So, remember last week I meant to draw people wearing masks and I ended up drawing a ninja? Well, this week I drew the people I meant to draw last week. Here it is: People Wearing Masks.
Tag: asian
Veterinarian’s Office – Image 3
One more piece for Learning A-Z. A different view of the waiting room in a veterinarian’s office.
Veterinarian’s Office – Image 1
Here’s a recent piece for Learning A-Z. The waiting room in a veterinarian’s office. The unusual clientele is because this is for the educational market. The words for the animals (except for the cat) all have unusual plural forms. Wolf/wolves, sheep/sheep, goose/geese, mouse/mice.
Neighborhood Park – Image 2
Here’s another piece for Learning A-Z. A different view of children playing in a neighborhood park.
Businessman
A slightly sleazy businessman commissioned by Kyle Szklenski of Diurnal Productions. His company is a small video game company and this is for a scene where the player signs with their new employer. It’s a digital image drawn in Photoshop. There are a couple gradients, but mostly it’s flat colors with cel shading.
Treehouse – Final
Here’s the completed image. It was designed as a full spread. That means nothing important in the way of the center fold. Also, not much is happening on that right side because it would have a fade over most of that half with text overlaid.
Treehouse WIP 3
Here’s the scene with a few more leaves and the characters roughed in. I’ll adjust the placement a bit and work on the proportions a little. Need to figure out how to do the folds on the lower girl’s shirt. Then comes final lines and coloring. 
School Fundraisers Illustration
Here’s an illustration of mine that’s in the November issue of 435 Magazine.
Chinese Dragon Dance
I drew this as a sample for my art rep. It’s supposed to be a class, led by a male teacher, performing the traditional Chinese dragon dance at a community Chinese New Year celebration. The teacher is on drums, Steven (the narrator) is on cymbals, a girl holds the dragon’s head, and four other students hold the body of the dragon. Genders should be balanced. The class should be mostly Asian, but with two non-Asian characters. The students live in a non-Asian country. It’s for an international market, so the usual restrictions as to gestures and girl’s dress apply. Showing children with glasses or disabilities is encouraged.
Chinese New Year is in February, so I figured it was a chilly day. The sort of weather where some people wear their heavy coats and others stick it out with a jacket or heavy sweatshirt.
There were no specifics on Kevin. So, I made him sit in a wheelchair. It gave him a reason to be out in front and the seated position worked better for placing everything, I thought.
I know next to nothing about Chinese New Year traditions. Or the dragon dance. Everything here used references from a Google image search. Does anyone reading this know anything about this subject? Have I drawn anything that stands out as obviously wrong?
How do the colors look? Anything too bright? Does the background overwhelm the foreground?
Reaching Up Sketch
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 