Book illustrations!

Here are a few pages from a children's book project I am working on for a peer.  It's basically about a toddler who goes around the world helping children in need.   The biggest challenge here was attempting to make each page look consistent in style, an issue I've never really faced before (since this is my first legitimate series project.)  I'm sure one of these days I'll achieve a bit of darn consistency.

This first one is the cover with the text removed.

 On this page I threw in a cameo of my favorite harmonica-playing rats from the alleyway....

Classmates

Some quick little portraits of some of my fellow graduates from the FIT Illustration program!

Party Down

16"x16" oil on board

My piece for the premium cable-inspired art show at the Bottleneck Gallery in Brooklyn, opening September 7th.  I chose to illustrate more of an underdog show, Party Down.  It's starring Adam Scott and Lizzy Caplan, and it was pretty darn funny.  Check it out on netflix and whatnot.

Rock Bottom

oil on board, 11.5"x16"
I painted this like halfway through my last semester at FIT, and I figure even though it isn't quite finished, I ought to post it before it becomes long forgotten in the art pile next to my desk.  Sorry for the disgustingly low res photo.

So apparently I do watercolors now

        As long as I keep the colors subtle, it's not half as bad as I made it out to be, not to mention it's a hell of a lot more convenient to work with.  Plus it also makes it easier to retain the glory of my original sketches; a problem I often face when using thicker media.    

      Anyway, this was a little commission for a coworker who just had her second little bundle of joy. Her kids are pretty darn cute.

Here's the preliminary sketch too if anyone gives a hoot:

The birthday otter

For a friend who likes pirates and otters, if that isn't clear enough.

"Draw a bunch of gnomes getting plastered,"

...was, for all intensive purposes, my instruction for this commission. To get printed on a shirt for someone's birthday gift.  I knew it was gonna be a blast from the start.