IF-Highlight 2

Earlier today I posted about all of the highlights happening recently, then I started playing around with a new program that I got for Christmas and it turned into this woman with highlights. Literal I know, but so much fun drawing... :)

IF-Highlight

Found this cool new app on my iPhone that lets you create really cool lines & highlights. This also seemed appropriate because Christmas is the highlight of my year (and the sled ornaments that my grandmother gives me each year). I also just put in an application today for an advanced Illustrators workshop put on by Highlights Foundation.

And now that I'm thinking about it, I forgot that I was just asked to submit samples to be highlighted on the website for the Eastern PA chapter of SCBWI. This year is off to a great start so far. Lots of highlights/blessings to be thankful for! Funny how the word "highlight" can remind you of so many different things!

Dream big & follow though...
- Kelli

Fantastic Giveaway from a Inspirational Blog!

They are offering a wonderful giveaway over at Bowl Full of Lemons!
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IF-Silent

- sent from iPhone

IF- Remedy

A good remedy for the common cold, headache, or just about any illness cured by over the counter asprin... is just good old fashioned REST! Accompanied by a good book, and tall glass of pink lemonade of course.

If you are the more dramatic type throw in an ice pack too, if it makes you feel better. No matter what you do, make sure you unplug for one full day, keep a note book handy for new ideas, but leave the iphone, nook & laptop OFF! :)

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Great Giveaway!!!!

There’s a lovely give away from @BeckyHigginsLLC on the @RTreasuredBaby blog today! http://ourtreasuredbaby.com/we-redecorated/

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IF-Rescue

Illustration Friday- "Rescue"

It's sad to see some Manatees at the Aquarium, but then you quickly realize that most of them have been RESCUED & nursed back to health rather than left in the harbor to be run over by powerboats, and tourists. Such sweet animals!

IF- Expired

This weeks word is expired. Which is just about how I feel right now :) Long day...

IF- Perspective

Sometimes it just takes one look at your children to get all the perspective you need...

Tutorial

I discovered this great little website (http://vectips.com) with some helpful advice for Vector Illustrators. So for the fun of it, I went through one of the tutorials to make a Strawberry (improvising since I'm still using CS) & this is what I came up with. Not quite like the actual picture, but still fun! I even learned how to make my own brush stroke that I used on the top of the strawberry for the leaves!

IF- Propagate

Illustration Friday: "Propagate"
which does not mean "to Prop a Gate"...
I know dumb joke, but it has been a long week :)

IF- "Adrift"

Poor Harry Hippo wandered from the herd to take a dip in the ocean & got stuck in his floaty ring. Before he knew it the current carried him out to sea........ it was a very bad day for Harry.

New Doodles...

I have been working on some new techniques and breaking in the tablet a little more...

I'm not 100% sure which medium is more comfortable, because honestly they both are comfortable. I have more fun working in illustrator, and can create more details that pop out of my mind! Photoshop can has some cool effects, but you always run into pixelation problems, and editing many rounds of revisions could become a nightmare... I think I'll stick with what feels right.

IF-Hatch

I have not posted since Thanksgiving... wow time flies! The word Hatch inspireed me to embellish on a doodle that keeps popping up in my notebooks, sketchbooks and client's to do lists. This little chicken was created with one long stroke with the exception of the beak, legs and shading. (That was the part that I embellished). The word "Hatched" also created a funny story in my mind of a mama bird coming back to her egg, only to find this big polka dot egg, and nothing inside. You have to wonder, was this her bird? or was it something else? Maybe I can eventually build onto it...

IF-Crunchy

I finally finished this drawing inspired by the word "Frozen" from a couple of weeks ago, but Crunchy seemed to be fitting as well... I might tweak it a little more for my portfolio, but am glad to have just had this quiet time off while we were in NY for Thanksgiving to work on a couple of unfinished projects. Hope to get a couple more wrapped during football on Sunday.

IF-Music

I had an art professor in college who drew a beautiful illustration on rice paper of Dizzy Gillespie. He was actually sitting on front of him watching him perform LIVE, and he drew him blindly on the paper with only the light of the candles on the table and the stage lighting. Then he went back into the drawing and then drew Dizzy coming out of his own instrument. I treasure this drawing even today, and remember fondly how a large group of us would meet up after class at a bar on Sansom street in Philly and would smoke cigars and have a glass of wine after class. This drawing is a tribute to that professor who will remain nameless so he doesn't get in trouble. (Not sure if he still meets up with his class after school... it has been over 11 years ago :) But "Music" seemed like a perfect match for Dizzy!