This is a quick sketch that I illustrated of a bird about to land on a branch. I intentionally drew this sketchy and fast to bring out the movement in the piece. I'd love to do a finished piece from this sketch in the future.
This is a quick graphite sketch that I drew of a pretty little bird. I really enjoy drawing birds and make it a habit to sketch them quite often since their feathers make for very interesting textures and shadows.
I love taking my sketchbook with me while I'm on the road. While traveling last year, I sketched my handsome little 'muse' with graphite in my sketch book. The second image is a close up. (My scanner is having issues, so forgive the fuzzy and blurred quality of the on screen images.)
I illustrated this a while back in chalk pastels on a dark textured paper. I did multiple illustrations of the same frog in different situations and scenes. This particular illustration is my favorite of the series because the colors came out so saturated. (The colors are much smoother and brighter on the original.)
I did these two illustrations for a client. They were designed to be hung side by side to give the appearance of one continuous image. They are rather large in person, and the colors are slightly different than they appear here on the screen. I designed the flowers to steer away from photographic realism into more simplistic forms and I felt that illustrating them in a vector program helped. I was happy with the graphic quality the flowers and the leaves had when I finished.
Kiwis are such cute little animals! I did this piece to go along with the image of the peas in the pod from my last post. I want to do more of these eventually. Again, this was done with Adobe Illustrator. Enjoy!
