Jack Planted Pumpkins!

I am submitting this for The Third Annual Cult of the Great Pumpkin Art Contest (2013)!  I used their font for my witch painting and he emailed me asking if I had considered entering a piece.  I decided to sit down today and create a pumpkin themed piece for the contest, just for fun.

The contest can be viewed here!  

I thought a Jack and the Beanstalk parody would be fun.

Happy Halloween!

I finally forced myself to sit down and finish this up.  I really like it for the most part.  I wish I were better at typography.  SinisterFonts is where I got my font, so thanks for that!

...and also a few other color variations that I played with and mostly liked.

I'm a mean ol' witch...

Well, it's that time of year again; At least that is what the stores say. I work at Lowe's and we are getting Halloween stuff in already. That's crazy! Anyway, every year I tell myself I will do something for the holiday and most years I don't. Mostly because I have been in school. but this year I don't have an excuse. I still plan on doing a better one, but this one was a 30 minute "sketch" and was a fun exercise.

 

Giraffe

I was commissioned to do an illustration for the background of a children's book website.  I have started doing the drawings.  I am going to put a couple giraffe in there, so I thought I would post some of them up.  This is my first paid commission since I graduated in December of last year!

I have done a couple of t-shirt designs for people, but I will have to post those later.

update bird king process

I received some gracious help from Bill Carman about how to go about adding color to this.  He really helped me get moving.  This is close to how I envisioned this, but not quite.  I'm going to do a few more of these to figure this out.  so far there are things I really like that I'm doing, and other things I'm still completely lost on.

anyway, here is this update, for now.

better boogar...a sketchbook post

Today's sketchbook topic was "something green".  I imagined blue trolls comparing green boogars.  I threw some color on this quickly, but I may paint the original piece in my book in acrylic.  we will see?

sketch book post

well, It's been awhile since I drew in my sketchbook.  I usually sketch in a sketchbook every sunday during church, but as far as my regular sketchbook goes, I haven't been faithful.  for shame.

I was doing a business card design for my father in law that involved cowboy hats.  I've only drawn a handful of them before so it was fun.  I couldn't help but draw a head under one.  

not sure what was going on with me here.  the face is weird, but somehow I still like this...

I'm committing to a themed drawing every day, and the first day happened to be a mythical creature.  I decided to recreate a gryphon.  no wings, but kept the lion body, and used an owl head instead.  Hadn't seen one of those yet, although I'm sure it has been done.