Fashion doll!

I have been working on a paper doll for my fashion history class. We have to do a fashion journal for our final project, illustrating one look from each era. I chose to kill two birds and supplement my illustration portfolio by doing a series that would fit with the rest of my work. I am having a blast, but I have to admit that I may have taken on a bit too much! I have waaayyyy too much to do. Oh well. I love ones that I finished. Here are a few:

My "naked" doll. There was no way I was going to do a typical fashion illustration model. I like my girls with curves :)



A few pieces from the empire era - around the time Napoleon came to power in France. I did several more parts to this, but I love the simplicity of just the dress and poke bonnet.



The ridiculous "romantic" look. This was right with England's Queen Victoria started to reign at age 16 and her innocence inspired fashion for a while. The crazy hair style is called an "Apollo's knot".

Trip to the Zoo!

Yesterday I went to the zoo with my friend Sean to do some drawing. Unfortunately, it started to rain, so we didn't get to do as much sketching as we hoped, but I had a great time and got at least some good drawing in. I don't get many opportunities draw realistically, so this was a nice treat and a reminder of how much I love it. :)

Swans that sat still right in front of us:



YAKS! They think they're sooo cool:



Bighorn Sheep: (while I was drawing this super cute little boy toddled all around where I was sitting. I was very tempted to stop drawing the sheep and start drawing him, but I didn't know what his mom would think! So ...sheep it is :) )




Wolf: (This one is actually from a photograph. The real thing wouldn't sit still!)




Finally, here is another emotion painting from my series. The rest can be found here. Happy:

Syracuse Poster Project

The Syracuse Poster Project website is finally up! Scroll down to see my digital painting as well as other beautiful works by my friends and professors. Hooray!!!

By next week, you should be able to use the website to purchase prints of my piece to help support the program.

sketches

A few older drawings that I still love. I put up a few of these on the site as well here

erinillustrates.com is up and running!

My beautiful website is finally up and I couldn't be happier! It is so exciting and super official - it kinda seems like at this moment my career is really starting.

wow.

anyway, the address is erinillustrates.com
please visit often!

lot of love,
Erin

Blanket

Hello! I thought this piece fit this weeks topic well. The Haiku (which is missing a word) is by Syracuse Professor Arthur Flowers. The quote is supposed to read:

crystal quilts of ice
fluffy blankets of snow with
dreams that warm the soul

Enjoy!

Playing Card

King of diamonds!
Its hard to tell, but I totally used myself as the model ; )

And your bird can sing!

Illustration from one of my Fav. beatles songs!
experimenting with hand-lettering and digital collage

hooray!

Stars Under the Sea and more

experimenting with texutre in photoshop

lots of my favorite things to draw in one piece: ships, doofy horses, moons, kids, pirate-ish-ness, etc...




jungle safari!



I apologize if this offends anyone, but he really does!


Happy Hanukka!

Superman shirt

Illustrator Issues and Frankenstien!

Bejing Olympics poster

Spot illustrations for an article about Men's fear of rejection

a woman recently tried to sell her baby for $25,000.

Work in progress of my Icarus comic cover. The wings will be drawn in all sketchy-like, so imagine them in there :)

finished vehical

My new sketchbook!!

My friends and I had a sketchbook painting part!!
I made ships :)

(btw, this looks a gazillion times better in real life)

Works in Progress (do i ever finish anything?)

"Finished" Possum peice! Kinda finished anyway... pulled an all nighter to get this far!




Work in progress "vehical" piece. I like it!
Fun to paint!

A monsterous update (also, possums)

Hello everyone!

Here is my monster assignment. I really wanted to do the whole word "monster", but I only had time to do "'M' is for Mummy". However, I love the idea, so I'll probably finish it ...someday... i hope.

anyway:




The other letters were going to be:
O is for Ogre
N is for Naga
S is for Siren
T is for Troll
E is for ERIN!!!
R is for Robot

eventually i'll finish it... eventually


here is another work in progress shot of my possum peice:

























and, here is an apple that I painted in class as a digital excersize. Not really finished to the point that i'd like it, but good enough:

Jerk piece

Illustration for Jerk Magazine.
This for a really nutty story about a guy with a crazy roomate that slashed up a "burgler" with a machete. The guy got arrested too, for not opening up the door immediatly when the cops came.

This is a spot illlustration, designed for text to wrap around it.
It was really fun to do! My fav. part is the freckles on the knife guy.

Imagination updated

Plenty of Possums!

Line art and work in progress digital shot of my newest peice. I am now obsessed with digital. I started, and now I can't stop! ...Hooray!

imaginatino

Imagination WIP
My second digital painting!

Remember when a cardboard box could be anything???

please click for detail :)

Fall

hooray!

Fall to me is jumping in leaves :)