Card designs, etc.

A simple design with some cake variations and practice with a new style of lettering.  Possible a birthday card design? 

 

 Just a silly design I was playing around with for a birthday card idea.

 

A monster birthday card idea?

 Some practice with a new style of lettering I've been trying out.  This one sort of became more of a logo type of thing then just plain text practice. 

I really really loved this piece I created a little while back.
So I recycled and redid some bits of it and created this, which I like even better!  LoL!  I really like creating in this style, if you can't tell.  It's absolutely delish.  ;D

Activity Sheets / layouts

I took a little time this weekend to try to get back into my creative groove and ended up creating a couple of 11 x 17 activity layout pages.  Some of the items I had already created and some were new.  I really enjoyed putting them together (although they're not quite complete).  It was fun trying to think of how to put the pages together and to find something fun to put on them, although I feel like I was being too repetitive on some things.  Still, I really liked how they turned out.  I wouldn't mind making an entire book of pages like this.  :)

 

 Just a little silly something for fun to get back into my drawing groove. Still playing around with this style a bit.

 Just a silly layout idea I played around with from some quick and recycled images. Not really happy with it, but I do like the tree in the background a little.

 

 I created this little snail and thought he'd make a cute playing card design or something so I threw this together just to see what it'd look like. I may recycle him for another project though. He came out cuter then I expected.

 Just wanted to practice doing some 'scene' work. I've been inspired by game art lately, which is what I had in mind for this. But it's darker then I'd intended and isn't quite finished. :/

A few people seemed to like the mouse creature from one of my previous doodle pages so I attempted this. (The original doodle had been resized and the rain and background had been added to the smaller version, so I opened up the larger version and had to redraw everything to make it look better.) The rainbow background seems a bit off from the scene. Does it work or should it be darker and more sad/sinister? I kept the image as simple as it was in my doodle. And thinking about it now, I'd rather have the background with some sort of edging detail or pattern. So I may still revise this a bit. I wouldn't mind expanding it even into something of a larger illustration actually.

Just some random things to share with you guys before the weekend. :) Happy Friday! :D

Holiday Tradition

For some it's a holiday tradition to come up with a family photo for their seasonal greeting card. And sometimes, several members of the family can't help but wonder, "Who's idea was this in the first place?" :) Sort of like when you see photos like these here and here.

(And in case it's not clear, those are supposed to be owls floundering around in the snowman.)

Also available on Society6.

Frames

I've been buying pictures frames and painting them to coordinate with my paintings, and here are a few I've done so far. I've been thinking about doing some of these as Christmas presents, but I haven't decided yet. My favorite pick of these is the mouse. I originally had just a blue frame, but it didn't look right. The dots on the frame really made it 'pop' to me.

Cute...mice?

Here are a couple of mice I created on Facebook's Graffiti app. I think I'm getting much better with this app, but I think it would be so much better if I had a tablet. For now, I'm stuck using the mouse...so I drew mice! LoL! :)

Sketch update

If you've been following along with my blog, you'll see that this is a colorful sketch I did of the post it one I did a few weeks ago. I haven't done a larger picture of it yet, but I think it's working it's way there. This turned out much better than I expected, although I think it may need some more details or something. I'll be sure to post any final pics I do on this.

A Quick Sketch

Here's a quick sketch I did. Hope you like it! I might do somethingmore with it later, so be sure to look for it, just in case! :)