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I'm still working on prints and patterns, trying to experiment with colors and bringing textures into illustrator. Here's one for back to school!
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My friend Gail told me about this contest. Sock it to Me in Oregon is having a global sock design competetion. They're going to take 25 designs and have people vote for them on facebook. If by some wonderful miracle I make the cut...I will be bugging all of my dear friends and any of you out there that follow me to vote on March 7th. If I don't make the cut I still had a blast designing them, and learned a lot about patterns. Here's my designs...I crammed them all into my one day off!
My new year resolutions pretty much all revolve around art...well art and the classic "i'm going to eat so much healthier" one. Unfortunately I've never met a cookie I didn't like. Mainly I want my etsy store and portfolio to evolve and grow dramatically. I'm trying to market myself for as many illustration "fields" that I can. The next few months I'll be working on getting a collection of greeting cards together, and some pattern designs...and from there I'LL TAKE OVER THE WORLD.....and maybe make some wallpaper.
Now for some color. A friend of mine commissioned me for a present to give her boyfriend this christmas. He loves superheroes....well who doesn't...but she wanted them in my quirky Arrolynness style. I had free reign....so naturally I thought about what a superhero's day off would be like. I think it involves, ice cream cones, dog walking, book reading, and flirting with the ladies.
and yes, that's batman and robin on a bicycle for two.
OK. So I have a new obsession. It's serious. It's popsicles.
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I feel so ashamed. I've failed as a blogger. Once upon a time I posted many times a week...adding new images and exciting news....well ok, somewhat interesting news...but at least I posted! So for those of you who haven't given up on me I promise to post more regularly.
Growing up my family and I would always go on summer camping trips. They are still some of my favorite memories. I wish I had a camper like this....
My friend is having an under the sea themed birthday party, SO I thought it was about time to venture down the path of mermaid illustrations. Thank you for visiting :)
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I promise I'm still here!
Things have been really busy, but sadly I don't have anything I can post. My wedding is coming up in a month and a half and I just signed on with a new book deal that's going to be 120 illustrations!! Yikes!!! I'm very excited about it and hopefully I'll be able to post things soonish. Oh wait maybe I can find a sketchbook drawing to post. In the meantime, go to ARROLYNN.COM if you haven't visited it yet. Hope everyone is enjoying their December!!
My manager at work is having another baby any day soon! I took this chance to paint something cute and smultzy.
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WHAT!??? Arrolynn is posting! I'm sorry to all three of you that follow my blog...it's been ages since I've posted anything. The things that I've been working on I'm either not allowed to show them, or they're just really boring. No one wants to see my mailing list. One thing I have been doing lately is working on prints and patterns. I'm starting to experiment with them to open the field of work. It's really exciting if you think of it....there's greeting card companies...wallpaper, stationary, clothes.. so many people need patterns! So here is my first attempt at a repetitive pattern. Oye. I really had some issues when it came to repeating the tile...but I did learn alot and I had a blast. I drew it with pen and scanned it in and then colored in photoshop, but I am also going to paint one. right now I'm just playing around... Next I'm working on one with clocks. In other news! The guys over a Drawger.com contacted me a little over a month ago with the exciting news that they're starting a new site but for up and coming illustrators. If your familiar with Drawger it's a place to showcase illustrators working today, but it's invitation only. Ohger is going to be a place for new talent that art directors and editors and whatnot can visit. It runs just like Drawger... it's by invitation or applying and it's only open to current students or recent graduates. So go check it out! I promise I'll post more.
This weekend I worked on an illustration for the Los Angeles Times. I talked to them on Thursday night, and they wanted to see sketches by the next day and a final on Monday. The article was really great. It was in the food section and it was talking about how these days organic and ethnic foods are more accessible to the public. You can walk into any grocery store and buy things from the organic section. So the sketch they went with was a field with rows of vegetables playing off of the idea of grocery isles, with people shopping between them with shopping carts. The design editor was incredibly nice and I really enjoyed working on this project!
This is for the "Waking the Giants" Ringling 100 project. It's going to be really interesting to see how it turns out. I haven't done any swirls in an illustration since thesis...so I thought I'd reminisce with this one.
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Hi Arrolynn,
Came from Print and Pattern... sucked in by your magnificent circus pattern with the bears on bikes... Oh my gosh I love love love it!
Your work is just devine, as Iv had a little look-see through your website.
My other favourite is the lots of necklaces lady in the frame!
Following now and looking forward to keeping up to date with your work!
Clare
www.foxyvictor.blogspot.com.au