This is the front and back sides of my NEW promotional postcard that I'll be sending out for the month of April.
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By: Mike,
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By: J. E. Morris,
on 9/6/2007
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By: Chickengirl,
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By: Anette Heiberg,
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By: Mike,
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By: J. E. Morris,
on 9/6/2007
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I dug through my old papers and discovered the first greeting card designs I did. I never sold any of these first designs. But I did learn about a lot of things... like rejection letters. This lion was done before I knew about Adobe and Wacom tablets and all that good stuff. This was done with Prismacolors on drafting vellum. This was probably around 1998?
I still use drafting vellum but I've ditched the colored pencils. I could never get the colors as vibrant as I wanted with pencils. I know some artists that do amazing work with colored pencil (Paula Pertile for one) but I just don't have the patience. Now I scan in the pencil drawing (usually on vellum) and then do all the color in Photoshop. I always liked this little lion so a few years later (2004 maybe?), I repainted him in Photoshop. By the way, I did sell the Photoshop version. 
And here's an even more recent lion (2007). The colors are more muted because it's suppose to be dawn in the image. I like to think my color sense has improved over the years. I didn't spend as much time on this lion fur details but at least I did give him the proper number of toes.
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By: Chickengirl,
on 9/5/2007
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Digging around my old computer, I came across this illo back from 2003. Yes, your first question might be, "why are the people in weird colors?" And I answer, "Who knows what the heck I was thinking?" I didn't think much of it then but now looking back, its a good laugh. I had this in my portfolio! Good rule of thumb for work in the children's market: they like to see diversity but usually "normal" skin colors are preferable. Unless you are Gary Baseman. Then you can do whatever color kids you want and its still awesome.
So here is a recent piece. Finally, real skin colors! I am making a huge conscious effort to limit my color palette and pick less primary and pastel colors. Also, there are more shadows and depth than my old piece. Although I am still striving for more of that.
I've come a long way since 4 years ago!
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By: Anette Heiberg,
on 9/5/2007
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When we talked about comparing old work to new work in our blog I thought I was going to show 2 pictures made several years apart. I started looking at older work, and found out that the biggest change in my illustrations happened from 2005-2006. One of the reasons is that in 2006 I started working with acrylic paints (before that I only worked with watercolors), and I really worked on improving my portfolio for the children's market. I still like a lot of the pictures I painted in 2005, and I even like some of my really old pictures, but my style has definitely improved since then.
It's fun to see these 2 illustrations next to each other. I like that they're based on similar ideas.
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very nice, especially the page with text works very well -I hope they will get you a lot of work
Thank you Tomas! From your mouth to all those Art Directors ears! The year has started out very slow, I hope it picks up.