Rally caps!

Rally caps are more effective when everyone participates, right?

Worked on this one for a while this spring, but forgot to post when it was finished!  It's the first illustration that really let me play around with my Wacom tablet (though it's still mostly traditional hand-drawn pastel work).  My next promotional postcard:

Cincinnati + Louisiana + Love =

My cousin Meghan (from Cincinnati) is marrying Klint (from Louisiana) in Cincinnati this coming spring, and they asked me to do a custom illustration for their Save the Date postcards.  They came to the project with a specific design in mind, to combine their two rooted places into one image and also to highlight the location of the wedding--and I had a lot of fun executing the idea!  I love the Cincinnati skyline and the suspension bridge, and the fleur de lis makes a beautiful, recognizable framing device.  I'm really happy with how it turned out:

Hey, I get to go to a wedding!

Thanks for the opportunity, Meghan and Klint!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Christmas cards are here! I used an illustration from last fall, but had to make my own envelopes because I couldn't find any to fit my 4x6 cards. No matter--another opportunity to creatively recycle is always welcome.

Meanwhile, things are slooooow at work, with students gone for the break--and many faculty and staff, too! I found myself doodling some seasonally-appropriate doodles during the slowest points...



I LOVE this time of year! So here's wishing YOU (and our neighborhoods and world) a beautiful holiday season and a new year of PEACE, hope, and joy.

Now off to write on these aforementioned cards and maybe make some Chai snickerdoodles if there's time.

Edited, to add: So the minimum order of cards I could order was way more than my number of family and friends--and I actually have a rather large family. So if you'd like a little holiday greeting from an aspiring illustrator in Cincinnati, email me a mailing address. (I'd do a giveaway so you could use the cards yourself, but I doubt many of you want to send Christmas cards with the Cincinnati skyline on them...)

Illustration Friday: VISITORS

Just getting in under the wire here this week! I'm hoping to use this as my next promotional mailing, around Thanksgiving, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for visiting (tee hee!)