This is the cover page for the children's book that I am working on titled 'I'll Sleep Here Instead'. The book is going to be an ABC book that covers all the strange places your cat will usually sleep, instead of their bed. I will only be posting the first two pages here, but once it is finished I do have plans to get it published! The page artwork and text will be done in Photoshop and Paint Tool SAI. And the pages will be laid out in In Design once I can get a copy of the program.

This book is a daunting task with all the pages it will have, but I am really eager to get it finished so that I can attempt to publish it and sell copies! I think making this book will be a fun learning experience, and who knows, I might even decide to make more at some point! The cat that will feature as the main character in this book is colored and based around my cat Hemmie, a flame point who loves to cause me grief.

Innocent Monster

I am not a Killer

So please don't kill me

This was one of my contemporary pieces, I was partnered with Casey, and we decided on dog fighting, and the banning of pit bulls as our subject matter. In several places in the states, it is illegal to own a pitbull, simply because it is a pitbull, and in some shelters across the united states, bringing a pitbull into their shelter is a death sentence for the dig, regardless of temperament. Some places will even put down dogs that look like a pitbull, and this is completely unfair to these abandoned dogs. They did not ask to be brought into a work where not many people understand them, and they deserve love just as much as any other dog.

This piece was done in a combination of Photoshop CS5.1 and Illustrator, the silhouette I used was done in photoshop, and it was an image of a pitbull puppy. I blacked out the form using the brushes and select tool, then took it into illustrator for the final bit. In Illustrator I traced the image and filled it with text, the words 'Monster' over and over again, and then colored the text in photosop to make the eyes and broken heart, that was also where I added the large overlay text.

Word Play [WIPPAGE]

Expressive Text - Breaking Down

Ligatures - The Apothecary

Figure Ground Reversal - Meow

 

Lackadaisy

Another one I did just playing with colors and filters, using Photoshop CS 1.5 again, I like how psychedelic this looks!

Cat Vector

A cat vector I created in Adobe Illustrator! 

Illustrator is really tedious and hard, but it was fun either way!

Running in Blue

This was a cat I edited in photoshop CS1.5, I was just fiddling around with effects really!

I sold a print of this piece, and it kind of reminds me of a playing card.

Pop Art President

This was a pop art piece I did of Dr.Rideaux, using a photo I took of him with my iPad tablet, I took it into Photoshop CS1.5 and used many filters and color adjustments to make this!

Tools Used: iPad camera, Photoshop CS1.5

This one was a preliminary one I did, this is not my final, I was just getting the feel of what I wanted to do and playing around, I used the same tools as the first.

 

And this one is the layered movement piece I did, using another photo of Dr.Rideaux and the layers in Photoshop CS1.5, I put these images together with different effects and transparency levels.