Phone Licker!

YSA comic #5 here.  This one was inspired by a good friend of mine who actually licks her phone to clean it (disgusting I know).  But she isn't the only one with this habit.  Apparently there are several people in the world today who use their tongues to clean their phones.  Are you a phone licker?

Vector Crabs

As a continuing project with the crabs, I was asked to make vector versions of some of the crabs to be put on a banner.  So I went to work in Adobe Illustrator and produced these lovely little crabs.  The lines for the crabs are converted ink lines I made using the program Inkscape.  It's a fun program to mess around with.  Check it out!

Crab Fest!

At last, an illustration piece to post!  This is from a project I did for a graphic designer friend of mine.  It's going to go on a postcard inviting people to a Portuguese Crab Fest, hence the crabs. It was done in my normal style of ink and watercolor.  Hadn't done this kind of thing in awhile so it was nice to ink and paint again.  I had fun doing it, hopefully you all enjoy it.

YSA Comic#4

I swear I'm doing other things than just comics, but the turn around time for a comic is so much faster than illustrations and such. I like coloring the comics in Photoshop now because its good practice. I have a few books with tips on how to color comics so doing these YSA comics is a good way for me to try out the skills. I hope someone out there is enjoying these. I'll post my other finished projects soon. Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years!

YSA Comic #3, in COLOR!!!

I've actually been working on some paying illustration jobs, but until they're done I wanted to post another young single adult comic I did awhile back. I'm experimenting with line and coloring comics in the computer. Lately I've been using non photo blue pencil and then scanning the inked lines at 600 dpi in line drawing mode, and the blue lines don't even show up at all. It's a cool trick I discovered from my friends and from my tricky little scanner.

When a Lime Loves a Lemon...

I've been messing with converting .jpgs into vector art using Inkscape. As a result, I came up with a vector art version of an illustration I did earlier in the year. Obviously there was some tweaking done. The design is now on a t-shirt to be voted on at threadless.com. Please follow this link and vote for my t-shirt. I could win cash and prizes people! Support my future, vote for this shirt!

Sibling Caricature #5

At the beginning of the year, I decided that for all my siblings' birthdays I would make them a portrait caricature of themselves. Some of the ones I did didn't turn out like I would have waned, but this one seems okay. Normally, I don't post these pictures before I give the sibling the actual painting, but this brother saw the sketches and everything already so I don't think there is any harm in posting this image now.