I love making portraits.
Here are some sweet ones I’ve made recently.
I love making portraits.
Here are some sweet ones I’ve made recently.
I’ve written a middle grade fantasy novel called The Restoration Codex, and now I’m doing illustrations to go along with it!
This is a character named Marden. He’s a cocky, humorous curl-crested aracari.
I’ve written a middle grade fantasy novel called The Restoration Codex, and now I’m doing illustrations to go along with it!
This is a character named Rengi. She’s a sassy, grey fox, and I love her.
I plan on illustrating many of the other characters from the book, especially the animal ones.
I made this illustration to support one of my good friends who just finished writing a middle grade novel about young superheroes! I can’t wait to see it go places. 🙂
These are her main characters.
I was just looking through my art and feeling really nostalgic for the characters in my comics. I haven’t worked on my comics in ages. That makes me pretty sad… These illustrations are between one and two years old.
Here are some more portraits in my “Faces of Friendship” series. The featured friends are “The Charismatic,” “The Cat,” and “The Dog.”
Everyone has little distinguishing quirks, the things that set them apart from others and makes their appearance unique. A lot of the time, these are the things we dislike about ourselves. I’m talking about things like, “My thighs are really big.” “I have too many freckles.” “My hair looks really poofy no matter what I do.”
But I think these qualities are what make each of us interesting, and even beautiful.
I decided to make a list of some of my features that I’m sometimes insecure about, but that make me who I am. Here’s the image, with an explanation below.
1. Too tall for personality?
Sometimes I feel like my body is bigger than my personality. As in, I’m a timid person. I don’t like being taller than others. I sometimes wish I could shrink to be no taller than whomever I’m talking to.
2. Smiles when nervous or embarrassed (which is a lot)
Just a funny quirk I have. I smile a lot, but sometimes it’s just because I don’t know what else to do.
3. Eyes are both blue and gold
I consider my eyes blue, but I have this cool ring of gold in the center around my pupils. I actually like this quirk a lot.
4. Incurable hair wings
My hair flips up weird at the sides unless it’s really short or too long. These “hair wings” are incurable. (Well, unless I were to try and straighten my hair, or do pretty much anything with it. But it’s not like THAT’S gonna happen.)
5. Mole on face (Is it more flattering to call it an angel kiss?)
It’s pretty hard to ignore this mole, freckle, or whatever you want to call it. I’ve had it ever since I was a kid. Someone (maybe my mom) once referred to it as an angel kiss, which made me fee a little better about it.
6. Long slender fingers (Good for making art?)
It probably doesn’t improve most of my art (though it could help with the times I’ve worked with clay), but I do like my fingers. My hands look graceful, so that’s nice.
7. Fashion based on comfort, not style
I wear cheap clothes. There are just so many things I want to buy before clothing. There is a certain style that I really, really admire, but I have never worn it in my life. Maybe someday? (Or, knowing me, maybe not.)
8. Big, clumsy hips
I blame it on my hips (my big, child-bearing hips, as my brothers used to tease me as a teenager), but whatever it is, I am sometimes really clumsy. I randomly crash into things like tables, chairs, and door-frames, which always surprises me and often leaves me with bruises.
In my illustration series called “The Faces of Friendship,” I focus on both the good AND bad kinds of friends we can have. Here’s the kind of friend I hope we all can avoid.
A while back, I was working on Nature spirits for a personal project. In the end, I created about 60 of them, and they are all beautiful. I forgot to show them off when I finished them over the summer, so here are a few of them now.
Here are all of them together.
Ahhh, I’ve missed you, Llyren! <3
I’ve been trying to make some art for my book lately. Here’s a little something I was able to create. It’s one of my main characters from Dreams Enfolding. Just some sketches.