Meet my little friend

I shall call him Mr. Monkey. Or you could call him monkey. I’m confident he would answer to that too. 🐒

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.

Go, Go Banananas!

It's Friday, you know what that means... Go Bananas!
Today's warmup sketch is a play off yesterday's Monkey sketch.

Boom! and Sketch dump

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

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. 

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.

Everything has Beauty; Fortune Cookie Lettering

Here's another installment of the fortune cookie lettering project.

Yet another peek into my sketchbook.

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.

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.

You can see more of my work here. 

Sketch dump Wednesday

Some quick sketches to share on this lovely Wednesday morning.

Let's Read!

The benefits of reading are innumerable.  It improves cognitive function, is a source of knowledge, increases empathy, not to mention it can be quite entertaining. My love of reading, and thoughts on the benefits of reading are what led to the warmup sketch below.  As they say, reading is fun.... damental. :)

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?

Hippity hop!

Here's a quick Easter Bunny sketch in celebration of Easter weekend. Hoppy Easter everyone!

Her Birthday was last weekend so it's safe to post this now. Here's a tiny piece of a Beauty and the Beast name plate I made for my equally beautiful niece.

Birthdays, happy days

I had birthdays on the brain so here's a birthday sketch from this mornings warm up session.
Now blow out the candle already!

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. :)