Lil' Piglet

I want to start working on an alternate portfolio more geared towards the field I am currently working in. I love cute children's characters and animals and there are tons of ways to illustrate this in the surface pattern and paper craft industry. I also can't help but be inspired by all the animals my best friend Jillian Evelyn is always coming up with.

If pigs could fly they would be really cute like this guy.

GAGA

Hallway Show submission week 2. Lady Gaga- I really only know who she is by name. I've never heard her music or anything else- I guess living without cable TV and a strong internet connection has really cut me off from the world. I feel so behind on what's going on. Although I've never really followed pop culture too closely anyway...
Anyway. Here's Lady Gaga. I drew this in my sketchbook and colored it in photoshop. I am trying to make more images that aren't drawn separately and then pieced together later, like I usually do. I have to start working on figuring out my image and composition right off the bat instead of drawing each element and moving things around over and over. Although that isn't really too much of a bad thing, it's just my process.
Still. Something to work on as a challenge for myself.

Pugs in Space

My best friend Jillian requested that we make each other artwork for each of our respective work spaces. Specifically she asked me to make some pugs in space. So, here are some pugs floating in space. I think they really like it out there.

Sketch

I rarely have time to use my sketchbook nowadays ( I know, that's really no excuse). But here's a tiny doodle I did yesterday.

This weekend I hope to finally use my $50 gift card to Dick Blick that I received with the return of my artwork from the Society of Illustrators. Thanks, Society! It's time for a new sketchbook and some brush pens.

Danny Baby.

Last year my friends and I started this weekly show called "the Hallway Show". Each week someone would pick a pop culture icon and everyone would submit their interpretation of the figure. We didn't have actual gallery space to hang these shows, so we started taping them to the wall outside one of the classrooms. It started to catch on big time and by the end of the year we had enough images to compile a whole book about it. My friends Nikki Desautelle and Matt DeBeul put together a book on Lulu that you can purchase here.

Well, lo and behold, Chelsea Kirchoff decided it was about time to start an internet version of this collective effort, since we are all now graduated and can't go back to old times.

It's the Hallway Show, and it's great. So, for good time's sake,

1. Make a Danny

2. Tape it up.

Now, if only we could all find a way to virtually meet at Circa Saloon or Cass Cafe...

Ninja Power

Halloween was great. Danny and I were ninjas. And with none of that store bought stuff. We made our costumes from scratch. Like true ninjas. We are resourceful and wise. Also making an appearance is Billy Mays, Dorothy, Mr. Ray, a zombie and a scarecrow.