Bird-illustrations

 A collection of  my bird illustrations See more here: https://www.brainmonsters.com/birds/

Short Timelapse character illustration about how to make creatures from closed shapes/blobs 

 

 

HOW TO DRAW BABY PIGS - SHORT VIDEO TUTORIAL-

Short and sweet tutorial about how to draw cute piglets. It is going to be a series. Sign up for more videos. 

Four Paws, Two Feet, One Team — our kickstarter is live now! A picture book about Dakota a rescue puppy becomes a rescuer himself and heals a veteran.

Everything is better with a dog. :)

Take a look at our video and Kickstarter campaign.

Sample pages from the book

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Yes, I can Listen! New picture book by Steve Metzger and Susan Szecsi

Coming soon! New picture book by Chicago Review Press 

Use the promo code LISTEN25 to get 25% off when you are preordering the book before August 9 2019. 

Click here 

#Inktober #weak #dragons #alchemy

 This drawing was inspired by my alchemic readings. 

Werewolf Inktober-Dralloween

Werewolf and full moon, Inktober drawing.

Princess in Disguise Riding Home Inktober

Riding Princess

Whale Inktober2018

Princess and Dragon Inktober2018 #precious

Princess and Dragon

Unique Norman Rockwell style Gift to retiring "captain".

Recently I got a very interesting commission from GA. A community employees wanted to say thank you to their retiring leader with a unique present.

Was it possible to change one of their favorite Norman Rockwell poster  and include their diverse colleagues?

The deadline was close so after a long telephone conversation I immediately started to work. I had to restore some parts and repaint others. Based on an old and small resolution photo of a print,  it took for a while. I also isolated the children in the foreground as they would be representing the employees proportions and positions needed to be adjusted.
 I got some references for the employees' faces from my client. Small accessories like logo and headphones needed to be incorporated into the final poster. We got a back and forth conversation and several reviews during the following week.
We hesitated for a while if Mr Schultz should be depicted with or without the helmet (a big C replaced captain America's wing) and eventually the majority of the office voted for keeping the helmet on.
I ended up repainting every bit of the poster and as a last touch applying some "distressed" textures over it to ensure the vintage look.

Final version of the Norman Rockwell art based poster.

BTW, I usually ask new clients how they found me and in this case was surprised to learn that they saw a piece titled Homage to Norman Rockwell, (see below) from me on Dribbble.

Inktober day5 day6 #rooster, #drooling

Inktober #rooster #chicken

Inktober, drooling #Halloween

#Inktober2018 #cryptic #adventure

#Inktober2018 #spell

Inktober2018 The Witch the Owl and the Mirror #TRANQUIL

Inktober 2018 Day 1 #Poisonous

Illustrator Day at SanFrancisco Chronicle Books Organized by SCBWI.

San Francisco Chronicle Books' Headquarters in San Francisco 2nd street. On the top of the building level 4, there is a gorgeous view form this industrial building.

Everything is ready for the presentation. Several novelty books and books with die-cut, pop-up, flips, accordion, texture gold foil and other fancy things are displayed for browsing on the table.

Art Director Amelia Mack  and Design Director Jennifer Tolo Pierce are talking about novelty books  and books up to teens. They focus on enhanced interaction for readers.

Little boy building a plane, illustration

Favorite Food or Fox and Cake

Favorite Word: Levelibeka

Treehouse

Landscape paintings for travel journal

Bristle cone pines 

Lake Tahoe

Fireworks over Stinson Beach

Napa vineyards

Sailship in the Bay

Virginia City

Yosemite, Toulon Meadows

The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter (work in progress) 

Working on my Wacom Cintiq

Baby White Rabbit pencil sketch

Baby White Rabbit pencil sketch
Alice in Wonderland

Happy Holidays!

Synchro Sisters Forever, Mermaid Dreams - Katie R reads form her book

WILL THEIR DREAM UNITE THEM FOREVER...OR TEAR THEM APART?

Chloe is a ballerina. Sophia loves gymnastics. Jenna is on the swim team. However, what these three best friends love most of all is playing together at the local pool. One day they discover a unique sport that combines all of their passions — Synchronized Swimming! But when the novice team tryouts don’t go quite as planned, at least one girl is left wondering if they will ever really become “synchro sisters forever”.

SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING IS AN OLYMIC SPORT that empowers young athletes by building their minds, bodies, character and social skills. However, the lack of awarness and participation threaten this beautiful sport’s prospects in the U.S. That is why the end of this book includes resources the allow readers to find a nearby club, learn fun tricks, and meet real synchronized swimmers!

Buy a book here: www.usasynchro.org

All poceeds from sales go directly to USA Synchro, the sport’s governing body. 

Winter Delight - Ice Skating Children, Illustration

Astro-Mouse or Girls in STEM

The benefit of being an illustrator is sometimes you meet and work with extraordinary people.