Dress up

Halloween is my favorite time of year. I love dressing up and more importantly, seeing everyone else's costumes.

My design team dressed up as the Rockford Peaches baseball team from the movie "A League of Their Own." This was one of my favorite movies growing up so it was a lot of fun to dress up as the team.

Here's documentation of the day's events on my company's blog!

Finished!

For the past 2 weeks or so I've been involved in a sort of secret "test-it-out" project with a few other illustrators and Robert Zimmerman, the guy who created Drawger.com and Illoz.com. He put together a site for students and recent grads (that's me) called Ohger and it finally launched to the public this weekend! You can see my portion of the site here:
http:/ohger.com/mariafilar

Basically, it's a student/grad version of Drawger and it's going to be used for art directors to take a look at what the newer up and coming illustrators fresh out of school are up to, and hopefully some jobs will come out of this whole thing. I'm really excited and honored to be chosen as a founding member!


Also, I finished my skate deck for the good wood show in Philly next weekend. I'm crossing my fingers that I don't get sick before then- I've had the sniffles the past few days. I'm drinking lots of tea in the meantime.

The deck:

Mail Goodies

Besides the expected netflix movie (I'm hooked!) once or twice a week, it's not very often I receive things in the mail.

Yesterday I walked up to my mailbox and found not only my latest movie (Hocus Pocus, if you were wondering!) but a halloween card and a package!! Jillian sent the book and it's perfect! Just the sort of thing I would love to have in my growing book collection. There are hundreds of photos in this book dating back to the 1800's, including shots of all the famous gangsters and criminals- Capone and Dillinger to name a few.

The card is from Caitlin, the illustration is just my style, and no, it is not too early to be getting halloween cards!! At the end of the week when it's finally time to turn over my skate deck to the gallery, I can start working on Halloween cards to send.

This month I plan on watching nothing but all the Halloween movies I remember growing up. Tonight is Hocus Pocus and next on the list is The Addams Family. I am having trouble putting together a longer list, but I know there are tons more. Please leave suggestions!