Night time and Fireflies

I really like how this came out. My favorite part is the sky and how I did the shading. To me it is really hard to achieve the idea of "nighttime" but I think in this illustration I did pretty well. I also enjoy the fireflies. One of my favorite things about the summer is when the fireflies come out before sunset and cover the fields. It is truly a beautiful sight.

Johnnie Green; Betsy Butterfly

Here is the little boy from my newest children's book named, Johnnie Green. You can see that he enjoys catching butterflies and does not like when he has to do chores or when it is raining. I'm getting more comfortable with the tablet. I'm slowly making my tablet drawings look similar to my real drawing, at least with similar cross hatching and things like that.

Betsy Butterfly Update

I decided to revisit Betsy and I decided that I like this one A LOT more than the first try. Sometimes it's a good idea to revisit a project after working a late night on something. A fresh mind will change things for the better.

Betsy Butterfly

Here is a character from the book I am working on now named Betsy Butterfly. She makes the lady bugs and moths jealous because she is so beautiful.

Blocks Finished

Here are all of the blocks I have done. All together I think the baby shower went very well. We had a lot of family from all over come and spend the day together at my parents farm. My mom and I stayed up plenty late the night before and made many desserts. We even made a hand out cook book! I will have to post those pictures soon.

Baby Shower Photos

Here are some pictures from the baby shower. You can see some of our decorations and the mom-to-be herself, my beautiful sister, sitting with our father Jeff. :) You can also see in the last picture that we put together a recipe book for all of the guests. All of the desserts served that day were in the recipe book. It was a popular hand out.

Baby Shower

My sister, Anja, and I at her baby shower.