Mapping the Quest

A map simplifying young Prince Ivan's travels, in search of the fabled firebird. I took some liberties in detailing the kingdoms; according to the original tale there's no specification of where the kingdoms are located.

Rise and Fall of the Civilization of Angkor

A Narrative assignment, where one had to create 3 illustrations that paired with a magazine article of their choice. Mine was from National Geographic -an intriguing article about the rise and fall of an ancient Cambodian civilization, owing each part of its success and failure to its irrigational ingenuity.

War Bird

Done in acrylic, on rives bfk paper. I'm unsure of whether scale was captured to a t, but am happy with the color-blending on the plane.

Color Testing, Pt. 2

So, apparently colors on my mitsubishi monitor (hooked up to a Mac G4) look more vibrant and beautiful than they do on my Dell's, and this is a problem because the Dell is the correctly calibrated version. While I try to sort things out, enjoy some watercolor doodles I messed around with in photoshop.

Attack of the Summer Courses!

Last week marked the end of Child Lit class; it was a lot of fun and way too short, but at least finishing it (and hopefully getting credited) will be the first real accomplishment I've made all summer.
Anyway, onto the PICS. My final Project was to write and design a picture book; for the most part I'm actually proud of it, due to the fact that 1.) I've never pushed myself to write anything other than essays before, 2.) Skelton (big blue thing I drew below) got to be the star of the book, and 3.) I used real media (watercolors & charcoal) on the illustrations rather than sticking with photoshops/digital media. Just who do you think you are Shanti Jones, Arthur Rackham or something?

These are some examples of the 20-something illustrations, so please enjoy! Critiques are WELCOME, as I'm currently still working on polishing the final product. Teacher loved it, which made me think if I gussied everything up enough, it would be worth while to print out a copy or two.












(will post more soon! until then, fin for now!)

Lepidoptera

My fascination for these spunky little creatures is ever growing. I've yet to sketch it, but both Rosy Maples and Lunas have been visiting my porch light at night.