New idea for Personal Finance course... its been approved! Forward Momentum!

A Sensational Team

Elizabeth Wein is one of my favorite authors. I couldn't wait for her newest book to come out in the US, so I ordered a copy from the Book Depository. And then, as I tend to do, produced a piece of fanart. I haven't worked a whole lot in photoshop lately, so this was just me kind of trying to figure it out all over again. Characters of course (c) Elizabeth Wein, art (c) me.

This was an idea I had for a splash of a Personal Finance course. Unfortunately, Suzy said that piggy banks have already been done so I'll have to think of something else. I liked the picture though.

Political Heritage Splash Package. There are different sizes for everything in print/internet, so thats why theres two of each. I was kinda going for a greek pottery look, but at the same time less flat.

Its a bird.... no, its a plane... no, its...

Super insura-man and wonder-insura-woman!

(You know, I think I might have to work on those names...)

For a C.E. class, showing that insurance agents should be their clients superheroes.

Another bad idea.

Those awesome Christmas decorations you were thinking about...

...they might not be such a good idea.

I did this for my dad's C.E. class about fires.

Justice/Mercy ambigram

Well, I'm home. Did you all miss me?

To celebrate my return, an ambigram! Ambigrams are a hobby of mine which I haven't really brought online much. But I tried computerizing this one.... still in progress. Most of my ambigrams are rotational, this is the first time I tried my hand at a perceptual-shift ambigram. I'm feeling pretty meh about it, I'll still fiddle with it to see if I can make it more readable. If you see it as having the first letter as "M" and the last is "y", what do you read? What if "J" is the first letter and "e" the last?

Seems like everyone wants me designing reunion t-shirts this summer.





That is, if your sister and your uncle count as "everyone"

baby deer

I drew this baby deer for absolutely no reason at all, other than the fact that I wanted to and I thought that it would look cool. I used the same texture as I did in the Geog 250 Splash and Pangur Ban pictures. There is still a definite Secret of Kells influence here, though I think that it is also very much *me*, and heading in the direction I would like to take my artwork.

A few random pictures I made recently...

Animals


Animals I drew for dads business presentation. You'll have to ask him what they're all supposed to mean because I only vaguely remember.

Dust



Fanart for Megan Whalen Turner's A Conspiracy of Kings.

Pangur Ban



Fanart for The Secret of Kells, and I guess you could say also for the poem Pangur Ban.

The poem, grabbed from (http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/poetry/PangurBan.html), so you don't have to wonder what this picture is supposed to be about:

Pangur Ban

I and Pangur Ban, my cat,
'Tis a like task we are at;
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words I sit all night.

Better far than praise of men
'Tis to sit with book and pen;
Pangur bears me no ill will;
He, too, plies his simple skill.

'Tis a merry thing to see
At our task how glad are we,
When at home we sit and find
Entertainment to our mind.

Oftentimes a mouse will stray
Into the hero Pangur's way;
Oftentimes my keen thought set
Takes a meaning in its net.

'Gainst the wall he sets his eye
Full and fierce and sharp and sly;
'Gainst the wall of knowledge I
All my little wisdom try.

When a mouse darts from its den.
O how glad is Pangur then!
O what gladness do I prove
When I solve the doubts I love!

So in peace our tasks we ply,
Pangur Ban, my cat and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine, and he has his.

Practice every day has made
Pangur perfect in his trade ;
I get wisdom day and night,
Turning Darkness into light.'

Alice, better quality