Ink & Fairydust: Fairy Tales!

Hello! I am proud to announce and display Ink & Fairydust Magazine (click on the link!). This issue is special to me for 2 reasons: 1) it's about fairy tales and fantasy, which are always the best topics, and 2) because, ahem, well, I illustrated the cover and one of the little fairy drawings inside. This is my first time illustrating something published, so, I am rather excited about it. I am so glad to be a part of such a fun project with such lovely people.

And, of course, we need a quote about the topic. Here is one by Mr. Lewis that I found recently:

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -C.S. Lewis

Mr. Tumnus

    Sometimes I just have to watch the beginning of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe to make things all better. I absolutely love the snow scene at the lamppost. Here is a quick sketch I did during/after watching it:

Admittedly, he is a bit baby faced.

Snow! Narnia. Christmas.

Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving!

May 9th, 2011: Illustration Friday

So I am starting something new- I am going to give a go at participating in Illustration Friday, where you doing a drawing based on the word of the week, and they post it every Friday. Now, I am not sure I will do this EVERY Friday, but it's new, and i can see it being handy on those far too frequently occurring days when I can't think of what to draw. I think it looks fun, and fun is good.

This week's word is Beginning. And so- tah dah!- I did another dragon..... I like dragons. I wanted to make the boy hobbit like, although I think his limbs turned out rather long, making him look a bit too tall for a hobbit. But I liked the way he looked, and so was too attached to erase and redo him. I had fun doing this one.

I love my dragon! And I like the boy- even if his hands are a bit big, which I just now noticed....

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
~C.S. Lewis