Ahhhh

Holy crap! I can't believe I'm up this early! I have a new job for the summer months while waiting to start my 3rd year of Graphic Design at Cambrian College. It is a swing-shift job, which if you you don't know, means one week days and then one week nights etc... Dayshift starts at 5am! Which means I need to drag my tired butt out of bed at 4am to get dressed, make my lunch, have a coffee, check my blogs etc...

This is going to play havoc with my body. Number one I haven't actually done much "physical" work in the last couple of years, which isn't to say my job is physically demanding, but it is standing most of the day and working with lumber. I'll give it a little while and see how it goes, not sure if I'm liking it at all yet, I know the hours are killer for sure... anyhoo, I'll keep ya's posted.

Here's another piece from one of my children's books I wrote and illustrated.

Done!

Done second year that is, wow, what a rush! Second year was pretty intense. I felt like a Doctor under constant triage conditions, what gets first attention, second, third etc... I'm hoping that next year will be less strenuous since there won't be as many classes, but then I suppose we could still end up with just as much work to do. At this point though I'm looking forward to a nice long summer of work (both design and non-design jobs) and hanging out with my family doing "family" things. I'll still try and keep up with blogging though. I know it's been a week or so since my last post but in my own defense, it was pretty hectic the last couple weeks :)

p.s.
This is an illustration from the 3rd children's book I'm working on. Hopefully I'll get back to it and finish it off someday. Only problem is, that I've learned so much the last 2 years that I'd probably go back and start it all over again ;)

In the works

It's been a week or so since my last post, just wanted to put a quick update here. I'm currently working on another illustration  project for school. It's an illustrated alphabet, yup all 26 letters. I've completed the line work and put my flat colors down so far. Once I get the shadows and highlights up I'll post it for you to see. So until then, I'll leave you with an older illustration I did as a tribute to CSI

Surreal

Here's a piece I had to do for illustration class. It's a compilation of 8 different photos. I had a lot of fun putting this one together.