And New Post Cards Too

Business Card 2011 Printed

Guess what I got in the mail today! I got them printed and die cut at New Print Factory. They are also silk laminated so they have a really nice smooth feel to them.

New Business Card Design

I finished my new business card design. 

Ps. that is not my real phone number.

This is the full illustration.

Turtle Knight Art Trade

Yesterday was Richard's birthday and this is the card I gave him this year. He designed a turtle knight and a mouse page during our junior year character design class and this is my version of his characters. The Rabbit King I designed before fits into their world as well.

I colored the two characters and their branch first with markers on cold press watercolor paper. I knew I wanted the background to be less saturated so the focus would be on the characters so I painted layers of watercolor washes on hot press watercolor paper to create the hills and then did the detailing in colored pencils. The landscape is a sort of combination of the green Scottish country side and my home state of Iowa. I also exaggerated the hill the castle is on from the original drawing.