Penguins and Lemurs and Trees, Oh My!

This is a wedding gift I made for my high school friend Krista and her new husband, Matt.  I had them fill out a questionnaire to figure out what they might want to hang on the wall of their future home.  Krista's favorite animal is a penguin and Matt's is a lemur and their wedding was on June 2nd (6/2), so there are 6 penguins and 2 lemurs.  The mountains and waterfall in the background are Yosemite National Park which is where the couple got engaged.  I also incorporated their favorite colors/ color combinations.  Can you find the hidden heart? (think FedEx arrow)

The Well

NUMBA 3! I'm not sure how I feel about this one compositionally. How is the fish position? General critiques welcomed and encouraged.

"The boy placed himself by the margin of the well, and often saw a golden fish or a golden snake show itself therein, and took care that nothing fell in. As he was thus sitting, his finger hurt him so violently that he involuntarily put it in the water. He drew it quickly out again, but saw that it was quite gilded, and whatsoever pains he took to wash the gold off again, all was to no purpose."

So I've been working on this idea which is to create narrative patterns. I have discovered that I think life is a series of ebbs and flows, an S pattern of ups and downs, and people and environments and circumstance have their stellar ability to repeat themselves to a damn near predictable fashion. This is a first of many. What do you guys think? I'm curious about the style as well as its effectiveness as both a pattern (aesthetically) and as an illustrative narrative concept. XOXO!!

Chi-wowzers! A Puppy Post!

I've been meaning to make a new post, but since I've been working on some fairly time-consuming projects (branding for my friend's Esty site + trying to wrangle Dreamweaver into submission so I can finally finish the epic and overly-complicated redo of my own website) I don't really have any new 'work' work to show just yet. I have been doodling a lot lately though, so I thought I'd share some of them from time to time (providing they turn out well).

Two weekends ago, I went to Jacksonville to visit a friend and get web advice. I figured I probably wouldn't be able to come back up for her birthday next month, I made her a 'Happy (Almost) Birthday' cake and stuck this in it as a decoration since she and her boyfriend have 2 chihuahuas. It's prismacolor markers and Uni-Ball pen on a standard office note card. Surprisingly, note cards take markers pretty well with little/no color bleed. The more you know, right?

DONE!

ha HA! SUCCESS!! Here it is, I'm rather very happy with this one. Any final crits? I had only one specific question. My original drawing has Jon in the left side of the composition. I provided a fliped version, better? Thanks guys!

Sketch 2

Here is sketch numba two. Took me too long to sit down and do it, but here ya go. I want to move away from the super render of the first piece and gear this series more stylized and animation like. (like the entirety of all my other stuff.) Thoughts please!

Adventures In Freelancing -- Part II

As I mentioned before, Steve is a pretty consistent source of clientele. This time, one of his roommates needed a website for a web series he is making entitled Arklay. It tells of the events leading up to a big zombie outbreak and the conspiracy behind its origin.

For the website, he wanted something very basic, and without any heavy navigation. The idea is that there are five key phrases, each with an accompanying video. There isn't any indicator of what phrases the videos are linked from, so the viewer has to search for the link amongst the cluster of crazed writing. As of right know there is only one video up (spoiler alert: you can watch it by clicking the not-so-subtle bloody words), and I'll be updating the site with the others as they are completed. You can visit the website by clicking here.

Fun fact: the bird in the Twitter icon on the bottom of the main page is undead (it has x-ed out eyes), but it ended up being so small you can't tell. What can I say, superfluous details are my bread and butter.