Editorial Attack!!

I have been trying to revamp my portfolio with some editorial pieces as that tends to be the direction I have always found myself going in the illustration world. These pieces are all inspired by various articles I have found online. Thoughts?


This first piece is based on an article by Zosia Bielski titled: Popping the question in the digital world.


The second is an article by Gordon Hamilton titled: Environment on mind for beer brewers.


This last piece is based on an article about Open marriage: Who does it, how it works and why
it doesn't by Tralee Pearce.

Online Einstein

This piece was actually inspired by an article that I read about how soon Einstein’s personal thoughts and documents will be published online. I thought it was interesting just because he will be ‘alive’ once this is published because everything about him when he was alive will be available to us. I wanted to basically illustrate that his ‘being’ will soon be the internet.

The New Coming of Winter

This is a piece I finished about a month and a half ago for a group project that is soon to be unveiled. I decided to go digital for this I am pleased with the outcome. The inspiration for the image came from this book I own called 'The Old House Book'. I was just flipping through the pages and I saw this shot of a red cabin in the winter. The rest is history.

Thoughts?

Doodlez

Just some random doodles I have been keeping busy with. If you can identify any people I went to school with, +10 points.

Happy Halloween!

Let me first start off by blowing some dust off my blog. -Ahem-

Ok, thanks.

My life has just been absolutely crazy since moving back to Ottawa and I have put a lot of my life on hold as a result. I am currently working at Bell in the internet technical support department and that's mostly where my time is going. My hours are really messed up and because of that, I am often not very inspired to do work when I get home. Luckily, it's autumn and I always get so inspired during the fall season. So finally I was able to come up with some ideas for a new piece and here it is!

I spent the entire day yesterday searching for inspiration and I finally found it. I am quite pleased with how it turned out. I think my most favorite holiday event would be Halloween, which is why it's only necessary I do an illustration inspired by it :)!

Homegirls - Nellie McClung

This is my piece for the homegirls show at Pentimento gallery. The show's theme is about Canadian women throughout history. Throughout the month of august, there will be votes designated to the the choice image to be put up as a mural on the side of the gallery.

I chose to illustrate Nellie McClung. For those who are unaware of whom she is, Nellie McClung was a activist for female rights. She was a member of the famous five and fought for the acceptance that women are persons. Among many of her accomplishments, I chose to portray the groundwork she laid out so women could vote.

If you are in Toronto, please check out the show and don't forget to vote!

Free Wallpaper!

It has been a month since my last post and I apologize for those of you who actually follow my blog! I just moved back to Ottawa so I needed to wrap everything up, didn't have a lot of time for illustration. Now that I'm home I'm going to throw myself back into my work and attempt an illustration career lol. I decided to make a free wallpaper for anyone who's interested!

I made four colour versions to give a bit of a selection.

IMPORTANT - MAKE SURE YOU TILE THE BACKGROUNG

Enjoy:

If done correctly, it will look something like this: