Volume IV bookplate

I should start a mass of these...accidentally greek inspired! :D

Poison Ivy

Girls Drawing Girls will soon release an awesome book chock full of fabulous flora-related illustrations. I was lucky enough to participate in it and for it I chose to do Poison Ivy. No, not the Batman baddie....the actual plant, you know the one that makes you SO ITCHY.
Here she is!

I'll post up info on how to get your hands on this book later. Enjoy!

Janelle Monae

One of my friends recently got me into Janelle Monae's music. Amazing stuff, she's super talented and my favorite thing of all (this makes my inner feminist absolutely delighted) - she doesn't need to prance around in her underwear to be awesome and sexy.
Thus I drew her in her rockin' 60's tuxedo glory.

I really tried to give the illos more 'tude, but being a person without 'tude myself, it was a tough sell.

Tronification

Now, I'm a fairly nerdy person and so I am VERY MUCH looking forward to Tron Legacy when it comes out in December! In anticipation I downloaded some wall papers and thought I'd do a little illustration to celebrate my love of glowy blacklight gaming movies. Hur hur.

Girls Drawing Girls 2011 Calendar

I recently snagged the opportunity to create a illustration for the Girls Drawin' Girls 2011 calendar. I teamed up with seriously talented artist Kassandra Heller to create an illustration for the month of April.

Here's the initial sketch of our composition.


And here's the final product!


If you want to see (and own!) more awesome GDG artwork, then grab the calendar before its sold out! Quick, like bunnies! You even get free shipping and a free button before the 18th :D

60's Glam and Go Go

I've spent the last week toggling through the Sartorialist's blog and various vintage flickr pages for inspiration. Voilá! Sketches aplenty! However, after a stressful last couple of weeks, all I wanted to do was some mindless copying of reference photos. At least that way you don't have to worry about composition and rendering and stuff. Anyway, I'm not going to post those, BUT they did inspire me to do an Illustrator painting...which unintentionally turned out to be a go-go Mary Poppins. And in fact, I have at least another two 60's style sketches in the works.

Happy 2010!

Happy New Year!
Here are a few paintings I did for christmas. First, a 'history of cameras' set for my friend who is into photography. Acrylic on acrylic board paper (it's actually really nice to paint on!). Probably should've done these in gouache, but seeing as the price of gouache has spun wildly out of control recently, no gouache for me. Stupidly, I took photos of the paintings when they were in frames and had a hard time getting around the reflections...so the colors aren't exact. >.<;

A digital painting for my future aunt and uncle-in-law! This is the church where they got married about 5 years ago.