Lucky Elephant

Cupcake Mag is giving away gorgeous Lucky Elephant bracelets.  I could never afford one on my own, so here's my little post letting you all knowing about it and gaining myself another entry.

Snow White

With Once Upon a Time gracing our televisions and a variety of new Snow White movies out, I felt compelled to do a new Snow White piece. I'm not actually all that partial to the story of Snow White. Sleeping Beauty is my favorite Disney movie and Beauty is my favorite fairy-tale retelling, but I've never drawn illustrations for either of those! I think the Snow White story just has more compelling imagery.

What's your favorite fairy tale? 

I drew this for an Art Gala earlier this year

Too Early

I know it isn't even remotely time to be thinking about Christmas. I don't like Christmas music or decorations to happen early. I'd really prefer it if they trickled in slowly after Thanksgiving had fully passed. It would be a little more graceful. A lot more magic.  But I'm in the wrong line of business for that. Even as late as local companies push Christmas advertising, I have to start designing those ads now if they're going to be ready in time for the early  December publications.

How do you feel about the holidays? Which one is your favorite?

Self Portrait

This is me today. Just for fun.

Hidden Garden

I enter a lot of give-aways online and sometimes I win! This month  I won a give-away over at Etsy Stalker and got a gorgeous necklace from Hidden Garden 11 on etsy!

I was pretty excited about winning this one and even more excited when I opened the package. A lot of the jewelry I win is pretty, but not made out of the best materials. I can tell this necklace is well made just from how it feels. The chain is sturdy and that is not just some epoxy sticker slapped on top of a leaf sliver and scrabble tile, that's poured resin my friends. The silver setting comes up around the sides and fits perfectly.

They were also extra sweet and included some little candies. Too fun!





You can read Etsy Stalker's interview with Vanja and Morana of Hidden Garden here.

Another Day, Another Doodle

Just a little doodle girl and a background motif I recycled from invitations I made for my sister.

Preliminary Sketching

I've been sketching out some ideas for a little children's story. Not for publication, just to enhance my portfolio. Most of my illustrative work is a single image for a story, where publisher's like to see that you can complete a story arc and draw the same character over and over again.

I sketched this out at the laundromat, which is one of the best places to sketch in spite of all the noisy machines, screaming kids, and heated conversations in Spanish. Or maybe because of them. How would I know?

The only bad thing about sketching there was that I didn't have a ruler with me, so I was just guessing at the perspective. But I think it's a good first run. Or second run, initially I'd thought to draw this scene from above, but I realized pretty quickly that, that wasn't the angle I was really looking for.