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A few of my answers for a "Message me a fandom and i'll draw my favorite character from it" drawing challenge going around :)

L.A. Noire

I’m ashamed because I hadn’t heard of L.A. Noire until someone sent me a request asking if I'd draw the main characters. Even though I wasn't familiar with the cast, they were a lot of fun to draw (although somewhat challenging due to their similarities as well as me not being familiar with the characters.) I tried to capture the uniqueness of their features though.

So here are a few doodles of Cole Phelps, Herschel Biggs, Roy Earle, Stefan Bekowsky, Rusty Galloway, and Jack Kelso.

Bunny Slippers

This past Christmas I knit some bunny slippers for my wonderful best friend Meg. ♥ It was my first time trying to felt, but I wanted to make her something really special.

(If interested in knitting a pair of your own, the adorable pattern I purchased can be found for sale here!)

Gram

♥ ♥ ♥

(miss and love you so very much)

Sherlock Holmes

In honor of Sherlock’s birthday, I wanted to post a few pen and ink illustrations from the Sherlock Holmes book I made. In my Illustrated Book class we had to choose a favorite novel then create a body of work for it. Sherlock was a given so I narrowed it down to my favorite of the Adventures stories, The Speckled Band.

Rather than just drawing the illustrations I ended up building a physical book (made it from chipboard, sewed the pages together, glued in endpapers, etc) using the text from Chris Sasaki’s children’s adaptation because I thought it’d be a lovely thing to have.

Happy Birthday, my favorite fictional husband detective. ♥

Strongbox Magazine

This past November I was contacted by Strongbox Magazine asking if I'd like to illustrate a two page spread for their upcoming issue. The project was adorable (the Editor-in-Chief's sister-in-law found a story she had written in the 4th grade about her friendship with her pencil) and I'm honored they asked me to contribute!

The magazine just went up and my work can be found on pages 38 and 39. They were a pleasure to work with so I wanted to share their publication. ♥ Thanks Strongbox!

Snake Necklaces

Christmas presents! Three of my best friends rent a house together and are all snake owners. Since I knit them headbands of their cats last year, I wanted to do something involving their pet snakes this time. I used pliers to bend little wire frames, covered each with Sculpey, and painted them to look like their “kids”. The snakes themselves range from 0.5” to 0.75” in size.

From top to bottom, left to right, their names are: Leviathan, Ninjin, Ziti, Boston, Glinda, Casanova, and Elphaba. ♥

Michael Morse

A commission for my friend Carrie ♥

Homemade Harvest

Whew! I’ve been busy all week sewing plush keychains to sell at the Homemade Harvest today (I tried to make a few Halloween ones for the season too!) But now that the event over, it’s time to start working on commissions :)

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.

Wedding Invitations

Wedding invitations: done!

Wedding Sketch

(engagement photo credit to thegoodness.com)

I was recently asked to draw a fun wedding invitation for a friend. They’re both active swing dancers, so I wanted to incorporate that in.

I sent the bride my color sketches last night and while both her and I enjoyed this particular one, her fiance really liked another. Tia’s an awesome girl and since she chose to commission me for the invitations, she’s letting him pick the design I’ll take to final. So since this drawing was cut I thought I’d post it here because it’s still a fun doodle of them. ♥

SRC Products

I wanted to post a final update regarding my last Summer Reading Club commission. The finished products have started going up and it's so exciting! I wanted to share with everyone since my portion is done and the library was kind enough to let me take a few photos.

When everything was said and done I ended up illustrating the characters for each week (including various versions; some with textures, some with flags behind them), hand written text, vectored images for the plastic bags, and drew/designed the folder itself.

Northern Tier Regional Library used the illustrations for their newsletter, pamphlets, book-recording folders, plastic bags, t-shirts, stickers, 2 by 3 foot promotional signs for around the township, and a massive 3 by 8 foot banner for across the entrance to the children's department.

(I should note I was not responsible for any of the design layouts other than the folder. I provided the illustrations and hand-written text, and they had someone else take care of all the various placements for each product.)

Anyway, onto the photos!

Stickers! (My favorite, but only because I've been a sticker collector since I was a kid haha.)

The t-shirt(s).

The 3 by 8 foot banner across the department.

An example of the signs that have been put around the area! (Cars driving by probably thought I was crazy for crouching in the grass taking photos haha.)

And finally, the folders! I designed them so the text appears sideways, but when opened up and displayed vertically it can be a poster. I was told a lot of the kids liked to keep theirs from previous years, so I thought it would be a neat idea to compliment that.


Everything turned out great and I was so happy to see the final prints. In a way, it's wild being able to watch a project from start to finish.