Here’s another portrait I did over the winter break:
Caryn & Mike Nelson run Junior’s Roasted Coffee, and you can see this portrait on their about page. My husband and I have been drinking their coffee for the past few weekends, and it’s super delicious!
I did a number of (people) portraits in December! Please enjoy, and keep an eye out for a new drawing project I will start posting next week.
First up, a collage-type poster for my friend Melanie, who commissioned the piece as a Christmas gift for her (new!) husband. They went to London on their honeymoon, so I got to cobble together a bunch of different landmarks.
I was also commissioned to draw some portraits of my cousins (thanks, Mom!). They went over quite well on Christmas day.
My Etsy shop is now set up for custom-drawn pet portraits! You can check it out here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/keefeling
Below is a portrait of my brother-in-law’s dog, Franny. I drew it as a Christmas gift for him and loved the process, so I hope to take on some new commissions soon.
Here’s a selection of Christmas cards I drew up for friends and family last year:
Some of these designs should be available for the 2016 holiday season. In the meantime, I’m available to design & illustrate greeting cards, posters, and anything else you can dream up!
It’s become a habit for me to make birthday cards for my immediate family (you can see a handful of cards from past years here). Each year the cards get weirder and weirder since I don’t want to illustrate the same thing over and over again. This year was no exception.
First, for my fashionable sister, a card featuring everyone’s favorite controversial elderly German: Karl Lagerfeld. The way he half-heartedly throws neon rainbow confetti gets me every time I look at this.
For my EDM-obsessed brother, a card featuring the disembodied head of Dillon Francis (since the pillow featuring his face was unavailable when I looked). His 2014 album is titled Money Sucks, Friends Rule, so it wasn’t difficult to come up with card copy.
Now I want to make a line of snarky greeting cards featuring doodles of fashion designers. And also use my neon colored pencils more often.
I drew a line art version of Dan and I for our wedding booklet profiles. Here we are in glorious color!
My first post for Illustration Friday! The prompt for this week is “heart,” so I drew the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz.
It’s high time I got back into illustrating with graphite. Missed you, pencils!
One of my colleagues from Ooligan Press requested a color portrait for her website, and I was more than happy to oblige! (It was especially fun to draw a tiny Webster’s Dictionary and Chicago Manual of Style.)
Bess has a crazy amount of comics knowledge and is a super editor. She’s also an acquisitions co-manager for Ooligan Press this year, so she’s an all around awesome person.
If you’d like a portrait of your own, I’m available for commissions. Just drop me a line!
It’s been some time since I’ve worked on a children’s book idea, so today my goal is to draft a story for this proper gentleman:
He was a character I created for another writer’s manuscript in my children’s book publishing course, and I really enjoyed drawing him. It’s likely he’ll evolve a great deal over the drafting and revision processes, but I’m looking forward to writing a story around a character. Should be fun!
Here are a few more images of him from the dummy children’s book I created:
With a face like that, wacky hijinks are sure to ensue.
Erika Schnatz 