for Joanna

Joanna requested a picture of a carousel of course. She added the starry details.

funny creatures

thinking about little animals and their personalities

digging for ideas

thumbnail sketches for a potential book project

grinding away

random little girl character sketches

little girl, big slide

August 12, 2015
little bitty brave one loves the big slides

little entrepreneurs

August 12, 2015
inspired by some neighbor boys' lemonade stand last weekend.

tiny fashion statement

August 12, 2015
a new favorite. tiny girl in hat and boa, pushing her bear in a wagon.

August 11, 2015
rough sketches I'm not too happy with, but there they are.

August 6, 2015

August 6, 2015
girls in glasses and a butterfly girl

practice makes perfect, right?

August 5, 2015
And then I practiced hands and feet because I find them so frustrating!

not an eraser-related incident, just frustration

August 5, 2015
Thinking about book characters. I love little girls in cute dresses with Peter Pan collars and Mary Jane shoes. Poor little book-balancing girl is my favorite but I cannot get her arms right, so armless she remains.

where does inspiration end and imagination begin?

August 5, 2015
Random girl character sketches. The right one seems a bit too Seuss-inspired for some reason.

And the dog… Maurice Sendak never gets out of my head apparently.

tiny sketches

August 4, 2015
I actually really like this dog. 
And I love the concept of the tea cup girl, but obviously needs some fine-tuning.

sometimes I really dislike my sketches

…but I sketch away anyway.

man's best friend

a few dogs for the dog-days of summer or something like that.

searching for personality

study of people inspired by mid-century illustration

ladybugs

July 15, 2015
study in ladybugs

sisters

July 2, 2015
pretty much sums up their relationship right now

all about the seagull in this one

sketching for a potential chore chart and a random, yet memorable seagull from our California trip

sketch of an awesome lady on the bus

Some people are just made for sketching. When I saw this sweet woman on our crowded bus, I could not resist sketching her this afternoon. I hope I am this awesome when I am grown up.