Boom! and Sketch dump

A little fun vector piece and some sketches from my sketchbook.

Moms in Space 2: I want my Mommy

Can remember this sketch?

Well this mom is now space ready. Say hello to the latest addition to my portfolio.

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Green Fairy

Here's a green fairy to add to my vector portfolio. Cute is she not?
You can view more of my vector art here.

This Little Piggy

A little bit of character work to get the morning started right. 

New Art! Mom and Kid

Want to share a new piece from my portfolio. You can definitely feel the love between this mother and her child.

And the sketch.

Fortune Cookies Part 2

Decided to "vectorize" another of the fortune cookie lettering from yesterday and am really happy to share it with you. I kind of want to put this on a mug or something. Too inspirational poster? not in Unicorn colors it's not!

Fortune Cookie Lettering

In my down time, I started hand lettering fortune cookie fortunes and here is progress I've made so far. Below are inkings and a vectorized hand lettering of a few of the fortunes.

I have well over 50 fortunes since I started collecting the fortunes that tickled my fancy. If you like these you might see more... Is this something worth pursuing? You tell me.

New Art

Here's a piece you haven't seen before. 

Hamsters at Work- Color Roughs Again

Sharing more of my process with the Hamster at Work Illustration. As you see the color rough process is complete.

I'm still tweaking the colors, I'm not crazy about the color of the denim against the blue tube, but a red or yellow, a color that would contrast nicely with the blue, fights too much with the denim to capture the attention of the eye. I'm thinking a I'll darken the denim and move the color of the tube to a greenish blue or maybe a more true blue. I'll play with it and see what looks best, what doesn't fight with the hamsters for focus.

Best Mom Ever

It's Mother's Day, and not to brag, but I happen to have the Best. Mom. EVER. I even have a card to prove it. SEE. Seriously she's the best mom ever. I made her this.

Hamsters at work- Color Roughs

Let's go on illustration journey. I thought I would take you along on the process I use when creating an illustration. Remember those hamsters from yesterday? They've made it to the color rough phase. This phase gives me the opportunity to play with the color and adjust before I get down to the detail work part of the project.

I've decided I would share the way I like to build my photoshop layers to make editing the colors simple. Each hamster is his own group with a fill and line art. I then grouped all the hamsters together so I can move them if needed as a group and turn off their visibility as a group to work on the background. This also keeps my layers organized when I have a document with many many layers. Navigating layers is a challenge when you don't name the layers and you have to figure out which later that weird smudge is on.

New Art, and Hard working Hamsters.

Have a new sketch and some art to share on this Thursday morning. First some hamsters who are taking a well deserved lunch break.

The art, a new addition to my portfolio, is a fire station with some special visitors.

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New Art Tuesday, Family Yard Work Time!

Work is more fun when it's done as a group. Fun family illustration below. More of my work available here.

Sketch dump, Monday edition.

Happy Monday morning everyone. Here are some warm up sketches I'm sharing to start the week.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Everyone loves cookies, well most people do. What's even better is when a family makes those cookies together. Check out this new addition to my portfolio, an illustration of a family baking together.  You can view more of my work here.

As a bonus I've included a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. The recipe calls for shortening, please note you should use a trans-fat free shortening.

Slothday

My little Friday sloth sketch really wanted to come out and play. Here's he is in his full colored awesomeness.  More of my work can be seen here on my portfolio.

April Showers

It's been very rainy lately so I decided to share this fairy shower illustration. You can check out more of my portfolio here.

Mermaids have some tails

I'm sure they have tales too. Here's a quick little doodle from this morning's warmup session.  I'm on a little mermaid kick.

Moms in Space!

I was dared to draw a "Moms in Space" concept, so here you go. I was really digging the idea of a space stroller too so of course my space mom had to be pushing one.  It's a fun concept I think will eventually end up in my portfolio.

kids sketches

A few quick sketches of cute kids for this morning's warmup. Thought I would share. :)