January 2012

New Art for a New Year!

Here's a color version of the "Sara Holman, Queen of the Cupcakes" drawing that I did last year. Normally I'd go all out on the rendering of highlights and shadows for a illustration like this, but I really liked the look of it at the flat color stage so I left it as it was.

Colored using Photoshop CS5.

Purple Panda!

For Christmas last year my niece asked me to draw her a purple panda. I said "say whaaa..." Not being one to normally do a color Illustration with traditional art tools I said to myself "What the heck am I going to paint/color this with?" I decided to use colored pencils and I think that it turned out great! My niece loved it, as did the rest of my family.

Pencil and Inks on 11" x 14" Stratmore Series 400 Smooth Bristol Board, Colored using colored pencils.