Frankenmuth Oktoberfest poster

These are a few concept sketches for a festival poster on the Frankenmuth Oktoberfest in Frankenmuth, Michigan. The festival, being an Oktoberfest, focuses on traditional German heritage, including Hofbrauhaus beer, traditional German cuisine, dancing, music, and wiener dog races! The wiener dogs were my driving force for two of the three illustrations as you can see.  I ultimately decided upon talking to my other classmates that I will focus on refining the third illustration, which I will also be posting here soon!

Self Portrait Under Painting

This is an underpainting I did for my Model Painting Class. We had to do a self portrait while doing an in class painting with the same characteristics. This was done in oil.

Colonial Squid

This little sketch has quite a funny backstory. For the longest time my boyfriend has been asking me to illustrate for him a colossal squid attacking a city... Like I usually do, I put it off until one day he asked me about it and finally said "Fine, just draw some... colonial squid or something". Being the person I am, THIS was what I actually decided to focus on. Needless to say, I finished it, and it made out to be a nice, quirky Christmas gift that we both loved!

Old man sketch

This is a quick little sketch I did in my free time over winter break. Just an old man in an old leather jacket.