Illustrations for a stop-motion video promoting the book Happiness – The Art of Living with Peace, Confidence and Joy by Douglas A. Smith. Once the illustrations were finalized, I went into S77 Video Studio and I "drew" them again in front of a camera.
Everything – the animals and type – is rendered using a quill pen on bristol board.
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Update: This won 2 awards from the 2015 Columbus AMA AIM Awards. First place in Illustration and 2nd place in overall Design Elements Category.
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I was in the running to illustrate an Alumni Coloring Book for Miami University. I didn't have actual coloring book line art samples to show, so I didn't get the project. Here are some samples for next time!
Illustrations commissioned for Scott Binger’s 60th Birthday Celebration. Creative Direction: Ricky Gonzalez. It’s a joy working with him.
I've been watching Archer - the animated spy spoof on Netflix. I love the way they animate the characters so I thought I would give it a try. Check back with this page - I'm drawing portraits of my friends and myself. Self portrait. Portrait of Hoa Pho, Designer - Illustrator; Me; Rachel Sadens, Designer - Illustrator; Marissa Hobson, Senior Designer - Illustrator. I've got great friends.
Flora and Fauna. Rendered in watercolor, pencil and gouache.
The Columbus Metropolitan Library just completed a $30 Million renovation. On opening day, the kids who explored the Kid's Area found a special treat - a little door behind a column where a Mouse Family lived. Peeking through the window they would see a mother mouse reading to her child.
The Carnegie Cafe honors the industrialist who founded more than 2,000 libraries in the USA. I drew his portrait for the logo - and tried to keep it timeless.
Proposed logo for "Books For Breakfast".
Logo for the awards certificate "I Survived the Jerry Hammond Center". During the renovation of the Main Library we were packed like sardines in a temporary office. Humor triumphed over adversity...
Thumbnails and storyboard sketches for Ohio Tourism. These were used to plan photo shoots on location at Marblehead, Mohican State Park, the Toboggan Chutes at Mill Stream, the Circleville Pumpkin Festival and the Steubenville Nutcracker Festival.
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Illustrations for past and present divisions of LBrands: Express, The Limited, Limited Too (now Tween Brands), Lane Bryant, Bath & Body Works and Victoria's Secret.
Illustrations for The Old Farmer's Almanac.
The first image is a watercolor Illustration from when I was a student at The Columbus College of Art & Design.
TV Storyboard Sketches for Fort Pitt Capital Group and WOSU, an NPR Radio Station based here in Columbus, Ohio.
Storyboards for Scotts MiracleGro.
The adventures of a deer who sniffed
Deer B Gon, and is driven to run
through some unusual scenarios.
The product is made from herbs
that deer find malodorous, yet
is inoffensive to humans.
Exploratory schematics
for Express and The Limited.
The critical details so printers and vendors
can give you an estimate how much a project
should cost.
Emoji Icons for the Photo Booth at Fashion Week Columbus. I recreated these icons in Illustrator so they could be enlarged to 15" art. They are deceptively simple looking. There is a LOT of work that goes into them.
Merchandise Graphics designed for The Limited, Express, Tween Brands, Lane Bryant and Victoria's Secret.
Remember Marker Roughs? These are pencil sketches colorized in Photoshop for Bed Bath & Beyond's monthly circulars. A very accurate representation - colors are sampled from reference photos and dropped in. The Art Director and the Client know exactly what they are getting before they go to a photoshoot.
Sample illustration for Kreber Graphics. I recreated a Bed Bath & Beyond Catalog page in the illustration style they use to provide photo direction. I wanted to learn to do the style of illustrations they using, and determine the amount of time it takes to draw each scene.
Thumbnails and storyboard sketches for Durango Boot ads.
