It has been a very busy past month for me.  I left a time consuming, creativity wasting, soul draining full time job.  With that, I have had a large chunk of added free time to my schedule.  And now, ironically, I have been working harder than I have in four years.  In addition to taking baby pictures and planning some new shoots (one coming up this weekend!), I have redirected some focus on building my illustration portfolio.  I have a lot of exciting illustration things on the horizon that I can’t announce yet, but here are some illustrations I was particularly proud of from a pitch for a children’s book I did this week.

Unfortunately (for them!), I wasn’t the final artist chosen.  BUT the good news is I had the experience of drawing these awesome pictures of a cat and dog in a minimal amount of time, and now I can share them with all of you.  Otherwise they may not have seen the light for months, and that would just be sad.

The illustrations are pretty self explanatory, but the premise of the book was a day in the life for a weiner dog (“dachshund” is SO not as fun to say) and a fat orange cat.