Just finishing up a water color of some delicious desert.

I finished my elephant! This is an illustration for "The Elephant Ryhme" a traditional nursery ryhme. I still need to flatten the paper a little more so i can get a better scan. I'll be added the finished piece with type to my website, which should also be published some time next week. I have finally finished it. Just have to work on  forwarding  my domain. I also finished the piece that I previously posted of the bear in the park. The final for that will also be out when my web page is published. 

An in progress of the final for "The Elephant Rhyme".

It's almost finished. 

Final sketch for promo card

I little sketch of a bear in the park enjoying a delicious ice coffee treat on a hot summer day. I think I am going to play with this more and use as a promo card. 

The Lion and the Unicorn

I've been drawing a lot more lately. doing more concept sketching trying to improve on my drawing skills, and as you know I have been working a lot on my children's portfolio. As I keep working the more I realize how much I love illustrating animals. Here's another nursery rhyme I'll be illustrating called the lion and the unicorn. This is one of my first concept sketches so its definitely not going to be my final. I want to play with exaggeration in the characters, trying to make it look really magical. so maybe ill just zoom in on the faces of each animal or play with dimensions. Because now i feel it looks really boring. 

The Tortoise and the Hare character concepts

One of my favorite stories growing up was the tortoise and the hare. So since I've been working on my children's portfolio I've decided to illustrate a cover and maybe the whole story if I can find the time. Here's just some face expression sketches of the tortoise and the hare. More to come soon. 

The Elephant Rhyme

A sketch for a nursery rhyme called The Elephant rhyme. 

Heres a quick color study of just the elephants face. i really like how it looks so far. but Im going to experiment a little more.