Monday, September 28, 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Update on the textbook cover


I fixed some obvious flaws on my textbook cover.
Tell me what you think!


I also have the updated pipe piece that I need to get fixed. I painted over a portrait of Einstein and put a pipe in there, haha

Love
Mary


Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Two Posts in One Day, but it's totally worth it.


So I have yet another project that I just finished.
I mean, finished isn't really the word for it. I am not content with the whole things but I do like the colors. I feel like the background needs some sort of texture, but I'm not sure.
Feedback? The text needs work too. Nothing like a nice boring oval.


Alright, I'm off to bed, at a lovely 3:03 am.

In other news, I miss my Mummy. :( For she is in Poland for two loooong weeks.

Sigh,

Love

Mary

ps,
I'm realizing that I can't open most of my projects up to a bigger size if I click on them. Is that an issue for you too?
HELP!
I'M A GOOD ARTIST WHO KNOWS THAT SHE'S DOING, I SWEAR!



Monday, September 21, 2009

New things!



I have been lax about posting! BAH!

New children's book piece that I sorta like.
It's done in ballpoint pen, and colored digitally.
To be quite honest I only like the pen drawing without the color. Oh well
The poem is about dreaming about flowers.





I will post the pen drawing once I get the file

Love,
Mary


Thursday, September 17, 2009

A little more progress


Updated color version of the pictures in the last post.





Love,

Mary!


Wednesday, September 16, 2009

So far...



For Topics we're creating high school binders for a certain subject.
I guess mine is a spin-off of science, morel like biology and anatomy.
We'll see.
I have a basic idea that I think will be very elegant.
So far, I have two sketches which will be colored in photoshop
and then I plan on adding flowers into the composition, and various scientific elements, e.i. beakers, insects, chemical symbols, alchemy symbols, etc.

Here are the two base sketches I have so far.



I'll post more with each level of progress. Whee skulls!

Love,
Mary


Thursday, September 10, 2009

Children's Book Illustration - Imagination


This is for Monday,
I really think it turned out well, considering I started on the first one and totally hit the wall and gave up because it was UGLY.
So I started this one brand spanking new earlier this afternoon and it was TOTALLY WORTH IT.



Let me know what you think of my watercolor skills. This is the first illustration I have ever fully used watercolor.

Love,
Mary


Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Swingin' London and Christmas Music



So I just got the final worked out on this Tools of the Trade project about Swingin' London,


AND
I'M LISTENING TO CHRISTMAS MUSIC.
It's actually pretty nice.
I don't usually condone listening to Christmas music before the wintertime, but I actually like it very much.

The project above will most likely be fixed a bit before tomorrow.
Now I get do to another children's book illustration involving bright colored vegetables taking a nice hot soak in a stew pot.

Love

Mary


Monday, September 7, 2009

Pipe Lover

Okay, it is finally DONE.
I'll probably tweak it a little, but in the meantime, I am calling it completely done.
Maybe 25-30 hours. Ugh, so tired.


Love,

Mary

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Topics Illustration progress.



Ok, Topics is eating up my life and here is the progress to show for it.
I had a fun time blocking in the big colors for the shadows, but it required a lot of tape, and a lot of paint. The paper is astronomically heavier than it was before.
This is just a crappy photobooth picture,
but now I am working on putting the pictures on the wall, and getting the knick-knacks on the shelves.
I hope to have it done by tonight, and maybe work on it a little bit tomorrow just so I can put the finishing touches on it before it it due on Tuesday.

Love,
Mary