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.

falcon animal study

A sketch of a falcon character study possibly for an upcoming children's book. 

animal studies

Some animal study sketches for an upcoming project I may be doing. 

* Happy Holidays *

I apologize ..It's been a while since I posted something... Here is a sketch of a collection of holiday stuff I used to make holiday cards for my family. 

Blue Mountain coffee article

Jamaican blue mountain coffee article

This is from an editorial illustration assignment I had a while back in school. I decided to revisit it again because I really liked my concept of the blue mountains emerging from the coffee cup. 

halloween drinks

Some more fun with halloween theme greeting cards

Stationary Set

 Letters

Fold-over Notecards

Post-it Notes

Envelopes

I'm working in a stationary set with little chattering bluebirds with cherry blossoms. More to come soon.

Halloween Cards

This is a sketch for the back of my halloween promo cards. :)

Hand Drawn Fonts

These two hand drawn font sketches are from an audrey hepburn quote that is one of my favorites.. I like. not only the message about true beauty coming from within, but also the materialistic makeup and glitter galore all around the design I've created.  I will def be hanging this on my wall.. ( maybe in my bathroom?) when I'm finished. They need to be tweaked a bit more first..

Halloween drawings

Sketches for some Halloween promo cards