Justine Smith, of Handmade Blogger/Handmade Marketer fame, contacted me to create a header for her new personal blog, coming soon to a web browser near you. The directive was to create a Burton-esque-Alice-in-Wonderland-theme with a color scheme of Justine’s choosing. i wanted to do a loose, vibrant coloring in the background. i think the watercolor [...]

Just a quick recap. You all remember my process posts on this Alice in Wonderland themed party invite i illustrated a few weeks back? Well, the actual celebration went down yesterday! My friend, jackie and her husband threw the most wonderful, and fun birthday celebration for their two children whose birthdays are actually on consecutive [...]

Here is the color version of the Alice in Wonderland art i’ve been working on for a custom kiddie party invitation. The final layout has more details printed at the bottom, but ya’ll don’t need to see that. None of us are invited anyway. i used Spectracolor markers and Prismacolor pencils to bring this to [...]

Since i’ve shared this on twitter/flickr in the past few days, i know it won’t be a surprise to everyone, but this is my current work-in-progress. So here we go. Quite a bit of my design business (read; day job) is creating custom illustrations for individual clients. The rest is commercial desgin work, but that’s [...]