Skunk Illustration

A little skunk walking around in the woods... 8 1/2 x 11 in.

Detail

& another detail...

Squirrel

A new little squirrel friend I drew in the park a few nights back...

I've drawn so many illustrations this summer that are all collecting dust on my desktop...I'll be sure to post the rest soon!

Doe and Fox

Meet my friends Doe and Fox...

....just two kids sharin' a popsicle :)

I've been drawing so many animals in clothes recently...I'm thinking of making a series out of it, but we'll see :)

Quilted Hot Air Balloon Conceptional Design

The assignment was to create a capsule conceptional design collection, which was interesting because prior to this project I had never considered myself a conceptional designer in the slightest...but after a little thought I realized how many ideas I had within the category.

My professor told us to be really creative with the assignment and not think as the clothes as 'clothes'--to think of them more as art, which really helped me not limit myself. I went a little crazy...but it seems like the times I just go for it are the times I create my best work.

I first did a lot of library research on basket making, macrame knotting, and many forms of weaving. My goal was to create human-esq/fashion-forward/sculptural-art hot air balloons.

I looked at the structure of large baskets and thought about how those techniques would react to a human form.

These two photos, that I found in an old 1970s macrame knotting book, were on my mood board (along with a bunch of quilting pics...but for some reason I never scanned that board).

A couple different techniques that I would use if I were creating the designs in real life.

Balloon #1

I was going for a body cast/weaved basket look.

In my presentation I said how hypothetically these wouldn't be on a runway because they don't allow movement, but simply would be sculptural fashion art hanging from the ceiling in a gallery. The weaving material would be a really sturdy cord, and would hold a human shape, with obviously no one inside.

Balloon #2.

If you can't tell theres a lot of detail in each of the body baskets...during my class presentation everyone was sitting too far away and couldn't see any of the weaving stitches which I tirelessly drew for hours, I guess this is the one exception of something looking better on a screen oppose to a mounted board.

Balloon #3.

Balloon #4

Balloon #5.

#6.

All the balloons and stitching I drew by hand/on a tablet computer, and all the fabrics in the balloons I scanned from vintage fabric books. I also photographed Sea Zeda, my lovely model. Thank you Sea for doing backbends for me :)

Sketchbook

Back in February (here) I vowed to try to post some more sketchbook work on the blog...so here are some bits and pieces from the last month...

...some little mixed media collages

watercolored cupcake girls with dipped dyed hair and pouffy tea dresses

playing around with different textures

one of many sketches I did when I went to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens (here) last week

Detail 1

Detail 2...I'd like to turn these two detail shots into postcards maybe :)

and lastly an owl collage

Woodpecker

When I was in Canada over spring break I woke up to see a beautiful pileated woodpecker outside my window. It was almost 2 ft tall!

And so I drew a little picture...

details

Double Sided Drawings

Below are two 'double sided' drawings.

They both look like one continuous drawing but then have flaps that reveal a little surprise.

The first one of the fish and crab I did when I was applying to RISD 2 years ago. Its definitely my favorite drawing that I made in high school....during the process of making it I had a huge realization that I was in love with art, (I never knew before!) and that I wanted to be in an art or design career field.

Side 1.

and BAM, claws open up to reveal crab.

Senior year of high school I did a huge individual project of culminating art and enviornmental science, where I did a marine biology scientific research summer in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. When I got back to the states I focussed my whole college portfolio on the dissected fish, crabs, and mollusks I studied.

I made this second one during freshman year of college (last year).

Throwing up fabric describes my life then (and now) I think.

Fashion design can be all encompassing.

Flap opens up to reveal some leaves.

'Cause even though I love designing, creating, fashion, and textiles,  nature the environmental is the basis for my work. I think this piece shows me dedicating myself to these two loves.

Detail 1.

Detail 2.

Detail 3.

All done in graphic pencil. 16x20 paper.

Cupcake Doodle

I've been having this reoccurring daydream of eating a cupcake that looks like the picture below all week.

Its so specific and weird, but what I would give for a cupcake with lavender frosting and a raspberry on top.....

Similarly all I could do in world history was doodle girls with lavender curls and puffy dresses....sigh.

*UPDATE*

look what I found a week later ;)