illo

This is a sample i did for a freelance job I applied for. Its a book geared toward African American girls!

Portrait of my sister

the first one is the original drawing I did and the second it with a pattern put in. I think this is a fun way to incorporate fabric into a traditional drawing. I'd love to do more like this as fashion illustrations!

Greeting Cards

I've been working on a line of greeting cards recently. It's been a while since I posted but I'm hoping to have some of these new cards up soon as I finish them.

Yoe Drawing Session

I work at Yoe studio and recently we started having open model sessions. Here are a few of my sketches. Sessions are every Friday night from 7:30- 9:30 in Peekskill, NY. Join us if you are in the area! visit www.yoe.com to see what we do!

Merry Christmas to All!

I'm in the mood for Christmas! This is The design I did for our family christmas card!

Tutus!

These are some of the tutus I designed for Xcessory International, a girls dress up and dancewear company I work for. All together i designed about 20 tutus for their spring line and valentines day collection.

sketches etc.

B.A.G.

This weekend I went to the Brooklyn Atrist's Gym. Its a studio space that also offers life drawing. It was pretty cool.

Techno-Lizzie!

Here she is... Lizzie.
I caught her being a computer nerd. heh.

Heres a cartoon that me an my sister whipped up. She found a freelance job that needed stuff done really fast for a small budget, so we figured if we work together, we can get it done quicker, making it worth the time. This took about 15 minutes total! I love having a twin!

Coffee Girl

Heres a little doodley doo of the girl at the coffee shop i go to for lunch. She's pretty unique! Rock on!

Random stuff I should have posted months ago...

People

Life Drawings

Earth Day

Heres an Illustration i did as a sample for an Earth Day Book. I promise I will update more often! :/

Monsters!

It's been a while and I've been enjoying my summer! I have a lot of sketches I would eventually like to put up. These are some sample monsters i did for my internship! Enjoy!

Camp-out!

Lizzie and I are planning to have a camp-out this summer, so we made an invitation! People always ask us how we work together on illustrations, so basically, we take turns doing what ever we feel the piece needs and while one of us works, the other one watches. Its very helpful to have someone to work with because sometimes you cant tell if something doesn't look right until you step back. This saves time and basically its nice to have someone else there if you get stuck. Two heads really are better than one in some cases.

Happy Mommy's Day!

In honor of all the people in my life who have been like mother's to me... I have been so lucky to have several people in my life who cared for me in that way:) Some are still with me and others are watching over me, i know, but they are all a big part of my life and I love them!

Old drawings from Wednesday nights...

These are from Wednesday night drawing classes at FIT. These models were a lot of fun to draw. The class will be starting up again this week so hopefully I'll have more to post soon!

Happy Birthday Samantha!

It's Samantha's 23rd Birthday and she's one of my best friends! We've been friends since we were about 5! In honor of her... here's a birthday portrait!

Classy Party Ideas!

This is a logo I did for a friend. She's starting up a website called Classy-party-ideas.com and she wanted a logo that went along with her lovely pictures and clever ideas! So...everyone should check out her site!!!

Till' next time... stay classy America!

Children's Book Illos!

my sister Lizzie and I are working on some drawings for a children's book that our cousin wrote. We worked together on these pages. Its done in a combo of watercolor, acrylic and colored pencil. More to come!

Birdies!

a finish! Yay!

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

just a few more fashion drawings. I'll post them with color as soon as I get a chance.

Fashionably Late

Its 11:15 and i really wanna go to sleep after a long day of work but I had to get this up first! I've been meaning to put together some more fashion work so why not start with this?

Comic Strip

I did a few comic strips for this guy while I was still in school. He wrote them (a lot of inside jokes) about his friends and I illustrated them. Just so everyone knows... I DON'T NECESSARILY SHARE THESE VIEWS. lol

I had to find a faster way to do it since he had a very limited budget and quick deadlines. Something about it reminds me of south Park. lol. But he was really happy with it and hopefully his friends weren't too insulted...

Doodles and Sketches

The first ones a self portrait.

The second one is Geraldine and Alice from the Vicar of Dibley, a show on BBC thats so cute and funny i couldn't resist a sketch! I'm going to ad color and finish it. It should be up soon. http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/vicarofdibley/ <-- Check the show out here!

and the third one is a Buddha baby with a spring theme. I'm thinking of doing one for every season. Its looking sorta funny right now so I think I'll work on it a little more.

100% SKI

The topic for illustration Friday this week was 100%. I'm planning on going Skiing in a few weeks with my cousins. I've never gone before, but I'll give it 100% even though I might come back with broken bones. Like how i tied that in?

Well anyway... this was done in Photoshop, but i wanted it to look like a woodcut cause I love that textured, rough look.

GO. SKI. ENJOY.:)

Hola Pipi!

I did this a while ago when I was having trouble with the colors. I finally figured it out, so I hope you like it!

Merry Christmas to All

Every year, my sister and I design our family's Chritsmas card and a stamp to go on it. This year it was my turn to design the stamp so HERE IT IS!. Finally I got to post something new! Hope you like it!

At Home

not my feet
This is my dad watching tv. He just discovered the neck pillow and its his new best friend.

a few days at the zoo

fact: the giraffe is the tallest living animal


i really liked drawing in the mouse house.



there wasnt a panda at the bronx zoo , but i have a widget on my mac called panda cam, so i watched him on there and drew from that. Yep ! I'm a nerd!
so... I visited the Bronx zoo a few times since my last post...

this is what I do at work

I got a temp job working with a photographer. I do alot of stapling. Did I mention I'm still looking for a full time job?

sketches

I've been going to alumni drawing sessions at FIT. These are my sketches from this weeks class. I started using pen and ink again...

more to come

I've had ALOT going on lately... along with other things, a BIG move...so as soon as I get everything unpacked and properly set up (my scanner) I'll put up some new work. I promise!

Illustration Friday: Poem

Shakespeare was one of the greatest poets ever, so I wanted to illustrate part of Macbeth. I love the three witches and their chant is so creepy!

T-shirt designs

I've been playing with the idea of making t-shirts. These are some ideas. They would mostly be for young girls.

Work from Italy!

in the b&b in Chisano, Rome.
Galileo at the Ufizzi
the Arno River
our classroom at the Polymoda!
I just got back from a great trip with Prof. Sal Catalano in Florence, Italy! Here are a few sketches from my book.

lots of new stuff!

Its been a while since I last updated so here's some of the work I've done. enjoy!

For this project, I worked with Brian Ajhar, an amazing editorial and children's book illustrator! I recently went back into it and spruced it up a bit.


i created the artwork to go along with an article about a museum placing dinos with adam and eve.
this is the layout using quark

Earth Day Resource Guide project for the cover illustration...



This one was displayed in the anual senior show at FIT. Its a spread from a book I'm working on called Mama Pig!

Your Evil Twin

This is a moch cover for a book on identity theft.

Portraits

Commissioned portraits in Oil

Sketches and Life Drawings

These are a few drawings I had in my sketch book from a while back. Enjoy!

I did these in class. Thought I'd put them up...

This model is the most fun to draw.
St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Tancredi

Cover illustration for a short story called Tancredi.

Dessert magazine

I reworked this one. Adding text and a few new elements made a big difference!

Christmas card

This is the design I came up with for our annual christmas card.