Tickle, Sickle, Pickle

Paper dolls I made for Lifestyles class with D. Krall. I will be coloring and dressing them throughout the semester.

Tuck Everlasting

Cover idea 1

Cover idea 2

Original cover illustration, uncropped

Some of the illustrations I worked on last semester for  one of my favorite books from childhood. I deleted some previous posts because they were repeats or ones I had to show for finals.

Anyway, a new semester is about to begin, I don’t know what to expect but I’m excited about all my classes.

Goodbye 2009

Here’s to good times

Happy New Year

Moon-related business

Selected pages from a small pop up book-card I made:

fly me to the moon 1

2

BRB

TWO more days of finals before break. I will return soon, I promise!

Concepts I Update

My "Secret Santa" assignment: Create a pop up card

Page 2. These two pop up pages are part of a series I have in mind illustrating the lyrics to "Fly Me to the Moon." I hope to finish the book as a personal project during Winter Break.

This is my first time making a pop up and I didn't expect to like it at all. But now I'm excited about this new way of working and I love that it's a combo of drawing, cut paper, craft and story telling.

scrap paper dummy

the originals

posters, eros, scraps from brainstorm & Halloween

 

Assignment for Design and Web: design a poster for our own gallery show and include a guest speaker. (I chose Edmund Dulac). We could only use one image.

 

 

Alternative color scheme. Although I like the colors here, I submitted the first one because the text there is more legible than this one.

 

 

Eros HW: design a poster advocating one of the causes of Annie Sprinkle, the sex educator/artist and first known prostitute with a PhD.

 

 

 

 

 

Sustainability poster doodles

 

 

My new sketchbook has become where I go to for practice, reflection and class notes. I'm starting to love spiral bound sketchbooks. I feel like I can be informal and free with them whereas perfect bound books are more like art books.

 

Happy Halloween!

EDIT:

My friends and I made our pencil “costumes” the morning of the Halloween party. We’re all busy kids who needed a quick and easy excuse to attend the event (so that we can check out the awesome costumes that other people labored over).

 

I made my pencil sharpener/stuff-holder with Julianna's acrylic and shoe box (thanks girl!)

 

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Concepts I sketch & Business Cards

My home work for Design and Web: design a logo for yourself and apply it to the design of a business card and letterhead.

This week's rotating sketchbook topic is: Wishes

I’ve been working on some longer and more interesting projects, they should be done next week.

Eros

My first assignment for Eros: the pinup. Charcoal, digital.

close up shot: did you notice the woodpeckers? There are other hidden tidbits, but this one is the most crucial to the narrative.

Second project for Eros: a spot illustration for a Savage Love letter of our choice. I chose to illustrate one about a sixty year old virgin. I might redo this when I have time.

I’ve been ask many times why I’m taking Eros. The main reason is that I’ve been on a track to do children’s book illustration, which is very close to my heart, but I also want to expand my horizons and explore different dimensions of what I can do. So far it’s been very satisfying. I’m exploring the contextualized figure more than ever and hopefully this will help me in other areas of illustration.

This week's sketch