Gingerbread City

Ten Days until Forever

Here's a sneak peak into the book I've been illustrating for the past couple of months. It will be out in march and is called TEN DAYS UNTIL FOREVER .

This is what I've been up to

I'm sorry I haven't really been posting anything. I've been so busy working as a full time in-house illustrator and graphic designer. It's been soooooo much fun. I've been able to try out different styles which has been fun for me too. I'm also spending the time when I get off or work to try and brush up on my illustrator (the software program) skills. I totally recommend Lynda.com. It's amazing.

I'm also working on the revisions for the book I'm illustrating. It will be published in March. So exciting!!!

Something I did a long time ago

This was a montage that was supposed to illustrate stress. My topic was "having to clean" and how that can create stress in my life. This was the first time I used that outreaching hand.

Change

BFA Show

The next 12 works are the illustrations I displayed for my Bachelors of Fine Art Exhibition. I illustrated 6 different fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Cinderella

Evil Step Sister of Cinderella

Mother Holle

Mother Holle (girl grabbing needle from the well)

The Valiant Tailor

fighting giants "The gallant Tailor"

One Eye, Two Eyes and Three Eyes

One Eye and Three Eyes, along with their mother, don´t like their sister, Two Eyes.”You look like everyone else, and they´re mean...you don´t belong to us” they taunt, and they don´t let her eat anything, but the scraps from their plates. Hearing her crying from hunger, a wise woman appears and instructs her to say to her goat, “Bleat, bleat, my little goat, bleat, Cover the table with something to eat”. A feast appears, and when she´s full she recites, as instructed “Bleat, bleat, my little goat, I pray, And take the table quite away.” Her envious mother discovers her secret (through Three Eyes), and kills her goat. The wise woman appears again, tells Two Eyes to bury the goat´s entrails, and the next morning she finds a tree with silver leaves and golden fruit. A handsome knight stops, and declares “whoever gives me a branch of this tree, can have whatever they wish.” One Eye and Three Eyes try in vain....at last as the knight receives a branch from Two Eyes, she asks to be taken away. He marries her, and years later when her sisters come begging, she takes them in and cares for them.

One Eye, Two Eyes and Three Eyes

One Eye, Two Eyes and Three Eyes

The Three Brothers

An old man with three sons needs to decide which of them will inherit his house. He sends his sons out into the world, where each can learn a trade. He decides that whoever can produce the best masterpiece with their new trade will inherit the house. The sons go out, train well with masters, and return home. The first son has trained to be a barber, and as a hare runs across the field at top speed, the son shaves its whiskers into a goatee. The second son had trained to be a blacksmith, and as a coach drives by he jumps up and changes horse’s four shoes while it is running in full gallop. Then it starts to rain, and the third son, who had trained with a fencing master, swings his sword so quickly above his head that not a drop falls on them. The father decides this is the best masterpiece of skill, and the third son receives the house. The three sons lived harmoniously together in the house. When one brother falls sick and dies, the other two follow. Because they loved each other so much, they were all buried together in the same grave.

The Three Brothers

The Three Brothers

The Star Money

Once a small girl whose parents had died, was left with nothing but the clothes on her back and a piece of bread in her hand. She met a poor, hungry man and gave him the bread. She met a cold child, asking for a cap, and gave him hers. One by one she gives each piece of clothing to someone in need. With nothing else left, the stars suddenly fall from heaven, changing into coins...and although she had given her shift away, she has a new fine linen one, in which she gathers the coins and is rich the rest of her life.

The Star Money

The Star Money

Josie

Life drawing

I had fun drawing this girl because of the hat she was wearing.

BFA Show

My BFA Show will be up Thursday July 8th in the McKay Library at BYU-Idaho. There will be an art reception from 7-9pm. Refreshments will be served. The show comes down July 23rd, the day I graduate :). After this I will post my show on here.

Turning pages for his sister

Playing ball with his dad

Coming Soon

I am currently working on my Bachelors of Fine Art project....  and I want you to be so excited to see it so I'm going to wait a while till I post it. I may even wait till the show is over... in July. The fairy tales that are being illustrated are Cinderella, The Tailor and the Giant, Mother Holle and my favorite so far One Eye, Two Eyes and Three Eyes. 

I am also working on Illustrating a childrens book for a publisher. It's been really fun so far. 

ginger bread town

One day I will paint this. But for now, I just wanted to put up some more art.

Maybe living at home isn't so bad after all

Sam decides to run away from home

Sam hates doing chores

Little Red Riding Hood in 1930's Gangsta

I attended a great workshop with Armand, an Illustrator who currently works for Pixar. He worked on movies like "The Prince and the Frog", "Flushed Away", "Sharktale"... etc., He gave us the assignment to illustrate "Little Red Riding Hood" in 1930's Gangster, American South West or Medieval Italy. I chose 1930's Gangster. This was created during the workshop. So, I had a couple of hours to do it.

Little Sam

This is one of my Illustrations for the book I'm writing about a little pig named Sam.

The evil Step Sister of Cinderella

This is the evil step sister of Cinderella. I know the Story as "Aschenputtel". I'm illustrating the Brother Grimm versions of the fairy tales. Cinderella wore a golden slipper and the step sister was beautiful on the outside, but ugly on the inside. The knife represents the part where the sister cut off her toes so that Cinderalla's shoe would fit. More to come.....

BFA Project

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while, but I will be posting more this semester.
I will be working on Illustrating a children's book I wrote about a little pig named Sam and eventually have 6 book covers of different brother Grimm fairy tales and one interior Illustration per story. What is your favorite brother Grimm fairy tale?