Just Try It

When I was sketching, I was thinking this is a fed-up nerd boy with his 2 monstrous body guards. But now I see it could also be interpreted as the toughest gang at school and this kid is the leader of the pack. Kinda funny to think that a sock and flip-flop wearing scrawny nerd is the bully. But it works either way, I guess.

This piece was fun to do. Not only designing the characters, (I love drawing monster thugs, apparently) but using the liquify tool in Photoshop. I'd never used it before and it sure is handy. It really helped when making the reflection in the floor.

Woah, I finished one

For the last month I've been spending a lot of my 'free' time working on some new pieces for my portfolio... a portfolio I'm hoping to showcase at the SCBWI LA conference :) I thought you might like a little sneak peek at one of them, so here it is! I like to call this one 'Groovy Grandma' because it reminds me of my Great Grandma Howels who taught me to play the piano, ride a bike and play shuffleboard. Some of my fondest memories are the times I spent with her. Ha, we used to watch Lassie and eat bon bons. Man, I miss her. She was one hip lady.

SFG: Ad boy

Here's a little ad/illo I did tonight based on the theme "Vintage Advertising Characters" over at Sugar Frosted Goodness. This was a lot of fun and I can't wait to play ultimate frisbee tomorrow!! Hooray for flying discs!

Nice

Here's a little illo I did for the theme over at Sugar Frosted Goodness. I've decided that while I love illustrator, I need to pump up my digital painting skills. I started out this one but outlining the strokes in illustrator and importing them into Photoshop. Then I used custom brushes and some textures to mimic my traditional watercolor technique. I think the experiment went pretty good ... I certainly learned a lot. I'm going to keep experimenting with digital painting and hopefully find a looser and quicker style. But for now, I'm just excited to have something other than work or flash class stuff to post, haha.