Eli!

Eli the sloth makes his first appearance.

I inadvertently made Eli follow the same career path as Brett from 'Flight of the Conchords'

Except Eli is a drummer. His hero is Keith Baboon, and in his teen years he listened to Slothknot.

T-shirt designs

I went back to Chicago for two weeks in September, and having a sudden surplus of free-time, I started to get back into illustrating. I created a few designs that I submitted to a children's t-shirt company. Who knows if they'll actually be used, but I really enjoyed making them! My favourite is the baby rhino, they don't yet have horns, so I used a party hat instead.

Kaleidoscope Birthday

In July, I made my mom a birthday card using a sort of kaleidoscope pattern. I only had my laptop with me at the time, no access to a scanner, so I made the shapes in Illustrator and 'cut' them out of images of coloured glass, as you would with a real kaleidoscope. Like most patterns, even a simple repeat yields some pretty interesting results.

Wallpaper Designs

Welcome to my new blog!

Last winter I did a series of children's wallpaper designs. The crane and snakeskin patterns were some preliminary African print-inspired creations. The boys playing and elephants were some of the actual wallpapers.