Low German Ministries Pt. 1

Last year I was asked to illustrate a book that Helen Funk had wrote for low german kids.

Here's a little interview I did about what motivates me. 

Cartoons helping The Word come to life from FLN on Vimeo.

Also, fyi: I have gotten a haircut since. yeesh...

2012 Year end drawing

I knew this year had to top last years epic movie poster. How could I achieve this?

Well earlier in the year I began drawing the kids, opposed to an animal that represented their favorite things... so naturally I had to draw them as a class. I've been realy focusing on poses, as I will admit, up until recently has been fairly week. I've learned to really rough out my drawings with circle and lines  to get the general feel for it, instead of just going straight for the outlines. 

So here first, in blue is my original poses. They have very little detail, because the point was to capture their pose. I was pleased with how freeing this step was...

Next, I could place the outlines with confidence. Here are the final outlines of each character.  In my humble opinion, I think they look much more accurate and fun than my previous renditions of the kids.

And... Here is the final. Color and shaded:

In addition to their poster that they recieved, I also designed neat little  bookmarks, which also look great together in a set. Each bookmark is colored with their favorite color(as I remember... they may have changed it since...).

Birthday Drawings (2011/2012) Pt. 2

Favorite color: pink + lime green

Favorite Animal: Dolphin

Favorite Activity: Baking

Favorite color: pink 

Favorite Animal: Puppy

Favorite Activity: Star wars (...?)

Arthur was crazy about Mario Bros! that was until about a week before I drew this... haha I found out 10 mins before I gave him the drawing. I think he liked it, but his mom went crazy for it

Favorite color: N/A

Favorite Animal: N/A

Favorite Activity: N/A

Birthday Drawings (2011/2012) Pt. 1

To make up for the lack of updates in the last week, I'll post a few drawings from the past year:

Favorite Color: blue

Favorite animal: Kitten

Favorite activity: Skating

Favorite Color: Yellow

Favorite Animal: Ring-tailed lemur

Favorite activity: climbing

2011 Year end drawing

So about this time in 2011, I made a poster to mark the end of a great first year with the Grade 3 kids.
As you may have seen from one of my previous posts, I had drawn a certain animal character to represent each kid for that year. I wanted to bring them all back with a big bang... literally.

I continued to teach this group of kids up until last week. I have a year end poster for this year, which I will post later this week.