New Art: Hamsters Done!

Last we saw my little hardworking hamster were in color limbo. After some tweaking the colors came together and I'm very happy to share the final piece with all the shading and detail work in place. These guys are too cute for their own good. As always you can see my entire portfolio at www.angiejones.com.

Just Dance!

Starting my Monday off right with a dance party sketch. Who doesn't like to move to some good music?

This Little Piggy

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

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.

We Are Polar Bears

Here's a cute sketch I wanted to share from this morning's warmup session. They are cute polar bears, are they not?

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.

Cute Jungle Animals

Here are some cute jungle animals I just added to my portfolio

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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. :)

Swimming with the fishes

Just added this cute mermaid to my vector portfolio. She brought her little fishy friend.

You can view more of my vector art here.

New Art Tuesday, Yetis have Moms too.

Yes, Yetis have Moms, and they want their little Yetis to have a good lunch too.

More portfolio work can be found here.

TGIF? The 13th.

Happy Friday the 13th. For this morning's warmup, here's a Friday the 13th/Peanuts mashup.
I imagine the G in TGIF stands for "Good Grief" in this case.

Dino-Roar!

Roar for Dinosaurs this New Art Tuesday.

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Fugu fun

A little fugu sketch to share today. 

Dancing Dragon Warmup

Dragons dance? Guess so, here's a sketch.

Fairy Warmup Sketch

A little fairy warmup sketch.

New Art Tuesday is no monkey business!

No monkey business this New Art Tuesday.  So here is a cute little monkey I thought that you would like.

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Season's Greetings!

Christmas is near so it seemed proper to make this weeks "New Art Friday" holiday themed. Happy Holidays everyone!

You can see the rest of my vector art portfolio here: http://www.angiejones.com/portfolio-2.html

Winter Solstice, Winter Snowman.

A quick snowman warmup sketch for this winter solstice. Owl can come too.

Bonus seasonal lettering sketch just for fun.