Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Star Wars Valentine's/ Brave Valentine's Oh My!
Happy Valentine's Day! This year, once again, I made my daughter's valentine's cards (my son only wanted store bought), she wanted characters from Pixar's Brave and I figured as long as I was going to the trouble, I'd do up some Star Wars valentine's as well -complete with duckface Yoda. So here they are large enough for you to print your own with preliminary sketches included. It was a treat to take such a fun diversion and Daughter is happy with them too. Let me know what you think, enjoy! Thanks for stopping by.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Chrsitmas Card 2010
Good morning, here are some ruffs for this year's family Christmas card...
Santa shushing a T-rex, what could be better than that? Other than the t-rex looking really lame, of course.
Better t-rex, now to fix my man, Santa.
Final line drawing...with presents! My son saw and yelled, "Santa!" 'must be doing something right.
Under painting, first pass.
Detail: in progress.
more in progress. Almost done now, would have been done if I remembered to save BEFORE my son found the off switch on the power strip to my computer. (This week's lesson: SAVE OFTEN)Almost there...almost there.
...Aaand here is the final. What do you think? The plan (at least) will be for each hard copy card to be personalized for the kids of each recipient. Want one? Do I have your address? Send me an email so I know. Merry Christmas! Thanks for stopping by!
Santa shushing a T-rex, what could be better than that? Other than the t-rex looking really lame, of course.
Better t-rex, now to fix my man, Santa.
Final line drawing...with presents! My son saw and yelled, "Santa!" 'must be doing something right.
Under painting, first pass.
Detail: in progress.
more in progress. Almost done now, would have been done if I remembered to save BEFORE my son found the off switch on the power strip to my computer. (This week's lesson: SAVE OFTEN)Almost there...almost there.
...Aaand here is the final. What do you think? The plan (at least) will be for each hard copy card to be personalized for the kids of each recipient. Want one? Do I have your address? Send me an email so I know. Merry Christmas! Thanks for stopping by!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Happy Valentine's Day
Once again, I made Valentine's cards for my daughter to pass put to her class and this year she wanted princesses. So we decided on three (it took a while - choosing just three princesses from the group is pretty difficult for a four year old) and we also agreed that the boys in her class would probably like something else so we went for super heroes. I was going to also do an old robot toy from the fifties but decided instead that Darth Vader would be an excellent addition to the group. Here they are.
I know the Batman's cape looks weird, oh well, she was happy with them.
I know the Batman's cape looks weird, oh well, she was happy with them.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Merry Christmas
Probably posted these Santa's already (too lazy to check)I Hope the holidays and the coming new year bring you good fortune, health and great happiness. Thank you all for stopping by to Sonjebasaland, see you next year!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Happy Halloween!
Did this really quick for my publisher as a joke. Have a great night of trick r treatin! Please, don't drink and drive. Click image for a larger view.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Valentine's Day
So instead of going the easy route and just popping into the grocery store and buying some valentines for Amara's preschool peers, I decided to design some for her. I wanted to make the process fun for both of us and I sat her down and asked her what kind of valentines she would like to give, explaining Valentine's Day and so on. If you have spent any time around our house lately you'd know Amara is a BIG fan of the Tinkerbell movie which came out on DVD late last year so fairies were an easy choice. Amara and I started drawing up sketches as shown below.
Keep in mind that I was dealing with the attention span of a three year old so I had to draw as fast as I could. She liked the ones in the upper right but was a little disappointed that they didn't look exactly like Tinkerbell or Silvermist but I was able to move along.
After some further deliberation and Amara changing her mind 10 more times before going back to to the fairies concept, we came up with these three fairies.
Now, not everybody likes fairies (a concept very foreign to someone who watches Tinkerbell at least once a day) so I added dinosaurs and she liked the three above. We turned to the computer and started to paint these in Photoshop.
Painting them was a blast, Amara sat on my knee and chose colors while I painted and talked about color choices and so on. As the images got more fleshed out before her eyes, she would giggle with enthusiasm. 
I had to do these quickly as she wanted paint as well. I would finish one and she would say "my turn" and grab the stylus and have a go. Below is an example of her handiwork. 
I felt the cards needed something on the back so I whipped this heart up. You would like this could be blasted out, but Amara sabotaged the process TWICE. Finally we got this nice little heart below.
We were ready to print them out. Here's an example of a pre-cut sheet. The actual cards are business card size 3.5x2".
Here they are all printed out. 
That was a lot of fun, though I really didn't have the time to do it. Amara and I both enjoyed it and honestly I have worked for worse clients. Make your own and just know it's from Amara. Happy Valentine's Day!
Keep in mind that I was dealing with the attention span of a three year old so I had to draw as fast as I could. She liked the ones in the upper right but was a little disappointed that they didn't look exactly like Tinkerbell or Silvermist but I was able to move along.
After some further deliberation and Amara changing her mind 10 more times before going back to to the fairies concept, we came up with these three fairies.
Now, not everybody likes fairies (a concept very foreign to someone who watches Tinkerbell at least once a day) so I added dinosaurs and she liked the three above. We turned to the computer and started to paint these in Photoshop.
Painting them was a blast, Amara sat on my knee and chose colors while I painted and talked about color choices and so on. As the images got more fleshed out before her eyes, she would giggle with enthusiasm. 
I had to do these quickly as she wanted paint as well. I would finish one and she would say "my turn" and grab the stylus and have a go. Below is an example of her handiwork. 
I felt the cards needed something on the back so I whipped this heart up. You would like this could be blasted out, but Amara sabotaged the process TWICE. Finally we got this nice little heart below.
We were ready to print them out. Here's an example of a pre-cut sheet. The actual cards are business card size 3.5x2".
Here they are all printed out. 
That was a lot of fun, though I really didn't have the time to do it. Amara and I both enjoyed it and honestly I have worked for worse clients. Make your own and just know it's from Amara. Happy Valentine's Day!
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