Satomi - Ballerina

Manhattan LDS temple

12x16 oil on canvas

Music Superhero

This was created for the Crested Butte Music Festival

Satomi ballerina

Fashion Illustration

This is a fashion illustration piece I did for an article of clothing for Shabby Apple.

Hmmmm

Ok, so I'm actually allergic to dairy, so that creamy stuff on top... not really an option for me... but they are so pretty!!!!!!

Delicia

This illustration started out being a portrait of my mom for a family cook book and turned into this character named Delicia. She is a Supercook/dancer and I love her :).

My family 15 years ago

I figured since I can illustrate I could recreate my family memories of 15 years ago. The girl with the baseball hat is me :). And my mom really is great! Oh and the phone represents my oldest sister since she called my mom every day and talked for hours. 

Vacation in New York

The two girls in this picture commissioned me to illustrate their family vacation in New York City and gave it to their parents for Christmas. They loved it. And I thought it was a really fun project to work on.

baseball team

To my closest friends...

If there was one person in the world I felt comfortable enough taking care of business while on the phone it would be YOU!

P.S. Sometimes I like re-doing artwork in a different medium just to see what happens.

Friends

If there was one person I felt comfortable enough talking to in this position, it would be YOU!

family portrait

So, my boss found some doodles I made of his kids with crayons and commissioned me to paint a "cartoony" family portrait for his wife as a gift for their 9 year wedding anniversary. Thank goodness she loved it. :)

shoe

Sometimes a girl just needs to draw a shoe.

dancing bananas

Matilda

A Wrinkle in Time

I decided to try a new style just for fun.

Barbershop Music Appreciation Day

Tea Party

Elf Tails

Very frosty Christmas

Recently I have decided to create 4 new illustrations a week. As part of this goal I chose a few different topics to illustrate. One of them is to create 3 chapter heading illustrations for a Harry Potter book. It's been years since I've looked at them and could hardly remember any details. So, in order to be unbiased of the existing illustrations I covered the illustration (with closed eyes)with a business card before I started reading. This way I couldn't see the illustration. Unfortunately the general illustration ended up being the same every time. But I guess that's what happens when you are working with the same chapter. But the details are a little different.

Josh

Cinderella

I know it's time to start illustrating other things than fairy tales, but I just wanted to re-do this illustration I did when I was in college. I have one similar to it... and just thought I would change it up a little. 

Verily Magazine Article on female villains

I really enjoyed working on this project since I love illustrating fairy tales and especially villains. 

Tourist Appreciation Day

Kate

This is not my hat

I've decided to post more again..... so here is my first post... in a long time. This is a personal project done with watercolor on illustration board and ink.

REVIEW

One of the fun things about having a book published is to find reviews later on..... I thought this one was very nice and insightful to what the book is about.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865560863/Book-review-Book-of-Mormon-Children-teaches-valuable-lessons.html?pg=all

Rapunzel

dad's logo

IT's OUT! Go get it!

I illustrated this book in two months. It has 22 illustrations and I worked really hard during those two months since I also had a full time job illustrating and designing. It was a fun project to do and I think you should all get a copy or two :).

http://www.cedarfort.com/#%7Bselector%3A%22.ldsba-body%22%2Cmodule%3A%22/ldsba/productDetail.module%22%2Cparameters%3A%7Bproduct%3A%2220071954%22%7D%7D

STREEET DANCE series

Street Dance is the latest series I developed at my work, with my colleagues. It was fun. I've always wanted to illustrate and design a "hip hop" type of series, so when my boss suggested it.... I was pretty stoked.

My Designs at the international toy fair

The designs I did at work were displayed at one of the worlds largest toy fair this week in Nürnberg "Spielwarenmesse".

It's too bad the picture is so blurry. It looks a lot better in "real". Sorry I wasn't allowed to take pictures of all the cool stuff around but it was cool to see what's out there.

My next book....coming out this May

I was very excited to receive an e-mail from a publisher asking me to illustrate another book for them. It was fun and a lot of hard work since it had to be done very quickly. I had lots of help from ward and neighbour friends and am greatful for that.

Little Benjamin

This is a sneak peak into my next Book

Avatars...not like the movie

These are illustrations of workers of a software company. It was fun to try something new.

More Horse Cup Stuff

Here some pages from friendsbooks I designed