I'm trying to perfect my portfolio and, after concluding that I don't have enough black and white illo's, decided to work on this. It comes from an old sketch I did a year or two ago that I always liked. I like the energy. I'm mostly pleased with the way it turned out, but there are some things that I'm not as happy about. Does it work for you? I really enjoy working with b/w, probably because my colors are limited and I have to work within just that framework, making things work out in a way that too many options doesn't.
Sometimes playing leads to bumps and bruises. Thank goodness for kind brothers willing to offer a little love!
I'm working on another idea I have for a novelty book which involves babies and toddlers. Here are a few spots that I painted for it (the last two posts are also included). I thought they turned out pretty well. More importantly, perhaps, I got a new scanner!!! I am so excited. The top illo's are scanned in with the new one and the bottom are from the old (and that's even after trying to manipulate colors). I am quite pleased with how much better things are. It makes me want to rescan everything I have on my website. 
Here are a couple illo's I've done of babies doing silly things. I'm really frustrated with how washed out they look. Scanning things always does that. Sometimes I try to compensate for it and end up putting too much color in. Sometimes I try to play with the color adjustments (like in the top one) but then other problems come into play (like her green shirt isn't quite that tone, the speckles around her look digitized, etc). Oh well. I hope you like them anyway!
Here's the latest piece of work I finished (Stories for Children). Sorry about the lack of posts. I've been working on a couple projects that I'd like to send out soon, but there isn't much worth seeing at the moment. That and my baby is sick and teething again (at least these are his four canines, and after this he will hopefully have a break from pain until his two year molars decide to appear), I've been sick, and my husband has been working like crazy (fortunately, we've reached the end of that, we hope). All of this leaves me feeling quite weary by the end of the day. Thank goodness I have something to look forward to at the end of the day, although sometimes I think that it's part of the problem (wanting to do more with it when I've got other obligations pressing). 
