I realized I’ve never posted any realistic portraits of people to this blog. So, I created this just to show I can. It’s a portrait of my daughter Katie. It’s drawn in Photoshop using a photo I took a few weeks ago as reference. This is an actual digital drawing, not a Photoshop filter trick.
It also counts for this week’s Illustration Friday prompt of Children. Well, child, anyway.
I plan to enter this in the Sunflower Art Fest contest.
Edit: This image has been accepted into the Sunflower Art Fest contest. It will be on displayed during the festival in De Soto, Kansas July 12th to the 14th.
This week’s Illustration Friday prompt is one of my suggestions. Isn’t that nice? 
I just ordered my next set of promotional postcards. So, if you’re on my postcard mailing list, you’ll get one of these in, oh… a month and a half? Something like that.
I was doodling hearts in Adobe Illustrator.
A drawing of the old stone building (mill?) out at Lake Olathe south of Dennis where Cedar Creek flows under the bridge into the lake. This is to fill an art challenge for the Olathe Visual Artists Association (OVA).
I originally tried to do this as a full-color digital painting, but working on it just felt like pulling teeth. When I started over and decided to try with thin brown lines instead, something just seemed to click. I’m not sure if it’s that good, but it satisfied me so much more than a painterly, colored piece would have.
A rock wall near the lake shore in Fish Creek, WI from my summer vacation. Just got around to drawing it.
So, I’m trying to learn Illustrator. Here’s today’s results. The fonts are Chaz, Ache-Condensed, and Brandywine-Extended. I didn’t make the fonts, but all the rest is mine.
I’m not really that happy with Illustrator. It’s supposed to be the thing to use for vector graphics and text, but I’m only liking the vector tools. The text tools aren’t really working well for me. I ended up saving the image to a PDF and opening it up in Photoshop to do the text. Now, the disappointing text tool performance might just be because it’s an old version of Illustrator. Or it might be because I’m still learning my way around. *shrug* Oh well, it’s good for me to learn it, anyway. 🙂
I just downloaded Adobe Illustrator
and this is the first thing I did with it.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 