Ten Paces - Villains Week!

I can't really help but be insanely proud of this. This is probably the first illustration that I have done in months that I am truly happy with. And it is an excellent feeling. So, I had a fabulous sketch done by Eva Galesloot, and I loved her character sketch so much I decided to try an experiment with illustrator and photoshop instead. And I have to say - it was awesome.

And the final product:

 

TYPE!

I've been quite neglectful these days, but I'm back and working on a few projects that I will be posting in the next few weeks! 

Over the past few weeks, I have been concentrating on hand lettering, both traditionally and digitally. This, I drew with Micron Pens and played with photoshop. It is still in progress and has a purpose, but that is still in the works.

Okay, I have a HUGE soft spot for vintage type, slab serifs, wood type - you name it, I adore it. It's probably why my sketchbook and all my graph paper has been nothing but drawings like this. I am currently building a display font based of "The End". I tend to start drawing my letters with E, then I move to L, to I and build from there. This has been a wonderful experience and has given me some wonderful practice using illustrator's pen tool as well as the opacity mask. Snap to Grid is the best thing ever.

Well I Win at Just Being Awful

What the title said. Part of my new years resolutions (the ones I made up on a whim) was to really start posting and creating more. So, here is a little experiment I did today. I recently purchased several books of vintage type and have been drawing it ALL THE TIME NOW. I'm also getting down the pen tool. We're cool now.

Tumble my Tumblr...

I have a Tumblr now. Tumblr is here. I post silly things here. Well, I post silly things here too. Just let me post my silly things?

Shroomz 2

Shroomz 2, a photo by Sarah Straub? on Flickr.

More shroom!

Shrooomz

Shrooomz, a photo by Sarah Straub? on Flickr.

Shroom!

Pumpkin 3

Pumpkin 3, a photo by Sarah Straub? on Flickr.

I may have gone overkill on the dark this time.

Pumpkin 2

Pumpkin 2, a photo by Sarah Straub? on Flickr.

Another little pumpkin experiment.

Pumpkin

Pumpkin, a photo by Sarah Straub? on Flickr.

I'm trying something new. And its almost pumpkin season anyways so it sounded like a good idea.

Corgi President

Corgi President, a photo by Sarah Straub? on Flickr.

Pet Portrait week at Ten Paces, the sketch was drawn by the amazing Bryan Ische and finished by yours truly!

I'm trying to work in a new way and I like it so far. I really do.

Via Flickr:
Ten Paces - Corgi President

Rockabilly Week - Ten Paces

Rockabilly, a photo by Sarah Straub? on Flickr.

It was Rockabilly week at Ten Paces and I had the honor of finishing Marloes de Vries sketch!

Via Flickr:
Ten Paces - Rockabilly Week

Oh I'm awful.

I update now.

I GRADUATED!

This post may have come too late. But this happened. Will update very soon. Promise?

More Patterns!

I'm still playing with illustrator and here are some of the results!

 

Still Playing in Illustrator

Playing with illustrator again. I might be getting this better.

WIPS

Working on this one right now. Well, sorta. I have a stencil job to finish up.

Spinner

This was the first pattern I was able to make in illustrator with a more complicated repeat. Oh and  another pillow. When it gets annoying, let me know and I'll post 70 more. Whew...

And the Posts Kept on Rolling In...

I've been trying to get this down for a while now, so bear with me, I have so many more of these to show. These are mockups of my new pattern variations on pillows! Whew, it wasn't all that bad. And I took the picture of the pillow all by myself.

I Stand Corrected

Well, I didn't do my first set of patters correctly unfortunately and as a result I had that lovely white line when I repeated them. So I have to take back my point from illustrator. However, I fixed them and I've been playing around with color quite a bit lately, so here's 13 variations of the same thing!

At It Again...

I may be doing this all night long...