Cat Wedding

I went to my first non-family weddings this summer. Here's a card I made for my friends Liz and Travis. (Liz is a superb illustrator - you can check out her wonderful cut paper illustrations here: http://lizabethgoss.com/)

I'm clearly have a cat-drawing addiction.

Birthday Goose

Made this for my sister's "golden" birthday last fall. I'm glad she understood my weird humor.

Front of card

Inside of card

Giraffes!

This was a project I completed earlier this year for my dear friend Kayla (who is sort of famous). The girl has got some pipes. But I digress.

Kayla's close friend just had a baby, and Kayla wanted a special card made for the family. Specifically, she wanted a family of giraffes. When I finally got down to drawing it out (I procrastinate heavily without concrete deadlines), it didn't take me very long. I drew out one rough sketch to show Kayla:

 

The finished art looks pretty similar. I got a little crazy with Momma Giraffe's hair, but it's a good look for her.

And here's what the card looks like:

All I used for this card was some Micron pens I think. Some kind of pens. I don't quite remember.

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).