Assorted Drinks

October 14, 2014October 14, 2014Leave a comment

Some drinks drawn for Hart McLeod for a Kazakh textbook.
Assorted Drinks

See, Talk

July 3, 2014July 3, 20143 Comments

A couple of tiny spot illustrations for a 1st grade textbook for Hart McLeod.

Revised “Poets” for Hart McLeod

April 14, 2014Leave a comment

Poets I was asked to revise this to make both characters non-white so as to increase the diversity of the illustrations in the textbook. I left the girl as she was, since she was already brown-skinned. The boy became black with dreadlocks. (Because dreadlocks are fun to draw.)

Revised Illustrations

February 17, 2014April 3, 2014Leave a comment

A couple of revised illustrations.

Dragon Dance

Dinosaur Bones

February 11, 2014February 11, 2014Leave a comment

Here’s an illustration I made for a workbook for Hart McLeod.

Dino Bones

I am somewhat concerned by the blatant workplace safety violations depicted in this illustration. 😉

Hidden Picture Image

February 7, 2014February 10, 2014Leave a comment

Here’s a commission I just sent in to Hart McLeod.

Hidden in the image are 12 pictures. They weren’t supposed to be TOO hard to find, so you should be able to spot them. A woman, a man, two girls, one boy, one owl, two rabbits, three turtles, and a frog.

Interesting thing about this project. They told me which hidden elements they wanted to see, but said that the scene was the artist’s choice. I hate that. That means I had to figure out an interesting scene and compose it with no guidance or limits. I love limits. Contrary to what you’d think, I can be so much more creative if I have defined framework to work in. Oh well.

Hidden Picture
Luckily, I pulled out this reference photo from my photo collection and used it as my framework. I took this at the Overland Park Arboretum this fall. There actually is a pond off the frame to the left, but it isn’t to the horizon like in the drawing.
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