Sketchbook

This weekend I worked on an illustration for the Los Angeles Times. I talked to them on Thursday night, and they wanted to see sketches by the next day and a final on Monday. The article was really great. It was in the food section and it was talking about how these days organic and ethnic foods are more accessible to the public. You can walk into any grocery store and buy things from the organic section. So the sketch they went with was a field with rows of vegetables playing off of the idea of grocery isles, with people shopping between them with shopping carts. The design editor was incredibly nice and I really enjoyed working on this project!

This is for the "Waking the Giants" Ringling 100 project. It's going to be really interesting to see how it turns out. I haven't done any swirls in an illustration since thesis...so I thought I'd reminisce with this one.

Sketching

I'm still here!

Hello! It's been ages since I've posted. I've been working on a couple books, so that's been fun. Also recently I found out that I got an illustration into the 2009 Society of Illustrators student exhibition. I didn't think that could happen since I already graduated. More shocking then that is I received the Albert Dorne Scholarship. Even better is that my buddies Gail, Tina, and Sarah are in the show too! I was so excited when I found out that I burnt all my giraffe and airplane cookies. It's such a great opportunity and honor, congratulations to everyone else that got in!!

Small Project for a group teaching dance lessons and spanish tutoring. I had lots of fun with this one!

The Snowman's Ball.

Gail and I are still doing christmas themes, this week we're doing snowmen and reindeer. Next week we'll play up the Santa's! Working part time and with other things going on, I've become a bit distracted. I've still kept up with mailers and portfolio work...but I haven't done enough for myself. I don't know...maybe everyone gets derailed briefly after college? Any thoughts?

Woah. What? I updated? Yay! Gail and I are getting into holiday themes, and we started with elves. I've been so busy painting envelopes and send outs, I haven't done anything lately that was just for fun. I love christmas illustrations!