Illustration Friday: Enough

Who can get enough love? (And who can give enough to cute kids!)

I just finished this for the August issue of Stories For Children Magazine. My heart was happy when my four-year-old son saw my first penguin draft and he said (very dramatically), "Oh WOW, Mommy. You drew some penguins!" He LOVES animals (we visit the zoo at least once a week).

Illustration Friday: Hoard

This princess has definitely, albeit unknowingly, hoarded all the love from this twitterpated frog.

IF: Punchline

What's the punchline to this haunted car? Take a good look in a window and you just might solve the case of the frightening EE-OWs.

IF: Worry

This boy is worried about his unexpected visitor! I painted this for the upcoming June issue for Stories for Children magazine. I hope you like it!

What I've Been Working On

I don't have much time these days to do a lot of illustrating, but I sign myself up to illustrate one or two illo's for Stories for Children Magazine every month just so I keep doing something. Here's one of them.

I admittedly dream about the great things I'm going to do some day with my writing and illustration more than I actually WORK toward those dreams. Sometimes I wonder if I'm good enough or will ever be good enough but, regardless of all that, I do enjoy creating things and I feel a great sense of satisfaction when I've done something I'm proud of.

Technology

So my husband doesn't really find it weird, but I was inking over this finished illustration (for Stories for Children Magazine) and messed up the left girl's mouth. It made me sick after it happened and, if I'd had enough time, I would have done it all over again. Alas, a teething baby and other responsibilities left me with enough time to simply finish this illustration just in time, but with not enough time to do it the way I would have preferred. However, thanks to technology and a wonderful program called GIMP (a free Photoshop-like program) I was able to manipulate things until they were a bit more palatable for me. Whew!

IF: Fail

Bo Peep has failed to find her sheep! Your job is to tell to turn around and then to spot at least 14 differences in the pictures (I know they're kind of small. Sorry!).