the cat brothers under the tree

She hoped this would work.

After many attempts (unsuccessful ones I might add) to lure the elusive cat brothers out, she hoped this would be the one to get them into plain sight.

Why can't we all just be friends?

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This is a warm up illustration for the next book I am making. Whether this will be what the final illustrations look like is another story.

oh my darlingg...

for my dearest love.

the perfect match

So this is part of my preliminary work for my next project. I am probably going to be in this phase for quite a while, but here is part of what I am working on.

Character designs. Oooh-aaaah.

Creating the perfect old couple is hard work. I haven't come to a final decision yet, but I know what I am leaning towards.

How to Catch a Cat. - Part One

I have decided to start another book. It will be a while before I have anything really substantial, but it will be about cats. And a girl.

This is coming out of a drawing I did a while ago (I will post it once I have finished painting it).
Anyways it is of the three cat brothers hiding behind a tree where a girl sits pretending to sleep.

tea time

So this is what I was working on for quite a while last year. A set of illustration and designs for tea and coffee packages. I really enjoyed this project and am really happy to have an actual physical product from all this time spent. I gave away a bunch of these as presents for Christmas, and kept a set I can use for my own tea and coffee.

As it stands right now I have made labels for the following:
Coffee
Green tea
White tea
Chai
Rooibos
Earl Grey

Still thinking of making a few more kinds, as well as a tea party poster with all animals on it.
But yeah. Pretty happy with the end product and definetely want to pursue more projects like this in the new year.

Also, happy new year everyone.

a winters romance

It's finished a bit later than I wanted but... this is second winter holidays painting.

I have some paintings I want to create but winter always brings some creative depression with it. It's probably best to just work through it, but sometimes that just won't happen...

octopi are funny

... Not that this guy would know. He has nine legs.

Winter does funny things to my brain. The sooner it is gone, the happier I am.

greetings..

Oops. its been nearly a month since the last post.

Well, almost finished production of current project, everything is printed, just putting all the pieces together.

Also, have finished first holiday card. Maybe its a bit early. maybe not. Here we go anyways.

Been in sort of low spirits lately, but that isn't a very good excuse so I am going to force self to do some more painting.

More rejects

Just some more rejected sketches. It may be a little while before I post anything finished, since a lot of what I am doing right now is formatting/design and things that will be up post-christmas. Been drawing animals I have either never or rarely drawn before. Still really love this Rhino, though I decided against him in the long run.

Cat Rejects

So here are some rejected sketches and other symbols of my failures. Flipping through my sketchbook, I realized the last 6 pages are all cats. It would be a lie to say that I don't regularly draw cats (after all, cats were half of all I drew in my final year in school). But I definitely have even more of an exaggerated cat fixation as of late. It's no secret I am desperately waiting to have a pet... but still.

Anyhow, I have been neglecting the blog and website terribly and maybe even neglecting to create art. I am done at my job for the next few months SO I am hoping now to concentrate on my freelance goals and own projects. Though the big thing I want to get working on now I wont likely post until after Christmas.

Well, this isn't the most interesting post, but i hope someone at least will enjoy some terrible cat drawings.