Summer in the City

I never stop drawing so my supplies are getting lower every day! I really need to find a art store! I found some yellow paper and decided to doodle on it a little.

So far its been really fun exploring East Aurora and being inspired!

The Chatter Phone by Fisher Price.

Fisher Price has made countless of memorable toys. My favorite was my Chatter Phone by Fisher Price. I loved my chatter phone! Before working at Fisher Price I imagined that everyone would have a working Chatter Phone on their desk. Haha!

Wow look what I found online! A How to turn your Chatter Phone into a real phone!
Very cool!

Comic Con fun!

I have completed my first week here in NY interning for Fisher Price. So far I'm feeling really confident that I can contribute a lot during my stay here and keep up with the rest of the team! Fisher Price is a great opportunity and everyone is so nice and helpful here.

Anyways I wanted to share some pictures of the Motor City comic con from May. It was Chris and my first convention with a booth and thanks to Tong and Rosemary I actually have pictures! (My camera doesn't ever work)


Here is a commission of a Hula girl! This was a fun request to draw! :D


Wow! Here is Chris showing his roughs of the comic Reed Gunther to a fellow comic con-er!


The comic con was alot of fun!!! I'm so happy we got to sit by our friends and make new friends too! Thanks to all our CCS friends who stopped by.

Wild thing... you make my heart sing!

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is such an amazing book. It has been cherished by millions of children for many years! Now that its been made into a movie I'm sure people will fall in love with the book all over again.
A tribute site called Terrible Yellow Eyes has been put together by Cory Godbey to recognize Maurice Sendak's amazing masterpiece, Where the Wild Things Are.
Terrible Yellow Eyes has some really talented illustrators contributing amazing work! I was very excited to be invited in all the fun and draw a piece myself! Here is mine:

So give your eyes a real treat and check out Terrible Yellow Eyes!

Katie and Shane's house is the place to be!

Thanks for all the kind words and congratulations from everyone on my facebook and the comments from the post before this!!!! I am very excited to begin my internship at Fisher Price.

If you read the post below you might be wondering how my weekend went at the National Cartoonists Society Reuben awards! The weekend was amazing! I met alot of artist that I have been inspired by for a very long time. I'll post more pictures once I get home! Check out Tom Richmond's blog for more details!

Right now I'm still in LA!! Yay! Shane and Katie were nice enough to let us stay at their house! We're having tons of fun killing Zombies on Left for Dead and going to comic shops! Katie even made Chris and I a delicious dinner!

I dragged along my scanner so I could post while I'm out here in LA! Here is a little drawing of Katie and Shane!


Thursday I'll be in North Carolina, Outer Banks!

Congrats Chris!

This is a drawing of Chris and I dressed for our black tie advent!

Wow I have alot of good news to update!!! Today I flew into LA with Chris Houghton. You may have heard Chris is the winner of the Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship! Chris will be accepting his scholarship during the NCS Annual Reuben Awards weekend and I'm his lucky guest! Yay! This Saturday is also Chris's 21st birthday! Wow what a great birthday! Chris is a great cartoonist and is very hard working! NCS really picked a winner!! Congratulations Chris! <3

We'll be spending a week in California then from there I'll finally be returning home to the Outer Banks of North Carolina! But only for a week because June 8th I'll be in East Aurora New York for the summer.
Now comes my second piece of good news! I have a summer art internship at Fisher Price!!!!
I am very eager to work with everyone at Fisher Price and I'm very grateful for this opportunity! This summer is going to be one of a kind!

I'll post pictures of the award show tomorrow!

Hey Chris and I have a table at the Motor City Comic con! Come by and visit us!!

Oh hello!

Here is the finished piece that I had only giving you a peek of a few post before! Sorry for the delay but I wasn't able to scan it as fast as I had hoped!

I miss Butterscotch!

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I know I've mentioned my cat, Butterscotch, before and I've done many illustrations of him too! Well here is another! >.<

This weekend is going to be sunny and wonderful! I'll be hanging out at Toronto Comic Arts Festival! So if you're there feel free to email me (kass204@gmail.com)! We'll have to meet up to say Hello to each other!

On to my summer adventures!

Here is my Christmas card submission for Ford Field. Its a different style than my cute work but I was trying to focus on Ford Feild and what they wanted. I used Adobe Illustrator for this project. Ford Field was looking for a holiday card that they could send to their employees.
They wanted to be sure that the card was wishing a happy winter break rather then Christmas or Santa or any other holiday. Ford Field's previous cards looked very traditional so I thought I'd submit something more modern. I thought back at the way they advertise and thought I'd match that style. Also the Ford Field's Detroit Lions just announced their new logo so I thought I'd make the logo big and top centered!

Life and Death

My first encounter with death was when my first pet hamster, katie, died. I cried.
I took it pretty hard...then we bought katie II and I was fine.

Wacom Tablet please!

Here is a tiny peek on some projects I'm working on. 

This my first attempt to do a tight illustration piece with my wacom tablet. 

Digital painting is fun but very different! I'll definitely be practicing over the summer!

I'm almost done with this one. Its watercolor/acrylic 24X14!

Okay back to work! C-ya!

What a day!

Here is a quick drawing just for my blog viewers! I'm working on many projects at once right now and I can't wait to show you some of my final work!

