Although you haven't been missing much!

I've posted a few things on Tumblr since my last post but not a lot. My day job has been keeping me quite busy! I am working on a super cute new logo design right now for someone though that I hope works out. Either way I can't wait to share it!

My latest creation though is for my annual Christmas card! I'm very active with Postcrossing and made some cards last year to send out. I had a lot of fun doing it so I decided to make it an annual tradition! I also gave them out to my family who of course loved it. So here it is! If you like it so much that you want to send some out yourself — you can! I've posted it over at Zazzle. You can also buy last year's too if you're interested.

And in the spirit of Christmas and gift giving I thought I'd gush about one of my favorite gifts I've received and that is an adopted manatee, Lenny! Manatees are my favorite animal and I'm very passionate about them. Over at Save the Manatee Club you too can adopt a manatee for yourself or as a gift. I realize not everyone loves manatees as much as I do (although they should!) so maybe you could adopt your friend or relative their favorite animal. I just want to help spread the word (and the joy of manatees)!

Now the rest of this post is basically just an art dump with a few things from the past few months.

This was for a Lion King t-shirt challenge over at Threadless about a month ago. The winners still haven't been announced so keep wishing me luck!

This was for a Game of Thrones poster contest I didn't win. That's OK though, I'm still happy with how it came out.

This was something someone commissioned after seeing my Sailor Neptune post awhile back.

My friend's fantasy football avatar.

And some Adventure Time because nothing is better for doodling that that!

River

This past weekend I attended a baby shower for two friends of mine. They're having a girl and plan on naming her River. For a wedding gift I painted them a picture and I also took some engagement and wedding photos for them. So of course I wanted to do something for their baby shower too! But I couldn't figure anything out. So I just accepted I wouldn't make anything.

Now I've been on a major Doctor Who kick here recently (thanks to these two friends actually) and it's practically all I've had on the brain. So at the last minute my brain was like...wait...baby shower, Doctor Who fans, baby River....RIVER SONG.

So I got a onesie and painted this on to it! If I had had more time I would have liked to send it off to have it printed somewhere but oh well. Next time! This was my first time using fabric medium and paint so hopefully it holds up. It sure feels better than just straight up acrylic.

Weird Animal Wednesday

My friend is a teacher at a daycare and something she decided to incorporate into her class is "Weird Animal Wednesday". She comes up with animals and facts and has me do some little fact sheets for her. I've been enjoying it and it gets me some practice drawing animals. I don't hate drawing animals but I don't really love it either. I'm just kind of indifferent to it.

So here are some weird animals for your Wednesday!

Ilayda

I've been working on some character designs lately. Yesterday it was all about facial expressions. Here's some for someone I'm calling Ilayda.

I'm done!

I'm FINALLY done with school, FOREVER (I hope)! I now have a real website up and running. It's mostly just my design work but I intend to add a seperate illustration tab in the near future. But for now I finally have some free time again and can do some fun stuff on here.

Here's a little something I had to do for class. It's the animation that goes with my Nancy Drew illustrations. It was a group project and no one in my group was especially capable with video editing so we made the best of it. It's not too bad considering!

Projects, projects, projects!

Here's a poster from a larger campaign I did for a Save Texas Schools assignment. I was focusing on oversized classrooms effecting education.

Here's some character designs from a project that didn't end up working out. I was going for a Kate Beaton inspired look here.

Now my latest project is for soap packaging. I'm super excited about it so far. Can't wait to see the end result but here's what I have so far. This is the Mistress of Citrus. I started out with the first one but wasn't especially happy with it. Then I was introduced to Kevin Dart's art and felt inspired to do the second one. Which I love! I feel like you'll be seeing more illustrations in this style soon.

Little Red Riding Hood

This is my latest project. I'm designing a children's storybook app for the iPad. These may not be the final versions but it's where I'm at now. So far it's been one of my favorite projects I've done!