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Scenes and Visions | Album Artwork for AJ Harbison

This album artwork is for a collection of music composed, recorded, and produced by AJ (we’ve been collaborating again). Fantastical landscapes are one of my favorite things to draw, so I found that this project really resonated with me. The album is available as a digital download for FREE on AJ Harbison’s website.

I tend to think conceptually and wanted to incorporate that into this work. On the front you find a closer look at a forest on the side of a mountain. On the back we zoom out and find that the forest is actually growing on the side of a giant tree.

2021-09-13T22:07:05-05:00September 16th, 2016|colored pencil, Illustration, Photoshop, Sketchblog|Comments Off on Scenes and Visions | Album Artwork for AJ Harbison

Prince | #illomusicfriday

I’ve been wanting to try my hand at a paisley pattern for some time. I finally decided to go for it with this #illomusicfriday. I’ve got pattern design and illustration all in one! I like the idea of my characters wearing my patterns. Music is by Prince, arranged by AJ in a princely court style.

2017-08-16T22:14:01-05:00June 8th, 2016|#illomusicfriday, Illustration, Illustration Friday, Illustrator, Pattern, Sketchblog, Surface Design|Comments Off on Prince | #illomusicfriday

Smoke | Illustration Friday

This has been a slow month and by a slow month, I really mean a slow month for illustration. Everything else in life has been quite busy! So we’ve ended up breaking from #illomusicfriday for awhile. I don’t have music from AJ this time, since he’s finishing up with his master’s degree, but I’ve been itching to illustrate. Here is SMOKE. I was drawing a scene of a child rescuing someone among a band of explosive volcanoes, but I found myself more interested in the volcanoes themselves. This volcano was particularly persistent.

2017-08-16T22:20:23-05:00May 6th, 2016|#illomusicfriday, Character Studies, colored pencil, graphite, Illustration, Illustration Friday, Sketchblog, Sketches, Studies|Comments Off on Smoke | Illustration Friday

Shelter | #illomusicfriday

I used a previously finished illustration for SHELTER. This is one of my favorite illustrations, and I hope to do more illustrations that show this world and characters.

2017-08-18T21:16:47-05:00February 26th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Shelter | #illomusicfriday

Orbit | #illomusicfriday

This was a fun one. Playing around with different techniques and media. I look at this and wonder if I really should be interested in children’s books, since I like such dark and dramatic images, though AJ tells me if he saw this picture in a book as a kid, he would be “stoked out of his mind.”

2017-08-18T21:23:03-05:00January 29th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Orbit | #illomusicfriday

Adventure | Illustration Friday | #illomusicfriday

This one was a joy to work on. I had to do this one fast, which helped me to loosen up, and I like the results!

The creature is based on an old scientific illustration I did when I was starting my “Eleanor’s Fantastical Beasts” series. That series didn’t become much of a “series”, but I think I should pick it back up again. Presenting the Porguanallama of old.

2017-08-18T21:47:34-05:00October 29th, 2015|#illomusicfriday, colored pencil, Illustration, Illustration Friday, liquid pencil, Sketchblog|Comments Off on Adventure | Illustration Friday | #illomusicfriday

Prize | #illomusicfriday

I had to rush through this one, so I left out some details and refinements to the background, but here it is! Every piece I learn something new, and that’s even true for this one. That’s one of the reasons we’re doing this. I can’t help but laugh every time I hear the music AJ did for Prize. It’s a perfect match for the illustration too.

2017-08-18T21:56:50-05:00October 2nd, 2015|#illomusicfriday, acrylic, Character Studies, colored pencil, Illustration, Illustration Friday, liquid pencil, Sketchblog, Sketches, Uncategorized, Watercolor|Comments Off on Prize | #illomusicfriday
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