Category Archives: Cartoons & Comics

Illustration For Kids–Valentine’s Postcard Promo

Over at Illustration For Kids, we put out a super fun and cute promotional postcard with a Valentine’s theme!  Below is the illustration I drew up for my space. I have a lot of variations and different ideas that did before I settled on this one, which I hope to share in other postings. But for now, this was the one I decided to use to represent myself.

So please go to our blog and check out the cool work by the ladies at Illustration For Kids!

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Dance Like a Duck!

I’m a little late on posting some work that was publilshed in January, but here’s a fun piece I did for a spread in the January ’13 issue of High Five magazine. It’s entitled, “Dance Like a Duck!” The cool cover illustration is by the amazing Debbie Palen. Lots of music and dancing is in this issue, for sure! Thank you, Highlights for Children!

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(copyright Highlights for Children)

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 (copyright Highlights for Children)

Works In Progress

A smorgasbord of images I’ve been working on lately…

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So Cold

A slight re-working of an old illustration. I dropped the temperature on the thermometer and added his breath-cloud. Or whatever that’s called.

Don’t go out, little squirrel!

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Chirp! Chirp! A Cartoon Spread–Austrian Body-Painting Festival

Hi everybody! I have a few things that are out in print this month so I wanted to get them up on the blog.

First up is a spread I did for the Jan-Feb ’13 issue of Chirp magazine. This was a lot of fun to assemble and figure out, to have characters applying and wearing body paint. I learned a lot about the art form just doing research. Some samples of the spread are below. Thank you, Owlkids, for the fun project!

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Closer…

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Closer again.

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Happy New Year!

A tad bit late but, hey. : )

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Illustration Friday: “Glow”

My contribution to this week’s Illustration Friday prompt, “Glow”. The coloring is messy and ugly, but the idea was fun to try and pull off quickly.

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Christmas Card #2

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A reworking of an image/card from two years ago. This one is on my December promo postcard. Sure is a lot of fun to change this up from time to time and add new angels and animals, etc. My personal favorites are the dog-angel, cat-angel and mouse-angel!

Merry Christmas!

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This is the final iteration of a piece I did for Illustration Friday a few weeks back, using the word-prompt “tree”. It went from a boy and dog in a tree, kids in a tree, SNOWmen in a tree, and now back to the first idea. And when I thought THAT was done, I added the boxes, bulbs, and ribbons. I think it’s finished. I have not had the urge to fix or change anything. A good sign! And now I’m using it for one of my Christmas cards this year. Merry Christmas!

Warm Up: Fox in Snow

Not feeling all that able to draw today. This is kind of what it looks like outside presently, minus the fox.

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Illustration Friday: “Snow”

A very apt Illustration Friday prompt for this week, as the snow begins to fall. Below if my contribution. Check out the others by clicking on the link above!

Warm-Up: The Deer Can Bake Cookies!

My warm-up drawing for the day turned into a cookbook cover. I consider it a rough, mock-up. I could tweak, change and alter this thing forever, if I let myself.

…And now I think I need my own cookie fix… : )

 

Illustration Friday: “Explore”

An  illustration for Illustration Friday’s word prompt, “Stretch”. These guys are playing some sort snowman’s version of Badminton, me thinks.

Illustration Friday: “Whiskers”

I worked up several different ideas for this Illustration Friday prompt, but finally just decided to do a quick character study-sketch of a cute rat. I like playing with the sloppy digital brushes, too.

 

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