Arrrghhh! 2 more weeks of school! I'm really excited for the summers up coming adventures!
First I'll be visiting the Toronto Comic Arts Festival! I'm excited to meet some illustrators who's blogs I've been admiring!
Next, Chris and I are sharing a table at the Motor City Comic Con!
Than I might go to the San Diego Comic con later in the summer!
If your planning on attending any of these feel free to contact me and we'll have to meet!
kass204@gmail.com

Queen Frostine!

This is a drawing of Candy land's Queen Frostine!
I don't think I was ever a huge board game fan as a kid, but then again I had no brothers or sisters to play with! I remember admiring all the illustrations on the Candy Land board! My very favorite was Queen Frostine. I always imagined she would be a cool person to meet.
Here is the version I owned:

I think doing illustrations for a board game like this would be such a fun job!
Happy Easter Weekend!

Zoo Poster

The Detroit Zoo is holding a contest only for the students of College for Creative Studies.
We all only had a week but alot of people managed to enter! I saw alot of great pieces!
Here is mine.

She comes in colors everywhere!

Ah winter is over. Or is it? Michigan always seems to have a hard time to commit to whether winter is over or not. Last week it was sunny and warm, the next day it was rainy, and cold then snowy, now its sunny again! Spring is tricky in Michigan.
Michigan falls are beautiful though!

Art books!

I put together a little book called "A Fresh Batch of Sketches". Its a 22 page collection of my illustrations and some life studies! All pages printed in color! oh la la! I ordered a few and they should be here any day now. I can't wait!
Printing is always tricky you never know what might go wrong.

Tada! Here is the finished cover! I thought I'd show some process stuff too!
The cover was alot of fun to design!

I'll update you on how they turned out! Cross your fingers!
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Its a nice Sunday!

I got a good deal of work done today and It feels great! I just finished my book, news on that will be posted later, and now I'm working on a sci-fi piece.
Here is a little doodle I colored real quick.

Its me and my childhood pet, butterscotch! Ohhh I miss him so much! I miss when he sits on my lap and presses his cold, wet, nose on my face or he steps on my keyboard when I'm working.
Well I'll get to see him this summer and at the rate this year is going, summer will be here in no time!

rocket man.. err woman!

oh a carrot!

Painting

Another lovely day! Nearly 70 degrees out today!
This week is going to be a crazy one. Lots of work to be done and so little time!

Have a good St.Patty's day!

goodbye Spring Break

Its Sunday but I already have the Monday blues.
Spring break has been great! Its beautiful outside and somewhat warm!
The Norman Rockwell exhibit is right across the street at the DIA and I'm pretty excited to view a Norman Rockwell painting in real life.

DrawerGeek: Ninja

I was invited into DrawerGeeks.com! Check it out!
This weeks theme is Ninjas! So tadah!

Happy Friday everyone!

Mean and Green!

This spring break is going pretty great! I hung out with Chris and his family over the weekend which is always a fun time! Monday I did major spring cleaning to my studio (that always feels good). For the rest of the break I'll be working on my "to do" list. I have allot of work to do but I feel really good about that and actually really I'm excited to have a week with no other responsibility but to paint, draw and eat!

Its green cause all I had at the time was a green colored pencil.
Haha that gun looks just like the guns from the arcade game "House of the Dead II".

Project Snow White complete!

Monday I have Friday on my mind!

A doodle of my dad and mom!

Did everyone have a good Valentine's day? I sure did! Spent the morning eating breakfast with family at church. Then spent the evening with my valentine!

I got a pair of brand new roller skates, she gots a brand new key.

Noodle arms and noodle legs.
I suddenly became swamped with projects! Yay!
I decided to take a break and draw something random!

Its Friday at last!

Oh! A spider!!

Yess! Its the weekend! This weekend I have alot of artwork to get working on! I've got two big projects to work on this week and I'm stoked to dive in.
Have a good weekend everyone! Don't forget to stop and smell the roses!

Project Snow White

Here is a rough drawing of Snow White for my Children Book Illustration class. Each student picked a fairy tale to illustrate. I'm doing a Snow White book cover. I'll update the finished piece soon!

cardboard

Happy New Years everyone!

Here is the finish product of the young cowboy I drew last year.

I have a good feeling about this semester! I can't wait to get to work of some of these projects! I have Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday's off! Whoohoo!

Happy New Years everyone! Did anyone make New Years Resolutions? I did.
I'm going to the Saturday life drawing more often and filling a sketch book!
Also I'm going to post something new everyday on this blog.

iBlogger

Winter break is coming to an end! This last week will be devoted to finding a possible internship for the summer. I'm also updating my portfolio!

This new semester is probably going to go by in a blink of an eye. Winter semesters always seem more intense and fast!! Before I know it I'll be a senor! Wowwee!

These Illustrations are from my Adobe Illustrator CS3 class. The project was to create an advertisement for Apple's iPhone 3G using Illustrator. I wound up doing four different posters, each demonstrating a teen girl applying her iPhone's abilities in daily situations.

Here are some roughs:

CCS

The CCS mascot is a peacock. Student Government wanted an illustration for their buttons to give out during noel night. I heard the buttons looked good but fell apart easily! oh well!

fairy tale

This was for a recent project. I'm water coloring it now.

3 more days of classes till winter break!

Noel Night

Tonight is Noel Night! Pick up your very own Illustration dept shirt!

Can you find my drawing?

and if your a CCS student can you figure out whos illustration is whos?

cya there!