Some early work for a friend's parent's new restaurant brand. Dig the retro barilla ad, and 60's simple pasta shapes. 

a gigantic chalk I did in utah for the sugarhouse whole foods. So much measuring!

sniffling

some old stuff...

TOY illustration Friday

As it happens I was going through some old toys at my parent's house this weekend and i came across these gems, deserving of portraits, and suitable for this week's Illustration Friday

my very favorite troll (whose hair i never cut that is...) the "number 1 snowboarder"!

And! the classic care bear pillow, a printed sleepy bear (front and back) cut out of fabric, sewn together, and stuffed. Just one dimensional, no buttons, etc, SO precious. 

Made by my mom. 

WARNING.

I squeaked this one out too, i know it's a tad morbid, but most warnings don't warn of positive outcomes, right? 

I saw the saying written above the entrance to a graveyard on a show about haiti. I thought it was very beautiful actually, one of those sayings you can't seem to get out of your head. 

so...have a cheery illustration friday everyone! ha. 

Better Late than never Illustration Friday: WARNING

Pretty Straight forward.

SWARM Illustration Friday

So, there's quite a bit going on here; I had some trouble working through this one, I kept wanting to draw some kind of organic mass swarming, viewed from a distance and i wanted to encapsulate an overwhelming feeling.... after a few tries, that wasn't really happening. (will upload sketches...) 

But the most successful i think was when i kept it basically non-objective. There ended up being some wing like shapes, but mostly i like the action in the details of the drawing. Really, a scribble has a tendency to swarm, if you know what i mean....

also there are a few layers to give it a bit of depth.

I think this is the one i like best. There's an added collage element, that was an attempt to create a swarming, pulsing, mass, like you see insects and fish make from time to time in nature. 

some detail:

Like the 'wings' here, not sure about placement of some of these dark shapes. Still playing with it.