New Blog

All my new drawings can now be found on my new Designsprite blog. All of these Illustration Friday drawings are there under "creative journal" or click on the category "illustration friday" in the side nav bar. Thanks!

Star Gazing - Illustration Friday

Camping + lake + stars = aaaaaaaaah! Watercolor, pen and colored pencil.

Caged - Sketch

This is a preliminary sketch for this week's Illustration Friday topic "caged." I have a painting based on this sketch roughed out, I'll post when it's done!

Undone

Not all the way undone yet, but well on it's way!

Hatch

I haven't played around with this style for awhile (since IF topic "Leap"), but I just love the look of the photograph/illustration combo so I wanted to give it another go. I'm much happier with this result. This style is inspired in part by grafitti like this:



and mind blowingly cool (and infinitely more graceful) illustrations like this, by illustrator Noumeda Carbone:

Crunchy

When I saw this week's topic, I knew I had to do a self-portrait. I'm a tofu-lovin', Co-op shoppin', tree huggin', Birkenstock wearin', granola eatin' CRUNCHY girl. Did a quick ball point pen sketch on my bus ride into work today, scanned and roughly colored in Photoshop.

Pattern