Visiting the past

Eve in the Garden

After visiting the Mary Blair exhibit at the Disney Family museum I was inspired to do this piece with Eve in the Garden of Eden!

Work in Progress

It's been a bit of a rough patch for me in terms of my personal art, so here's a little thing that I've been working on on and off for the past few weeks. It's definitely still a work in progress, but I thought it would be nice to share something like this with you guys!

Age Before Beauty?

I've always loved doing Pinup girls! They're so cute and they have so much personality. I took a little time over the holiday break to make these little greeting card girls. You can find them here!

The Last of my "Frozen" Art Posts

I think? If I dig up anything else I'll be sure to post it here, but for now I think this all that's left! The stragglers if you may.

One of the newest deleted scenes from "Frozen" shows the girls interacting on coronation day like sisters, In this scene I designed their "Dressing Room" which was lots of fun because it's basically a giant closet! There's still lots of Rosemaling but thinking about the architecture of this space and that huge window were probably the most fun parts 

Early on in the film there was a "Love" town, this was a concept for the interior of someone's house. It was lots of fun to think of the cheesiest saccrine valentines day themed house! Even the Doilies are made out of hearts! 

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Frozen Art DUMP!

Hey Guys!

Frozen is out in theaters so I thought that I would share with you some of the things I worked on while on the film.
I worked on it for one full year and at the time it was the longest I had ever worked on a production!
Sometimes while you're working on a film you forget about the pieces that you worked on and which ones you liked, doing this really helped to remind me of all the work I was proud of from this Movie.

New BLOG!

A little blog announcement! I'm going to be posting from the blog at our new website:

ECA BLOG!

You'll notice we went through a bit of a facelift! It's got our portfolios as well as our site and soon our blogs as well. If you want to keep up with my work, please check out the blog there where me and my husband/partner will be posting our stuff!

Also: OMG 5 WEEKS TIL COMIC CON AAHHHHHHHHHHH!

We're going to have lots of surprises for everyone! Lots of new products as well as a nifty new booth! Our location will be 1734 and we'll be posting some rad blog posts about our experiences there so make sure to keep an eye on the new blog! YAY!

Not So ORDINARY girl!

I got a chance to illustrate a series of kids books a while back and it's getting published on the 21st of this month! Here's the amazon link

Not so Ordinary Girl, Ballerina Weather Girl

Not so Ordinary Girl, Miss Matched

Not so Ordinary Girl, Don't Chicken Out!

I did the interior illustrations for only the last one, "Don't Chicken Out!" the rest were done by another artist.

Here's some of the early development work that went into creating the covers, for some reason I'm having some trouble locating the pages of the interior for book 3, but I thought that you would still like a peek into the process.

I got to read the manuscript and just come up with my own style for the character which was a lot of fun! The watercolor sketch was inspired by Vance Gerry, a Disney Story artist who had a show up in the studio when I was doing these.

007 Show at Q Pop

I got a chance to participate in the 007 Show at Q Pop this past weekend! The subject matter practically demanded sexy ladies lounging about!

I actually decided to try out a different technique when it came to doing the composition for this one, I was really inspired by Kali Ciesemier  and her use of Informal Subdivision that I decided to try it out for myself! Here's my subdivisions:

It was actually a really interesting way to work, very unnatural for me, but it really pushed me to think hard about my angles and what I was doing, I think it's a really fun exercise for any designer/illustrator!

The show is still up at Qpop too, so anyone in the downtown LA area go check out the great work! I have a few prints of this at the show as well!

Snow White Gathering Flowers

Demo from my class last week! It was a good time and our class was lovely, Time for a break! Can't wait to do it again next term!

Pretty Courtyard

Here's a little something I've been working on between things, thinking of warm days and exotic locales!

The house in the woods

Having some fun doing an environment for myself! Working on projects is great, but sometimes you just need to do some personal art to remind yourself that art is fun! I've been doing a lot of modern stuff at work so I decided I wanted more fairy tale worlds in my life.

Wonder Con Anaheim!

Mike and I are going to be attending Wonder Con Anaheim this year! I will also be doing commissions at the show! Here's an example of one that I did at Emerald City Con this past weekend!

Magic

Just a little something, inspired by witches!

Goth Girl

Random quickie doodle poop! I think she looks kinda like Emma Stone? Toats my girl crush.

Ladies of Animation

Hey guys! I'm participating in a "Ladies of Animation" Gallery show at GR works in Downtown Los Angeles. If you guys are free this Saturday please stop by and check out the great pieces by ME!
Sho Murase, Helen Mingjue Chen, Nicole Mitchell, Clio Chiang, Griselda Sastrawinata, Anna Chambers, Lorelay Bove, Claire Keane, Fawn Veerasunthorn, Brittney Lee, Kendelle Hoyer and Lissa Treiman, and Pamela Tu.

Here is one of my pieces for the show. I have about 5 pieces that will be on display. They will also have an awesome valentine card set where each artists did a piece! Come by and check it out!

GR Space
 114 W. 4th St. Los Angeles, CA 90013

Happy New Year!

A Happy 2013 to everyone! Some of my Christmas gifts were letterform books, it's my newest obsession! I decided to try playing with some hand done lettering as a little greeting for everyone.

I hope everyone's 2013 proves to be eventful! 

Star Kiss Sketch

When I do original art I like to do a quick photoshop sketch. Here's one for my newest painting that I'm working on during my lunch hours.

Lucy in the Sky

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, I found this piece that was inspired by the Beatles for a Tribute show at Gallery Nucleus. I had a really great time painting this, but it was actually really hard for me to think of what to do for the theme. I had a lot of sketches for an "Octopus' Garden" painting, but I couldn't get it to work. I was rather pleased with this result.

I'll be having a couple of these as prints at CTN Expo which starts TOMORROW! Fri-Sunday of this week 11-16.  I'm so excited to talk to people!

I also just gave a few tours of our downstairs Art of Wreck it Ralph Gallery to a bunch of students who are here early for CTN Expo, it was great to share our studio with you guys!

I'm gonna WRECK IT!

Wreck it Ralph is out in Theaters everyone! I'm so proud to have been a tiny part of this project. There was a great team and I'm so pleased with how the movie turned out and the reception it has gotten so far!

Me and a few other artists are going to be doing a book signing and panel at gallery Nucleus on Friday!  5 Dollar Admission, there are 8 artists participating so come by and get your "Art of Wreck it Ralph" Books signed!