Christmas Portraits

Here are two of the portraits I painted this Christmas.

Save The Date Post Card

Borders for Chapters

Here is the sketch I did as I was thinking about the book cover design for the Alice in Wonderland Series.

Alice in Chair

Pretty Face 2

Pretty Face 1

Alice with Bow & Alice with Gloves

Mad Hatter & March Hare

The Mayor's Alliance Shirt

Cheshire Cat & Dodo Bird

These were created quickly on newsprint with sharpie and gouache.

Process

This is an unfinished piece that shows the first few layers in my process towards a completed painting.

Unfinished Face

Queen in Yellow Dress

Alice

This is the first study I completed for the Character Alice. She started out a little darker than she ended up.

Alice with Flamingo

WIN Shirt

Needs some eye lashes...

Queen of Hearts Color Study

Early Character Development for Alice

Early WIN Shirt Design

Alice (Middle Stage)

Here you can see the middle stage of one of my paintings. It is starting to come together. In the studies that I do before I start final illustrations for a book I usually play with layering a lot.

Queen of Hearts Sketch

Here you can see the technique I use when I'm developing a character and sketching out the layout for a painting.

Playing with Texture and Layering

Playing with Eyes—Color and Expression

The eyes are the window to the soul! I've got to get them just right. I'm playing with the color and technique that I will use throughout the book to keep them consistent.

Alice Character Development

Tiger Painting I Have YET TO FINISH...

Beauty School

Let's French

When You're Around

SOCIAL PACT'S LAUNCH!

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Fishy Kiss

Humane Society of NY

Take Me Home Tonight 2

This is a more illustrative version of the Humane Society shirt

Dream Date

Headstone Design

Big Ol' Eyes

In this process shot you can see the thick sharpie outline.

Preliminary Drawings for Humane Society Shirt

Humane Society Sketches

Humane Society Sketches

Elle

I worked at Elle for the day on Friday. I comped up some spreads and did the layout for this advertorial that they are going to present to Burt's Bees to promote a new line of products for sensitive skin. I liked the illustrator they used; Yoco. I want to do some more rough fashion-y illustrations to put in my portfolio. That would be awesome to get a job doing illustrations for a Magazine like Elle. The scripty type I used I have never used before. I found it when I was perusing what they had in their font manager; Aphrodite. I love it when scripty type faces have a bunch of really good glyphs. That's why my favorite is probably Semilla, but I wish it came in different weights.