When I began thinking about sharing a list of resources I use as a designer/illustrator I thought it’d be short and sweet. But then, when I wrote it all down, the list was longer than anticipated. Which I suppose is the goal of a streamlined workflow in the first place; seamless integration of traditional and […]
Tag: illustration
origin story
23 MIN WITH VIDEO As a person that works with vectors on a daily basis, I’m geeking out a little bit over this Vimeo about the origins of Adobe Illustrator and how a (completely brilliant) computer scientist developed the application to help his graphic designer wife and other creatives work smarter. Essentially redefining the future […]
It’s Time
Lastnight for inktober I drew this Jack Skellington. Then I turned him into a desktop wallpaper for myself…and decided to share it with my tens of readers! Click the image above to download the wallpaper (do I really need to still tell people how to do that? I’m so old). I’m not a huge Halloween […]
hello love – NEW printable!
Once upon a time…I ran a teeny tiny Etsy shop that had teeny tiny printables for sale that made a teeny tiny amount of money… I’ve since closed down that little shop. My life got darker and busier and I let the shadow of difficult situations stomp out the light I’ve always carried for these […]
slow weekend
I’m not even exaggerating…it took me two years to break out my “new” watercolors and paint something with them. Study above is from last weekend. I’ve not touched the watercolors since. I worked almost 60 hours this week at the day job. Yesterday (Saturday) I slept almost the entire day and today my inflammation is […]
holly jolly
After my last post (about being a light in so much dark), I decided to make the most of the weekend and get my Christmas cards ready. They are adorable, I am biased of course since every year the card has my dog on it in some form or another. This year the cats also […]