Dan's Presidents

After over a year Dan has finally completed his 43-presidential-caricature-sheet. No matter how much he sped up during the last few days, the style remains the same, and he has captured their essence in the simplest forms.

The best thing about this of course is that it's educational. And that you can see every one of them in one specific style (and in colour!). Dan has also been learning more about them as he created this series. You can read his trivia on his blog here.

Personally, I like how this sheet shows the trends throughout history. Long hair, facial hair, big collars, small collars. Bow ties, regular ties...etc. And he did such an awesome job with the likeness of all of them (except for Reagan, eh Dan?).

New Gigantic Toy - Canon Pixma Pro-100!

Oh yes. A NEW toy. Silhouette Cameo wasn't enough for us. After doing research on printers for about 2 months I got this baby for about $200 this week. Woop woop! And this printer is the biggest "desktop" printer I have ever seen. It's about 27 inches wide. Just look at my phone I placed next to the box as a comparison!

 I had to rearrange our apartment just so I could fit this fat thing near our computer desk. And look at how impressive our bookshelf looks now. Most of our books are now in the bedroom - they're no longer wanted!

 This is the very impressive looking view of the ink tanks. They come with lights! It's just like Christmas!

Well, it took about a whole day to rearrange the apartment and the rest of the evening to set up the printer, so I haven't had any time to print anything out yet. But I'm just happy looking at it.

My Mum's Birthday Card

All in the new cutout style! My mum loves flowers and pink. And because I've been buying flowers for every special occasion, I thought I'd try something different this year. And boy, was it different. It took me so freakin long to complete this card.

For some reason, I decided to do this freehand. There were bits that went missing, some parts were coloured completely wrong, and the overall composition looks a little crooked. But I hope it looks good to a set of fresh eyes. And to my mum of course. And she liked it very much.

My gosh. This post looks so out of place on my blog.

Shawn's Family Portrait

Recently I got to work on a family portrait for Shawn. His wife Kelli told me they wanted a beach theme for this illustration. So I went with the Beach Boys.

Dan's Bat Mobile

My husband is so clever. He comes up with some of the funniest ideas. I swear, more than 50% of our conversations start with "Wouldn't it be funny..."
Anyway, here's his newest conversation starter:

Sketch of Our Love

I did this sketch a few months ago of our affection. Obviously we can't keep our hands off each other. "What do you wanna do?" "I dunno. What do YOU wanna do?" "I dunno. What do YOU wanna do?" "I dunno. What do YOU wanna do?"...etc

Zombook!

Remember the football zombies I created for a book last year? Well, it's published, and is finally in my possession! Mwahaha. Thanks to Allan, I was able to check out some awesome illustrations by other artists. Here is my baby on page 13!

If anybody wants to get more information, here is their website.

Duckling Cutout - Woman's Wingtip Shoe

So I finally got around to creating a cutout of my duckling shoe. When I worked on a cutout piece years ago, it was a little stressful because I never knew which part went where. But I think I figured out how to make this process a lot easier. And it was fun!

Here's a close up. Enjoy!

Hopefully I'll get to work on the other Duckling series and turn them THREE DIMENSIONAL! Dun dun dunnnnn.....