Eel Gijinka

I’m waaaaay late to the party but I wanted to make an eel gijinka too :) Her outfit is based on my very favorite in FRUiTS ♥

Beautiful Darkness

I finished Beautiful Darkness (by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl) last week and now I’m excitedly waiting for the release of Beautiful Chaos later this month. So here’s a sketchbook doodle of Reece, Ridley, Ryan, Lena, and Ethan.

Magical Girl Title Generator

I tried that awesome Magical Girl Title Generator and was given “Fall Sorceress Lyse”

… it’s like it knows my life encompassing obsession with autumn haha. Since my excitement could not be contained, I decided to join the magical girl drawing fun.

Monsieur Owl

Monsieur Owl! It was the birthday of my library-coworker-who’s-also-my-good-friend this week so I wanted to make her something special. We’re both knitters and she loves owls, so making the little guy seemed appropriate.

Clockwork Angel

I’m two weeks late, but that’s better than never I suppose. So here’s my submission for the first Weekly Art Challenge. I finished Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Angel not too long ago and absolutely loved it, so I decided to use it for the first prompt.

Divergent

Thanks to recommendations from my patrons and coworkers, I've been plowing through various Young Adult book series. After enjoying The Hunger Games I was told about Divergent and ended up finishing it in one night. I enjoyed it a lot and did some drawings afterwards.

Tris and (a drunk, not blushing) Four.



Tris, Al, Christina, and Will.

And finally Four, Tris, and Eric.

Please feel free to send me a message if you've read any other great YA series that you think I might enjoy. :)

SRC Cityscape

After the character illustrations I drew, Northern Tier Regional Library asked me if I would be willing to do one additional project. At the end of the seven week "One World, Many Stories" program the children's librarian would be showing The Red Balloon.

She asked if I could sketch a quick "iconic" cityscape of the seven countries studied. The children would then dip their thumbs in red ink and dot their thumbprint balloons across the sky to symbolize their travels through summer reading. She gave me a few examples of what landscapes she specifically had in mind, handed me a massive roll of paper, and told me to go to town.

There weren't many supplies available so I borrowed two sharpies and free hand sketched the mural onto a 3 foot by 10.5 foot piece of roll-paper.

Also! I apologize for the horrible photo quality. I hadn't thought to bring my camera so I snapped these photos with my ancient cell phone. Hopefully the images are still readable, though. :)

Pris

A coworker commissioned me for a fun painting of their sassy, big ol’ brown tabby girl named Pris. And since I’m not so secretly a crazy old cat lady, I blurted “YES” before she could finish her request. I just can’t help myself.