Doodles

Guess what guys? I get to be published in my school's literary journal once again! I can't show you all my piece until they publish it, but once they do I'll be sure to post it here. :) Until then, have these pieces I drew of Jennifer Connelly from the Labyrinth. Oddly enough, I drew one of these for one of my male best friend and I drew the other one for my female best friend.

This sketch I drew a while back. This one is for my female best friend. We've watched The Labyrinth together oodles and oodles of times and even have matching "Magic Dance" ringtones. I love the way Jennifer Connelly looks in the huge poofy dress and my bestie loves the little caterpillar guy. So, poofy dress Jennifer for me and caterpillar for her.

This second one is far more recent. I drew it...a week or so ago? I wanted to draw my male best friend a picture and he happens to have a crush on Jennifer Connelly. (And I happen to really like her from the Labyrinth in the poofy dress so that's what I drew for him) With this picture I wanted to try making everything one color, so I had him pick a color and I drew everything in various shades of that (other than the background). So yes I know her dress was white, her skin was fairer and not so pink, and that she is a brunette.

More Portraits

If you can't tell I really love doing portraits. :) This is just a quick one of my pretty little cousin!

A Little Movie!

This is what I was using the cars for! My very first attempt at After Effects. :)

More portraits?

So after Monday's posts about my self portraits, I realized it has been a really long time since I've attempted a portrait in Illustrator. Photoshop is my go-to for art of people, just always has been. I decided what the hay, let's do some more just for practice but who should it be of? I didn't feel like doing one of myself but then I thought about the adorable Sharde over at The Style Projects. Not only does she have the cutest darn outfits and crafts, she made me a tutorial on how to make a hair-bow (how awesome is that?). So of course I felt it only fair to make her a portrait rocking a hair-bow. :)

Self Portrait

One of my very first projects in Illustrator! A self portrait. :) The first picture was my first attempt, the second is my second attempt. I prefer the second. I think sometimes about doing another one, just for practice. We'll see!

I submitted another piece to the Aviator, I'll let you all know if it gets published and I'll show it to you when I can. :)

Art History Cave Painting

One of the very first assignments I did for school. This was for Art History. We had to create the rock in Photoshop, and then draw a little cave painting on it keeping the style, tools they had available etc in mind. This still makes me smile, I love doing illustrations in different styles.

Aviator Cover

Today I'll show you something I'm really proud of. This is my first (and so far only) published piece! My school has a literary magazine known as The Aviator that students can submit written and drawn pieces to. This issue of the magazine had a theme of "Halloween" or "Fall" and this is the piece I chose to submit. Not only did they publish it, they chose it for their "Editor's choice" award and used it for the cover of the magazine! They also wrote an article that featured both the Aviator and myself.