A day late, but here’s my bimonthly blog update! This month’s Butts Collective task is “awesome childhood memory.” I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but I guarantee you it has something to do with a 4-leaf clover.
Thank goodness for Butts Collective or I wouldn’t get any art done. Need to start working on that…
So, I have no good excuse for not updating in a long time. I’m just going to leave this here for all of you…
Another Butts Collective image! Spot the butt! (I think this time around it was a little more obvious than my last image). I tried a lot more real textures this time around than I have before; it gave me quite a struggle but it wasn’t a completely fruitless endeavor, I think.
It’s worth mentioning that all/most of the textures I use I get from CGTextures. Membership is free (though the higher-res - and we’re talking HUGE res -images need a premium membership) and they have a wide selection of textures to choose from, all (mostly) royalty free!
Back to art: I gotta kick my butt in gear. Fingers cross, you’ll see a steadier stream of art pulling through here. As always, thanks for watchin’!
I’m working on a new piece and thought I’d share with you all what I’m up to. I created this image of a girl and her seashell a little over a year ago. I was (and still am, to a degree) pretty happy how it came out, but my style’s since changed. As I still like the concept, I thought: why not redo it? And that’s precisely what I’m going to do. All I have right now is the beginning sketch but I’m excited to see where this piece leads me.
ALL ABOUT BUTTS: check out the Butts Collective! It’s a collection of Illustrators (classmates and friends of mine) that get together each month to draw art with sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious butts mixed in - like Where’s Waldo, but more immature and more fun! Please have a look at what I and my fellow Illustrators have come up with this month. It’s fabuttlous!
This month’s project was inspired from a word list. How did I get to this image? Simple: duck > water > clouds > rain > puddle. I probably should have included a duck and some clouds in there, but I whipped this out in two days. (As if that’s a good excuse to not push my limits…) A better question is where’s the butt? See if you can find it. (It’s pretty subtle! Or should I say subuttle?)
Whenever I think of puddles, I think of splashing around in the rain. I love going outside to prance about in the middle of a warm summer rain. With the warm weather we’ve been having, hopefully I’ll get to do just that sometime in the near future.
Thanks for tuning in! Tune in next month for the next butt adventure: same butt place, same butt time.
This is it. This is the official beginning to my illustration career!
I’m excited and nervous. The collection of items above is everything in the self-promotional packets I’m sending off to 20 (maybe 25) children’s book publishers. The extra 5 packets might be sent off to children-friendly magazines, if I can get the contact information for them. For now, these li’l guys will be mailed off to all corners of the US with the hopes that they’ll get me in contact with some art directors.
Here we go! I hope the ride’s a good one. :)
I’m gradually preparing everything for my self promotion class here, and that includes printing my portfolio. I’m content with most of the stuff I added into it, but I had a spot for a book version of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” (a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, if you’ve never heard of it!) that I was not happy with at all. So, I scrapped it and did a new one! I’m much happier with this one, and happily enough, it took less time than I expected it to. Huzzah!
Expect pictures of my promo stuff when I get everything together. :) Happy Tumbling!
Complete! Poster for the Hilton Head International Piano Competition here in SE Georgia. I’m pretty pleased with how this came out! If anything, I love the color scheme. I’ll have to explore more of using two analogous colors with one complement in the future…
In other news, I’ve ordered business cards and promotional envelopes, and both are on the way. Next up: postcard mailers, letterhead and finishing my website!
Hey, all! Just thought I’d throw some prelim work up here. I’m currently working on a poster for the Hilton Head Piano Competition. I’ll add the final piece later this week, so please keep an eye out for it! I’m looking forward to see how this piece turns out in the end.
Hello, internet! Today, I take one big step forward into the world of self-promotion for Illustration. With this new (and daresay important) obligation to keep Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook up to date with my adventures in illustration, I hope to be more productive and keep the creative juices flowing as often as possible. Normally, I’m terrible at keeping things updated; I can only cross my fingers and make the determination to keep my nose to the grindstone.
Starting now, I aim to keep friends, family, followers and fans updated on what I’m doing with my art! (But I promise not to be obnoxious about it. I want to keep your interest, not lose it!)
Wish me luck!
PS: If you use Twitter or Facebook more often than Tumblr, please see me on Twitter at kstoneillu or on Facebook at kstoneillustration. I appreciate any traffic, so thanks!
