Dinosaurs

Just a quick little spot illo I wanted to share. I'm finally making myself draw some kids in more modern-wear, haha.

Happy Wednesday! :)

Joshua

Tan Lines

Just a little something whipped up for the character sketch blog Glitter and Graphite run by Blythe Russo and myself. I think I like the look of my digital illustrations more in the end, but I still have so much fun with watercolors! Enjoy =)

Testing new techniques

So I got some advice from an illustration rep recently and she had some great suggestions as to directions to start taking my work. I took a lot of what she said into consideration as I finalize some new portfolio images for my grad school applications and decided to trie doing some acrylic work. I did this piece as a mock book or graphic novel cover. I played around with some type treatments, but I want to mull them over with some graphic design friends before I post them all over the web haha. Anyway, I would really love some feedback on this piece, as I definitely plan to continue exploring this method of working.

If anyone is curious as to the back story of the image, it is inspired by an original Hunger Games story... don't act so surprised! I also recently did a watercolor illustration for a made up children's story about a dwarf king's magic goblet. Really, I just wanted an excuse to draw someone wrinkly with a big nose haha.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful December so far!

Pinkalicious

One of the projects I've been working on lately is for a local theatre that is putting on a production of the musical Pinkalicious, based on the popular children's book. The way the set works is there are three large screens that these images will be projected on around the stage, behind the performers!

With this I tried to keep everything very flat, simple and childlike. I wanted to keep the linework more whimsical and scribbly to really give it the feel as if a children's book is coming to life before your eyes.  There are 9 sets of 3 panels that I completed total for this project. It was a lot of fun to work with, especially since this isn't a style I usually employ in my work.