At the Atlanta Market this past January, more of my Watercolor Animal collection was launched — pillows! Thank you, Creative Co-op!
I received a couple samples, and they look great. Excellent quality pillow, too. Yep, stoked again.
I really enjoyed creating this piece for last week's Illustration Friday's challenge, and I was stoked that I was able to submit again this week. This week's theme: "Tropical."
I haven't worked with birds lately (possibly my favorite subject ever), so I decided to focus on tropical birds. I looked through various images, and considered a flamingo collage, but then I found a beautiful shot of a toucan. Below is my collage inspired by that photo...
Yesterday, I remembered to create an illustration for Illustration Friday's weekly challenge. The word was "Heart." Here are a couple collages I came up with...
I thought I'd forever be a Pigma Micron and Sharpie marker person, but I've found a new love: the Copic sketch marker. The brush side moves so smoothly on the paper that it feels like it's leading my sketches, and I've found myself drawing a lot more the past few days...
Sketching in the car, while waiting to pick up the kid at camp
Bird sketch, merely because I saw the Copic marker and I couldn't not pick it up
Floral sketch to warm up for summer school class
As I wrote in my last post, I'm taking another Make it in Design course with Rachael Taylor this summer. My previous post was about my intermediate track submission, but I also submitted to the advanced track.
The advanced assignment focused on "Past Modern," with keywords like ornate, ornamental, geometric, and laser cut. Although I initially spent my time drawing floral elements (which I've done plenty of in the past), I decided to try some geometric shapes in Illustrator, and I ended up with a whole new group of work that I really enjoyed creating.
Below are several of my new patterns, both ornate/floral and geometric (top left was what I'd submitted for the final online gallery)...
I've been illustrating one of my favorite foods this week for M Delish Boutique's new sauce labels: peppers. I LOVE peppers.
Here are my latest creations for her pepper sauce labels, Chipotle Adobo and Red Tsunami...
I've been wanting more practice with textile designs lately, so I spent a chunk of time this week turning my recent floral sketches into patterns.
After scanning my ink drawings, I opened them in Illustrator and used the Live Trace function to turn them into vector art. I then brought all the vector elements into InDesign, mixing and matching one drawing with another, to assemble the designs.
I scanned in pages from West Elm and Crate and Barrel, and I used InDesign's eyedropper tool to create swatches of colors from the images. Then I tested out various background colors for my patterns using these color combos.
Here are some of the final patterns, as mocked up in my Society6 shop:
