Dear Readers, Viewers, and Assorted Bots,
Starting Jan. 1, 2016, I will no longer update my illustration blog at this URL.
Please visit and follow me at 👉http://elizastein.com/blog👈 to see my latest illustrations and works in progress.
Thank you so much to everyone who has followed me, commented, and liked my posts over the last five years!!! I’ll keep a link to this old blog on my portfolio site, under “Blog (2009-15).”
Have a Happy New Year and see you all soon 🙂
When I get the chance, I like to redo older artwork. Usually I change the colors; sometimes I change or get rid of one little thing that’s been bothering me, like this necklace. This portrait was already available as a print in both my Etsy and Society6 shops, so I’ve updated both listings to reflect the change.
I decided to keep a running log here of all my Inktober sketches, for posterity’s sake and for those who aren’t following me on Twitter… yet. There is no set theme to follow for Inktober, as long as your drawings are all in ink. At first I wanted to stick to a Loteria/Mexican bingo theme, because I’m already developing a deck and I thought this would spur me to do it faster, but as you will see, I’ve already abandoned my theme by day three or four.
I’m afraid to count the number of layers I needed for both versions of this drawing! Lately I’ve been using mostly flat color for my illustrations, but I’m trying to bring back more interesting textures and collage. And thanks to illustrator Kyle T. Webster’s digital watercolor brushes, I may never use my “real” ones again. Check em out here.
Hey there! It’s been a little while since I’ve shared anything new here, and that’s because I took most of August “off” to collect new ideas, to step away from the computer and draw exclusively by hand again. I participated in the 21-Day Drawing Challenge created by graphic artist Von Glitschka and presented by Lynda.com. I found out about it a bit late, so I’m still catching up on the last few days. It was ostensibly created for beginning artists or for people who want to enrich their lives with a drawing habit, but I recommend it for artists at any skill level who find themselves in a bit of a rut.
The object of the challenge was to create a finished drawing each day, but what it really did for me was to help generate tons of ideas, and sketches that I’ve only just begun to develop. As of now, I have at least ten new drawings to ink, scan, color, and show off over the next month or so.
I did this illustration before starting the challenge, but since summer weather is still here, it remains relevant. I have it in my shop as an art print, without the lettering.
I will probably make this available as a poster before I include it in my portfolio, because it looks so different from most of the work there. I like where it’s going, though.
What a lucky coincidence that this week’s word is “Space” and I’ve been using lots of Hubble spacecraft images this month:
Credit goes to The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/NASA/STScl) for the background images.
I keep drawing sinister and/or troubled evergreen trees. (FYI- the links are to places where you can buy these as cards & prints)
Hi everyone! I developed my last post into a GIF animation. Feel free to share it with as many people as you like, as an e-card of sorts. I really missed animation and I hope to do much more of it in 2013!
