Birthday Buddies

Yesterday was Pauls birthday so I made him a little box of birthday friends.  I'm a little low on cashola so I couldn't buy him anything worth mentioning (sad) but.. who doesn't love a handmade gift!  It's not very Paul-like (in fact.. I think this is the opposite of like, BladeRunner), but I think he knows it's the thought that counts! I just can't help it if I have soft pastelly things forever in my thoughts.  

Winter Mural

Not actually a mural.. just the project!  It was the first one of this semester and I didn't like it for awhile, but I keep going back to look at it and it's not so bad.  I like the colors I chose... wintry but not dull.  I guess it (the illustration as a whole) throws me off because it's so far removed from the way I usually go about my images.  I think it looks like a coloring book page!  I was kind of going for that though... we were asked to create a mural depicting an American scene for a school in Africa to maybe use on their walls. I made it simple so it would read easier and also be easier for someone to paint who hadn't drawn it themselves.

Can you tell I got inspiration from Cleveland? :)

Oh, Deer.

Get it?!  Hoooo boy, was that a good one! (It wasn't)
I bought this scarf when I was in New York and was wondering why I did because I don't really wear scarves (but I do buy impulsively). It turned out that it's the perfect fit for the little forest boy I made last year!  I'm not so sure if that justifies buying said scarf, but it's good enough for me.