Wonder Wolf!

I can only tenuously connect this post to the Olympics, but I've been thinking about the Olympics, so deal with it.

This little guy is the Wonder Wolf. As you may (or may not) know, I worked in an elementary school in Beaverton, OR for the past school year (near Nike headquarters - Olympics connection) and the school mascot was the Wonder Wolf. I actually dressed up in that costume a handful of times, unfortunately there is no photographic evidence of this...

Anyway, I made thank you cards for student volunteers and teachers at the end of the year, so I drew a cartoony little wolf. He's got an apple to signify education, and a little cape to do awesome deeds in.

I let some of the kids color in the cards before I handed them out - I'll have to see if I can find one to scan in and put up here.

There was no real connection to the Olympics here, although I think the Wonder Wolf would make a pretty great Olympic mascot. Better than that weird blue thing for the Atlanta Olympics in the 90s. What was that thing?

More Monkey Business...

To continue on the theme of my initial post, here is another card that also involves a monkey. Specifically, party monkey.

This was for my brother's 18th birthday. You can never be too old for monkey cards.

I think I used the same photo reference for this card and the party monkey on the last card. Months and months apart. Weird.

Materials used: Watercolor (very muted), some kind of pen, Artists' ink & little brushes

Firsties.

So after having this blog set up for ages, I'm finally going to start posting on here regularly. Probably.

To kick things off, here are some drawings of monkeys. They were for a high school graduation card for my brother. I should have gotten a picture of what the card looks like, but I'm a terrible archivist of my own work, so you'll have to wait on that.

 The enthusiastic fellow above is on the front of the card...

 ...and party monkey is on the inside of the card. You don't mess around with party monkey. He parties hard.

Materials used: colored pencils, Micron brush pen (love that pen!!)

Whew. That wasn't too terrible. More will come soon, I promise (pinky swear).