Sutherland KIDS

This is a banner I created for the childrens program at Sutherland Church.  I had free reign over what to illustrate, and i've enjoyed birch trees lately, so TaDaaa!!

Birds and Birches

This was a print i made to sell at Emily Carr's student art sale. I'm happy to say they all sold :)

 

A website FINALLY

These past couple years I've been working hard,
building my portfolio and now I can finally showcase my illustrations! Take a look at my new website at : www.jorivanderlinde.com

North American Predators

This is a collection of North American predators.  A grizzly bear, a wolf, and a great horned owl. 

All done in ink on 11x 14 paper.  These will be available as prints at the Emily Carr student art sale on friday!

 

Owl Deer's and Lady Lemur's also enjoy tea

I'm not quite sure what this first guy is, but he likes his tea...

 

As does this lady lemur...

Postcard Mailer

 

So this took forever, but well worth it.  Another solid piece to add to my portfolio and LOOK at all that color and texture mmmmm:) This is for my proffessional practice class, and the project was to design a postcard to send to publishers and such.  It isnt due for a week or so, so i'm still doing a couple touchups on it.  If you see any thing that needs changing, in terms of color, please tell me haha.

 

pencil, ink, photoshop. I'd say about 5 full days of my life.



 

 

And some close-ups...

 

 

 

 

Hmm I wasnt pleased with the colors of the other one, so here is an update:)

 

Rabbit holes

So just for fun, i've wanted do a bunch of these guys lately:)

I'M BACK

YAYYYY.  First of all, sorry for my obvious lack of posting art over the summer, but I'm finally back!! I spent my summer doing nothing but landscaping, which i enjoyed, but takes up ALL of your energy.  But its fall now, so look forward to lots of illustrations.  STARTIIING off with this blue creature/fox/skunk i created a couple years back, but has a appeared to wish you all a Happy Fall!

Raccoon Story

Final Project for children's book illustration YAYYY!  Create 5 pages for a book, and we get to pick the idea.  So, Basically, a true story about my dad as a boy, walking home through the woods one day, and seeing a baby raccoon, takes it home, naming it Oboe, and how it lived with them:)  I also made up some Rhymes for select pages, so Enjoy!

Also, FYI, these are not in order ;)

The boy lifted Oboe

To show to his mom

And hoped beyond hope

That she would stay calm

As the figure climbed out

The boy lost his fear

For a curious baby 

Raccoon had appeared

 

On hot summer days

Oboe played in his pool

And swam circles for hours

Until he felt cool

Girl, Flowers, Birds.

I love it when a chance comes up for me to do detailed line art.  Its time-consuming, repetitive, and incredibly rewarding. For my decorative illustration final, we had to create an extremely detailed piece that would be transformed into a macbook cover.  I spent roughly 12 hours on this over 2 weeks.  Last night i slept 1.5 hours in the attempt to finish it for this mornings class.  I am really pleased with it. However, as much as I love the black and white, i am interesting in testing out colors too!! Sooo keep posted for color tests;)

Dedicated to all you Bird and Flower Lovers;) Happy Spring!!

Speed Painting Final

Tonight I did my illustration IN-CLASS final, 2 hour digital speed painting!! My first digital painting. WOAW!! It was alot of fun though:) My concept was a girl on the run in a forest chasing something or what not...

Phobias

Alright so i debated not putting these up, cause i feel like it was the least successful project i did this semester, except for the second card. Anyway, basically phobias. in order: fear of going to bed, fear of large bees, the fear that a duck somewhere is watching you, the fear of toads, and the fear of the ugly.  Believe it or not, people in my class didn't understand that a shaved, dyed-pink dog was ugly... is it just me??

SELECT pages from my last project.

I wasn't sold on the last pages I did for my Children's book illustration Class.  However I did like the inks, and colors for two pages... Cause I think they are so GOSH DARN CUTE!

MONSTERBET

Woooo , so three days later, I'm finished creating my own alphabet comprised of little monsters, most of them turned out cute... I can't help but put smiles on alot of them!!!

Materials: Ink pen. old school.

Working Working

I thought I'd upload some photos from working on howls moving castle.  And my Digital work space haha!! Yes, i have three monitors, well technically I only own the Macbook, but whateves...

There is one screen for reference photos, one for working, and one for watching COMMUNITY, obviously...

BEER LABEL!!!

Yes I am creating a beer label for my Digital Illustration class. (Don't tell my mother!! ..only select few of you will understand that joke, so lets keep it at that..) Its called J-Bird Ale. Yes, i named it after myself. Here are the Roughs. This is going to be done in illustrator after, and i haven't ever used that program, so i hope it turns out okay:P

MONSTER - BET

ABC monster-themed alphabet for Decorative Illustration. This is my basic template, but I still need to work on some color layout options:)

Howls Moving Castle Cover

So here is my final book cover, front and back covers, for Howls moving castle.  This is kinda my interpretation, but it still looks a little similar to the movie.  I am decently happy with it lol. Probably cause i used like a bagillion textures:) mmmmm:) The second one has text, for the fun of it:)