ad astra per aspera

Ad astra per aspera

"To the stars with difficulties"

This is a kind of quick and fun drawing I started on a whim. It was based off a very similar sketch I did on a cover of a sketchbook.

Night Creatures

For the monthly theme for Children's Illustrator Club. The theme this month was night creatures.

I'm rather pleased with how this came out, but had some issues with the paper. It didn't respond well at all to the frisket film. I'm hoping it's just a bad sheet, however I'm concerned since I used that same sheet for a few upcoming pieces as well. Including the Skater Gater piece which will relies heavily on the frisket film and will be a lot of smooth colors. The smoother the colors the harder it is for me to hide any blemishes on the paper the frisket film may cause.

Also updated my webpage to a WordPress style site, which also includes a blog portion. I'm not sure how this will affect this blog. It feels weird to have two blogs that are essentially the same thing.

Sketches

Sketches upcoming projects:

Vin from Mistborn.

 Night Creatures. Monthly Children's Illustrator theme.

Skater Gater Roll-a-Rama

Under the Mask 2

So I decided to a series of the masked self portrait I did a few months ago. When I was in Hawaii this summer I asked my friend to borrow her two Venetian masks she had gotten in Italy. I plan on at least doing one more, if not two. I really like how this turned out, and really enjoy the two masks together. However the first mask may get a bit of a touch up depending on how the rest in the series turn out.

Check out the process HERE.