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More sketchbook girls

Just sharing a few last black & white and another color image from my Sketchbook Project submission. I was excited to find out that the Sketchbook Project at the Brooklyn Library was featured last week in the New York Times!

Love is…

Been having fun with linework in my sketchbook with my “Girls in Love”, but been itching to play around with some of the drawings in color. Here’s one…

More sketchbook girls…

Just sharing a few more pages from my sketchbook for the 2012 Art House Co-op Limited Edition Sketchbook Project. Having a lot of fun with this!

Girls in Love

I’m participating again in the Arthouse Co-op’s Sketchbook Project—this time for the 2012 “Limited Edition”, which will include publication in a book the Co-op will publish in the Fall of 2012.

This time around I choose the theme “Pictures and Descriptions”; Afterall, that’s pretty much what illustration is all about, right?

It also seemed that this theme would lend itself to a good opportunity to combine & experiment with lettering + images together. After a lot of thought about where to derive my content from, I decided I wanted to keep it light-hearted and fun. I found some really sweet and inspiring quotes on love, and felt they would be a perfect pairing with some of the dreamy girls I love to draw.

And on a personal level, this felt like an interesting concept to evolve to, considering I submitted a 2011 Sketchbook Project with the theme of “Great Hopes and Massive Failures”—based on the miserable (but funny!) experiences of dating in the pursuit of love. Since then I’ve been lucky enough to fall head-over-heels in love, so it’s been fun to make some pictures inspired by this wonderful side of it! :)

Here’s a few pages:

The New Baby Food Rules

I had the super fun opportunity to illustrate a feature article in the current issue of Babytalk Magazine. The content was about new “rules” for feeding your baby certain foods at certain ages, and the art director had some clear ideas about concept for these four pieces that allowed me to tackle some fun new subjects! I loved the 50s-diner theme, and always get excited for a chance to use new lettering styles.

Thanks Donna, for this fun project!

Mermaids with a twist

A few months ago, I had a super fun YA book cover project with Sourcebooks for a villainous mermaid-adventure tale set in Coney Island. Given my love of Coney Island & it’s annual Mermaid Parade—plus anything generally creepy and/or scary—I can’t think of a project that could be more perfect for me! There were a ton of fun ideas to explore for this one, because the story is jam-packed full of amazing imagery. I worked with the art director to ultimately come up with this cover, which focused on the story’s evil predatory mermaid and includes hand-lettered title type.

This cover was well-received, but before it went to print, the publisher decided to change it to reflect more of the epic adventure aspect of the story & appeal more to boys (especially since the main character is a boy). The final cover that they developed is similar to one of the initial concepts I had submitted, and I think what they ended up with looks fantastic! The book is a really great, super exciting read! I def. recommend checking it out!

Logo design

I recently wrapped up a fun little project creating a logo for Life Coach, Kendra Levin. She was really great to work with, and it was a fun change from my book cover design work. We worked together to create a simple icon that embodied the intuitive spirit of her life coaching business through color and type. I combined hand-lettering with a font to give it a personal, yet down-to-earth vibe. She’ll be using this logo on her website, and in some of her printed promotional materials.

Kendra is truly amazing. Please stop by and check out her website! http://www.kendralevin.com/Blog.html

Illustrated map

The holidays always end up being a great excuse to make some fun, personal pieces as gifts. I created this one for my boyfriend—It’s an illustrated map of the roadtrip we took this summer down the Pacific Coast Highway, from Portland to San Diego. I’ve always wanted make a map with loads of cool lettering and icons. Plus, it gave me a chance to revisit some awesome memories from one of the best vacations ever!

New lettering projects

I’m excited to share a few recent hand-lettering projects. These were all done for book covers over the last few months (the book cover process can be lengthy, and often have to wait for some time before sharing these projects-so it’s always an exciting reveal!)

SECRETS AT SEA is a wonderful middle-grade novel by award winning author Richard Peck. And I was lucky enough, as the jacket designer, to get to work with the fabulously talented Kelly Murphy on her amazing jacket and interior illustrations. (She’s so wonderful! Please check her out at http://www.kelmurphy.com/)

The nature of the story and the art lent itself to a hand-lettered type style, so my Art Director commissioned me to create the title. I’m happy to share, too, that this super sweet book has been getting 4-star reviews!

Over the summer I also worked on a lead title for Sourcebooks. The project has since been postponed and I’m not sure I’ll have the opportunity to revisit the design/image, so for now just giving a peek at the title type I created. This is a great book, and I really loved working on this one. I’ll be excited to see how the final ends up.

And this last one was initially part of the Sophie’s Mixed-Up Magic illustrations in initial rounds before they were killed.

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