School Supplies

Ahhh.

It's that time again.

And I just started it off right.

I am going to become a planner user.

And this is the lovely planner I'm starting out with:

Poketo  planners. I ordered the yellow one and can't wait :)

Wings

The clouds were wonderful today.

Postcard Project!

This is a project I originally wanted to do around February but had other projects in the way so it had to wait. I'm reallllly glad it did because I had some things to work out (and still do) but now is a much easier time to work those things out than it was then.

So.

This is definitely going to turn into a series and I'm definitely liking most everything about except a few things that need tweaking. (mainly just my stitching skills and my illustrations)

Originally I just drew it out, not knowing if I was going to watercolor or not and definitely not knowing that I was going to go monochromatic. If I did, the rainbow coming off the Golden Gate Bridge would not have been drawn....)

Of course I had to stitch elements

I forgot to take my step-by-step process so had to shoot once I had just started watercoloring.

Final!

Woo! It feels good to have one done. 

I have a list of what I want to do, but they take about a week working mildly for each so I'll do my best with the time I have left. 

I'm thinking:

1) San Francisco

2) Boston

3) Hometown

4) School Town

5) Bermuda

6) Alaska 

7) New York

I think that's going a little too far down the list for what I have time for, but I'll probably move around the order. Those are just ones I'd really like to get to. 

I'm definitely focusing on places I've been because some places I can pinpoint things that stuck out to me and some are the more notorious landmarks, but were still important to me.

Wish me luck!

Keep it up

I have a lovely plane photo to share AND more to add to my cover designs! I'm finally in a place to get some work done and I'm getting more excited to see it finished.

This is an Anthia fish. I thought they were lovely and it was brought up in the book so I just had to make one. Still need some slight scale details and then it should be good!

I really like the repetition and cleanness of small stroke lines so I just had to test it out in watercolor. I really like it. 

Thoughts?

(except it will go along with all the others on the cover)

Maybe more scripty  under the name?

There are many fish in the sea

I loveee manatees :) 

I'm excited to get these drawn over in pen and then put them into Illustrator and add color and more shading and try to make them look like nice old illustrations. It would be kinda cool to watercolor them.....hmmmm. We'll have to see!

A New Adventure

So I did promise to post what I'm working on....
honestly, these were all done almost a month ago.
BUT
I'm starting it back up because I WILL finish some of them! (and hopefully come up with a lot more)

So these two go together because the first page is a list of sea life that comes up in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the second page is what I've started drawing out. I want this to look very scientific/museum-like. It's probably the one I'm most excited about.(little scared of all the drawings involved though)

This one I like, except I'm having a rough time with the Nautilus look. I want it to be unique, but following the description from the novel. Gotta keep working on that, but once I get it this one should go pretty quickly because I want to keep it as simple as possible. 

Porthole! (And yes, that would be a scripty typeface which usually isn't my thing)

Gotta have my tentacled arm out there. 

So yeah, these are super duper rough sketches, but I think it's a somewhat decent start and I'm hoping they'll all push me to some cooler stuff.