My Cartoon Portrait

I was getting sick of my original profile picture because I felt it didn't represent my drawing style.
I wanted to do a cartoon portrait of myself to represent my crasy personality.
I laugh everytime I look at this! I also made it my profile image on my myspace page.
I'm sure my friends will get a kick out of this one.
I will post the final version of this as soon as i get it done.
Promise!
For now, here is the original sketch (I am planning to ink it and digitally color it).

Illustration Friday: Run

For this week's theme I did a pencil sketch of a grade school lunchtime setting.

Illustration Friday: Match

For this Illo friday theme, the first thing that came to mind was "tennis-match."
Most of my submissions have been in pen & ink.
I wanted to try a new technique and brush off the cobwebs of my adobe illustrator skills.
It was great to get back to using this program. Forgot how fun it was to use it.

TVT kids

After showing the illustration bellow, the school had some minor changes...
they wanted the little boy on the left to have a hat on instead of a kipah and a book instead of a teddy bear.
Pretty easy fix. Above is the final illustration including signature and copyright symbol.

This illustration was done for a private school who needed a drawing of 4 kids, 2 boys/2 girls of different age groups.
They wanted to keep it simple black and white.
They will be placing the drawing on a windshield sun protector (not sure what the name is), to be given to all the teachers at the school. Once the drawing is placed on the windshield thing, I should receive one for myself. I'll definitelly take a picture and post it here.

Illustration Friday: Play

This weeks Illustration Friday topic was very broad.
I had done a sketch a while back of two clowns playing underwater and thought it was perfect for this week's topic.
I re-drew it, inked it and colored it with prisma colored pencils.
I know most people don't like clowns....but I love them... and love to draw them in fun situations!
Hope they're not to scary! Enjoy!

B-day Card for Leo

My Brother's birthday is on September 13th.
Since he is off working on a cruise ship for the summer,
I have to mail out his birthday card a month early!
I hope he is having fun overseas and I wish him a great birthday!

Illustration Friday: Capture

Since I haven't submitted in a while,
I decided to do something simple for this week's topic.
Just a little boy capturing butterflies.
Enjoy

Torrance-Redondo Area Party Poster

My boyfriend is an LA County Lifeguard
He asked me to design a poster for their upcoming area party.
He wanted the lifequard tower to look like a greek/roman ruin since there will be a toga bar-hop after the party.
And he wanted to also show a lifeguard hanging out at the beach.
I have to thank my friend Barbara, who helped me come up with the perfect lifeguard image. Thanks girl!
The first image is the original drawing.
The second image shows the final poster layout.
"Life's a beach"
enjoy!