Rainforest Layers

Photoshop.

This one was sort of a doozy. It's 6 inches wide by 5 feet tall. Everything was hand-drawn in Photoshop with a tablet, though I may have borrowed the beetles from *cough* a previous piece. I broke it into panels to upload so I could show some more details.

There may be some pretty blatant ecological discrepancies, but I won't say anything if you don't.

Crumpled Statue

Ink, scanned textures, photoshop.

I am in no way actually affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The first assignment for class was to create a poster for a currently running production put on by the RSC.

I was somewhat disappointed that I couldn't fit a bear in anywhere.

Garden Sunset

Polychromos colored pencils.

Playing with my new pencils and ignoring perspective.

Festive Insect Activity

photoshop, illustrator.

This is/was my entry to the 2011 ACL Design Competition held by the Austin Parks Foundation. For those of you not familiar with the Austin City Limits Music Festival, it's a music festival that happens here in Austin at Zilker Park. Tons of people show up every year, and it's sort of a thing.

Thought I'd try to show the native park inhabitants enjoying the music.

Midsommar Sun

Photoshop.

The Solstice Girls get their tan on.

(Don't worry, Mom. They're wearing high SPF, broad spectrum sunscreen, reapplied liberally every hour.)

Butterflies Flutter By

Graphite.

Crazy butterfly lady. She cray-cray.

(My final project for Basic Illustration.)

Twitchy Eyes

Watercolor, Colored Pencil on Arches, Cold Pressed.

Another project for class. A series of reptiles.

Original reference pictures by Igor Siwanowicz. View his work at DeviantART or Photo.net.

You Feeling Lucky?

Prismacolor Colored Pencils.

Did this for class. Hadn't intended to post it here, but having done no other finished work outside of class and feeling worse by the day about not posting anything for March, I finally gave into my blog guilt.

The project was to create an alternate poster for the Coen Brothers' movie, No Country for Old Men. It seemed appropriate to have the antagonist looming over the horizon looking dark and creepy with the Texas Rangers in the foreground looking on hopelessly over the barren west Texas landscape. Then tried to give it that sort of sepia-toned western-y feel.

Blueberries

Acrylic wash, 03 technical pen.

Perfectly composed falling blueberries. A project for class. Multiple layers of acrylic wash + seemingly millions of stipple dots = many, many hours of my life that I will never get back. Blurry at the top because I am too lazy to make a decent scan right now.

Celebratory Dancing

Colerase.

Cleaned-up sketches of the dancing cats on my sister's birthday card this year.

Evergreen

Photoshop.

Wishing you merry sentiments and a fresh pine scent this winter season. <3

Her name is Rio and...

Col-erase, watercolor.

One last breath of summer.

Danger

Relief-printed collagraph.

This is old, but I haven't hardly shown it to anyone, so I feel this is okay.

The crow is cut out of thick watercolor paper and the rest is found fabric with a few small flowers cut from a vinyl placemat. Based loosely on the idea that crows will sometimes eat smaller birds/nestlings.

Fillet Relay

Soft pastel, charcoal, chalk pencil, colored pencil, graphite.

My reintroduction to soft pastels did not go as smoothly as hoped.

Oxford Comma?

Pencil.

Believe it or not, this is the only thing I drew this month that I liked.

By the Bay

watercolor & colerase.

The rest of this piece didn't quite work out, but this bit of it doesn't look too bad.

Just This

Colerase.

You know, just dodging the bullet for June.

Arboreality

Pencil.

Trees are neat.

Ahead of the Pack

Pencil.

Thought I'd do an Illustration Friday this week. This week's topic was "Ahead." I'm running a bit late for the deadline, so it's a bit rough. Eek.

Mummified

Watercolor, colored pencil.

Finally finished this one. Experimenting. Done on 17x14in Bristol. Definitely should have used different paper. Got sloppier as I progressed. Don't usually work this big. It's a lot of space to cover. Excuses, excuses.

Hope you like purple.

Potential Alternate Title: "You Been Mumm'd"