"Dark" the sneak peek!!! (contains a spoiler)

These are just a random few of the finished pages of my current project. For people who don't know I'm illustrating a children's book that a friend, Victoria Chang, wrote about a girl who's afraid of the dark and what she does to protect herself from the monsters in the Dark. Each page was first drawn out on paper, photographed (scanner wasn't big enough hahaha), and edited and painted digitally. Monsta (the little orange monster) is her guardian that she creates to basically be her knight (***spoiler allert***... I'm awful :P). Tory designed him to be orange and purple so I chose to base the rest of the color scheme around yellows and purples to emphasize the light from the... well dark.

This is the cover (above).

and so we begin... (no order and there are more finished... but again it's a sneak peek).

Summer Lalee Girl

My mother and I share an etsy online store called Draconos's Wonders (I'm Draco and she's LaLee). We have personas so that our customers can know who makes what and I'm working on characters for Lalee. Since Lalee sounds like lolli (lollipop) it's going to be based around kids or babies with lollipops (she makes things for babies and children... crocheted blankets, sweaters, etc).

Good Dog Hotdogs and National Hotdog Day

As people know... my day job is as a graphic designer at a promotional merchandiser. We have two major clients (Millercoors and Crown) but we do local business as well. One of my co-workers family members became a recent client for "local business" and she wanted buttons to celebrate Nation Hotdog Day which is this Friday. She didn't have a logo already so I got to go all out. Hehehe! So I made this guy lol. She was so happy with it that she is making him the permanent logo for Good Dog. I'm not a hotdog eater but I think he 's cute so I posted him.

Steampunk shirt design!

"Dark"

This has been a project of a friend and mine. She write the story and I'm illustrating it. I scanned them in, reworked some areas I wasn't happy with, and now will digitally paint them.

It's about a girl that is afraid of the dark so she draws a guardian that will protect her from the bumps in the night.

Business cards for "Mulata"

One of my co-workers is starting her own business of selling handmade jewelry from Colombia called "Mulata" so she asked me to design the business cards. The pink version was for the opening... but after going and getting to see the jewelry, I thought a more neutral and modern color scheme would suit it better.

Springtime flowers

Experimenting... as time goes on traditional painting is being phased out. So I'm trying to get my digital paintings to look more handmade and like my paintings. It will take a bit of time to perfect but at least I'm keeping it in mind and trying to move forward.