Small guys.

This is for the back of all the invitations.  (Also, I think it could be cute framed by itself!)  I'm not sure yet if these little guys (they're not little in real life are they?) should have party hats on if they're just on the back of the invites.  Are they on their way to the party?  Do they get the party hats from the host?  Do they resent not having opposable thumbs to help them put hats on and therefore wait until the last minute to do so?  

Next ...  I think I need to make some thank you cards to go with the package!  Then a onesie design and finishing some nesting dolls.  The stain I got for the nesting dolls is super dark, but it'll have to work because a set of nesting dolls is not as cheap as you would think.  I think I'll try to layer a stain of watery acrylic that's more brown than black.  (If anyone has tried this or something similar please let me know your results! It's on wood.)

Mid semester is coming much too soon.  

I thought I should probably mention this on here (not just FaceBook... duh), but I won in the Society of Illustrators Student Competition! So exciting.  Look out for my piece in the catalog and if you're interested the show will be at the Society of Illustrators in NYC starting mid-May.  

Here's what won.  It's a page from my thesis of last semester.  It's a wordless book about loss and grief.  

Post Card Illustration

Getting a design together to be printed for send aways.  Exciting/Terrifying.  Did I mention that graduation is in May? (AAAAAAH!!!!) But, you know, people graduate all the time.. I've heard.. so I think there is not THAT much to be scared of (except for life or whatever ha.. ha).  I just want to make sure I'm proud of my thesis and things.  

It was relaxing to work on a finished illustration that was (kind of) just for me.  His (her?  I don't know if these lil' guys have a real gender.  I call everyone lil' guys, I blame it on you Mom!) tiny head scarf was inspired by this super silly postcard my friend sent me from Germany (Hi Emily).  It's sitting right in my sightline, and it was too beautiful (like the Mona Lisa) on this February night not to draw from.  

(I have a feeling the last part of that sentence was not proper English. )  

Let me share the magic with you... try not to cry.  Or don't.  I won't judge.  

*music*

Party Bears

The Soggy Bears found their way into a Party City.

Soggy Bears

Thesis bears dancing in my thesis tears.  

(HAHAHA SENIOR YEAR IS SO FUN.)  

I finished one whole chunk of my thesis and then I decided I really hated it, so I started over with some lanky bears in mind.  If I didn't think bears and pine trees were so fun to paint, I would have hid under a rock until this senior project finished itself.  Watercolor is a nice change of pace for me.  I'd like to move away from using lots of contour lines.  

This whole thing is going to finish into a set of products for the first year(ish) of a baby's life.  Invitations and things to decorate a nursery with.  

Also also also, I'm finally working on a real website!  That exclamation point was uncalled for.  Most times I'm glad to be living in the information age, but man oh man, making a website is like counting the hairs on a fly.. which is REALLY impossible since that's not even a saying.