C2E2 This Weekend!

If you're attending C2E2 this upcoming weekend, please come by artist alley and say hi! :)

Calabash Animation Reel 2015

We have been fortunate to work with Calabash Animation as independent contractors for over 9 1/2 years now. It has been interesting switching from doing all hand drawn animation on paper to all digital using Toon Boom Harmony. Please take a look at Calabash's newest animation reel. It's pretty fun!

Elsa and Anna

Here's my first Disney princess fan art since the 90s! This was long overdue. ;)

Elsa and Anna Sketch

I FINALLY gave in and did a piece of fan art for Frozen. Better late than never! ;) Here's the sketch, and I will be posting the final color illustration tonight or tomorrow. 

It's my first Disney princess drawing since high school! This brings back memories of filling sketchbook after sketchbook of Disney characters through grade school and high school. :)

sketch of young woman

Trying to get back into sketching for FUN! We're usually either working intense animation jobs or working on commissions. It's hard to get back into it and find inspiration. Today I got a haircut and my stylist was telling me how to do my hair like this. Very mundane, but that's what came out. lol

Children's Fox Drawings

Catherine and I were recently commissioned to take children's drawings and adapt them into color illustrations based off the Song of the Sea style. Their mother said they loved the movie so much that it inspired them to draw these, and then she reached out to us to make them into final illustrations.

This was a really fun commission, and we are open to doing more like it!

To see more of our commission work, please check out our website:

http://www.sketchyduo.squarespace.com/commissions/

Rescue Bots Commercial

I normally don't share commercials I have worked on, but was notified by my boss today that one spot we worked on had over a million and a half hits on youtube! How cool! Check it out. As with every commercial, it's a huge collaborative effort. This one was done by Calabash Animation.

For more of our animation, our animation reel can be seen here: http://www.sketchyduo.squarespace.com/animation/

4th Fridays, Friday, March 26th

Catherine and I will be showing some of our art and animation at tomorrow's 4th Friday at The Starline Gallery in Harvard, IL from 6-9. We'll be guests in Mary Beth Jansen Bellon's studio. If you're in the area, please come say hi! :)

By the way, I am so extremely appreciative that I have been able to live such an artist life animating on jobs and then selling art on the side and getting to travel a little locally. Thanks so much to everyone who has been supportive in my life, through social media, and/or by buying and sharing my artwork. THANKS!!! :D

Women's History Month

Catherine came up with this piece a while ago and I jumped on this week to help her finish it for Women's History Month. Here are some extraordinary women in history!

available on etsy:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/225951362/women-in-history?

and society6:

http://society6.com/product/women-in-history_print#1=45

Gotham Series

Indiana Comic Con, March 13-15

We’re packing up and heading to Indianapolis this Friday for Indiana Comic Con! As usual, our very dear friend, Celina Barajas, will be joining us. If you’re in the area this weekend, please come over and say hi! You will be greeted by three happy, smiling faces! :D