Update

Hi guys, there is not much going on with me. I will have an update to post next week to the private side---still can't share the alien book. I haven't been around much because I have been swamped with creating a digital stamp store where I sell digital line art for crafters and stampers. I also was asked to work on a self-publishing book and I need some suggestions with handling that. I will be back next week to give a better update with pictures. :)

I hope everyone is ready for summer....I am very happy school is over. :)

My Book has been delivered

How sweet it is. My first self published book is finally here. What an adventure it has been so far and I'm only getting started. Now I have to market and sell this book which is a whole new learning curve for me to deal with. I posted a commercial for it on You Tube [LINK] if you want to see what the book is all about.

Another good thing happened. A lot of work came in this month, which was a huge relief. I had my worst year ever last year and I know that I'm not alone. It was a hard year for every industry.

Lloyd and Bees

So this is part of what I've been working on.  Sadly it's not all as interesting as this - as I've picked up some really mind numbing freelance...

But I'm still working with a writer to pitch a couple of shows to Nickelodeon and other cartoon networks.  This was just a doodle that turned into an Illustration Friday drawing and then I felt like I had to finish it up - and it contains a character from the show I'm working on pitching, so I felt like it sort of counts as working towards that goal...

Whatcha think? 

Need Suggestions

Posted some thumbnails for book project in secret blog.  Please take a look and give a quick feedback.  It will help SO much! 

I see it's been kind of slow, and that's fine.  I'm happy to see everyone having projects or if you're like me, a lot of family events going on.  April and May always seem to be VERY busy times of the year.  I truly hope everyone is doing well and filled with joy.

God bless,
sara

new kid praying

So I took your suggestions and changed it to night - I also changed the character into a boy (but only because I had already done the other one with a girl...and changing it to a boy makes it a completely different illustration that I can submit to the stock image sites).  I also took care of the knee problem by blocking it's view with a bed.  Anyway this is a more traditional illustration of a child praying...and it was done in Adobe Illustrator.  It's taking forever to finish though as I can't seem to draw it without effects that keep getting messed up when I resave it as an illustrator 8 file (I use cs3 and the stock illustration sites all require 8 eps files).  So it's been uploaded to two sites (which accept Illustrator 10 files) and I have to redraw the light and sky and the highlights on the boy if I want to submit it to any other site.  Not that you need to know any of that, but I thought I'd share.

Concurrently I'm retooling the pitch I did for Nickelodeon (as it was turned down last month).  I've picked up a pitch partner who's a script coordinator on the show I work on and she's even written an episode of Fairly Odd Parents.  I never thought I'd be spending my time trying to pitch a tv show (because it's so incredibly hard to get it on air), but I figured that I could at least use the story ideas and drawing concepts to make a children's book.  But we'll see...

EDIT:  Here it is again - with a bit of a change from the outer space window...

all the blends have been changed to gradients because when they're back saved to illustrator 8 eps, all the blends freak out and turn into 25 or so color shapes and make the drawing look sloppy.  And the light in the sky was originally a 'lens flair' gradient that, when back saved, turned into a series of bitmaps.  So it was changed to just a simple gradient...and now, thanks to Steve's suggestion, the gradient goes to blue, not black...and the stars stop at some point.  I should have added trees or something, but I was having such problems with this illustration that i thought it was fine enough without it.

Me drawing a bug

I just posted a really short video of me drawing a bug on You Tube. I hope to start doing more of these types of videos. [LINK]

Glitch in Blogger?

I am not sure if anyone else is experiencing this but I wanted to mention in case someone did. I commented recently on Issac's pink angel and later I saw that the post was deleted. It was strange since I did not delete it myself. Is the comment box giving you problems also?