What's on my desk?

Still pluggin' away at some current projects. Here's a peek at a handful of character sketches :)


This guy is a "special" pup.. he'll be fun to pose and get his quirky personality in an illustration.

He's a party pooper...

These two were fun to figure out!  They're "an old Jewish couple" according to the character descriptions haha!
The ram is hard of hearing so we incorporated a hearing device into this horn.

 Little more exaggerated in this one...

Last, this guy was a little more difficult. He's described as being a New Yorker, hopefully I achieved some sort of that attitude. 

so ya!  I sent these over to be reviewed, which means you might see some more with changes later.


I'm planning and getting supplies together for a couple new projects and doing sketches for another canvas painting to go with the piggies! Stay tuned for lots more soon!


Have a great week guys!

Angel Squadron and more little donkeys

Well helllloooooo blog! fancy meeting you here!

To make up for not posting and miserably failing my resolution for posting once a week, here are some recent goodies I'm working on.  For those of you who don't know or havent read my other posts, I'm working on a set of characters for a friends original children's musical.  A few changes have been made on the title character, so here he is all fleshed out:

 

Dingo

he's so sweet, It's gonna be a lot of fun to do a final illustration with him.

Next up, we have a set of the Angel characters.  These guys aren't your run of the mill angels with big white wings.  Their dialogue is written like a flight crew of military pilots, so awesome and they wear bomber jackets with wings on the back! I'm having so much fun creating the looks of these guys :)

Star Leader (L) & Rookie (R)

Angel crew members

I'm realizing more and more as I'm developing their character looks that a lot of what I'm bringing to the table has been in direct relation to experience working with my mom.  My mom (and dad actually) has been directing kids musicals pretty much all of my life. When I was little, I had parts in it and now that I'm too old (bummer) I'm right at her side doing what she's taught me.  It's just sorta ingrained on how these productions work and a lot of costuming experience and ideas are flowing into the look of the characters. It's pretty cool!

This is the first section of the cast and there are a lot more to get done! These are looking pretty great to start off with so I'm pretty excited to get the whole thing finished.


Stay tuned for some more stuff, I'm going to really be challenging myself this next month in regards to adding content on this blog.  It's a source of advertisement in a way and I know the more I put into it the better it will reflect what I can do.


Do something creative today!!

Little Donkeys

So this week has been kinda crappy for me.

On Saturday after a wonderful lunch and afternoon with my cousins, I started to feel a lot of pressure in my head and sinuses. Apparently I got a bad sinus infection that then traveled to my ears. I don't know how many of you have had ear infections recently, but it's literally like torture! I can't hear anything out of my left ear but muffled sounds and once the antibiotics kicked in (on tuesday, because of course I got it over the weekend) it's like a clicking, popping, gurgling symphony happening in there. Oh, it also feels like someone is pouring water down my ear canal every second of every day.  I think I might be going insane.  I'm praying this things clears up quick because it is the most uncomfortable ailment I've had in a long time.

Needless to say, I haven't been as productive as I wanted to because it's extremely difficult to sketch while laying flat on the bed. hahaha I think all my drawings would come out leaning like the Tower of Pisa.

However, I did manage to get some gestures and studies of donkeys so that I could put together a character for one of my projects.  Here is one page I fleshed out and cleaned up a bit.

New projects!

Not much to show in this blog update but some new projects to share about that came up this week.

First off, I'm helping a friend out with some character sketches for a Children's Musical he's written. It's a Christmas story about a special little donkey. :) There are quite a few characters within it so I'll get to draw a lot of barnyard animals, Whoohoo! It'll help with promotion for the musical and he might try to self publish a book later on. Can I just say, baby donkeys might just be the cutest thing you've ever seen... ok hold on I have to show you...

Oh my heart strings!! you just want to squeeze him :)

Alright, I've recovered. The 2nd project(s) I've taken on are gifts to my cousins for their new babies/nurseries. Crazily, three of them are having kids this year within like a 6 month period, I'm way behind! haha! My first cousin, Jessica, has a whole farm theme going on in her kiddy's room, so ... you guessed it! More barnyard animals! This ones a little different tho because I can make it a full illustration of barn shenanigans. They're going to turn out really cute.
My 2nd cousin, Michaela, has been working with a color scheme for the baby's room and I think she might go more "zoo-ish" which will be pretty fun too. We're still working out the details.
And last but not least, Sarah, is expecting in June sometime and she doesn't know about the offer yet ;) Hopefully, she won't read this till after saturday when I tell her. haha  We'll see what she decides.


That's it for now. I want to start on a million other things but it all takes time and these projects get first dibs. I can't wait to share them all with you :)

Do Something Creative Today!