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read my profile sign my guestbook Name: Elisa Gender: Female Occupation: Freelance Illustrator/Animator Industry: Arts Message: message meEmail: email me Website: visit my website Member Since: 1/19/2005

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Monday, June 29, 2009

"The Girl With No Coat"

I colored this image start to finish on Friday, I love it when I can finish coloring a piece in one day. Some techniques and styles take longer than others. This one is created all in photoshop, and it goes a little quicker for me like that, vs when I start out in a vector program.

Does anybody have any tips on working faster or more efficiently? That's always something I'm trying to improve upon :)

Sometimes I do color comps first, but usually, like on this piece, I just kind of wing it.

This illustration is about a girl who gives away her purple coat to a classmate who had no coat.

(Thanks Brandon!)

12:08 PM - 9 views - add eprops - add comments - email it

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Women of the Second Michigan Infantry

This is a 2 page spread for a story titled Women in the Second Michigan Infantry, and it depicts a Civil War field nurse. Apparently the field nurses didn't wear any special aprons or hats like the hospital nurses did. The open space to the left of the image is for the title and intro text. This was another fast turnaround project for me, I'm glad the art director was happy with the result!

It's kind of a sad illustration, anything war related paints a pretty sad picture in my head.

11:26 AM - 15 views - 2 eprops - 2 comments - email it

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Esther Covers

These are some covers I finished recently for a magazine client of mine, Shine Brightly. They are covers for a series of workbooks for tween girls, using Esther as a role model.
Esther was a Jewish Queen of the Ancient Persian Empire. Read more about Esther HERE

Here's a peek once again into my process. After doing a fair amount of research on Esther and Ancient Persia I came up with these rough thumbnails to give my client an idea of the direction I was thinking of heading. They wanted portrait style illustrations depicting some of the main subjects that the workbooks will cover.

Once my thumbnails were approved I created these tighter sketches for the client before moving on to the finals.

I actually did some color mock ups for myself for these to pin down my color palettes before moving on to my finals. I don't always do that, but in this case they helped.

My art director was very pleased with these, however the Editor requested some major revisions after I had finished, pretty much a new younger character design for Esther. In the end, due to very tight time constraints and budget constraints they're sticking with these, but it's always a bit of a bummer when not everyone is completely happy. Hopefully the girls will like my Esther!

I'm not sure when these will go to print, but hopefully I'll get some samples to see how they look in print and with the titles on them.

4:35 PM - 16 views - 2 eprops - 2 comments - email it

Friday, June 12, 2009

"Safe for the Time Being" - Mason Proper video debut on MTV.com!

Mason Proper - New Music - More Music Videos

My brother in law, Brian Konicek's band, Mason Proper, has a music video debuting on mtv.com right now!
check it out!

Brian is the cute guitarist with glasses.
I love this song, their music is amazing.

For more Mason Proper visit: www.masonproper.com

Currently: Olly Oxen Free

11:30 AM - 33 views - 2 eprops - 2 comments - email it

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Where the magic happens...haha, so to speak

This is my cozy little studio on today's cool rainy day. Witness my new friend Le Mac.
Have I introduced you yet? How rude of me. Mac and I have been good friends for a couple months now, we're getting along REALLY well

Every once in a while I feel a little guilt at having the old pc laptop stowed away... we had a good run little sager lap top and me...

Well, I've got a healthy, borderline hefty, amount of work in front of me right now, my other desk is covered in sketch work, so I better get back to it.

Hasta luego amigos.

2:11 PM - 22 views - 2 eprops - 2 comments - email it

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