Thursday, March 31, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentine's Day!
This is a drawing my 8 year old made for her Valentine Cards.
Nothing like seeing your kids develop their own talent!
Enjoy your Valentine!
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Updated illustration for Animal Birthday Party
This is probably the 3rd rendering of this idea. It is amazing how much perspective you can gain from taking a break and coming back with a renewed and fresh view on things. I can say that 2010 was a growth year for me. I really struggled with my style. As much as I thought I had it figured out, I still felt the line weight and eyes were a bit forced and made the illustrations more stiff. Somewhere between the pencil and the inking, I was loosing the fluid feel of the drawing. My thoughts were confirmed when I had a very candid email exchange with an agent that represents very accomplished illustrators.
I have tweaked some of my past illustrations to make this small modification while keeping all the work consistent. I've gone back to working only with pencil and skipping the inking process. As of today, I am quite pleased with the work. Of course, that won't last for ever since it is only natural to keep evolving and changing as an artist.
I'll post some of the other revisions later this week.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Illustration of girl playing with dog
This is another finished illustration from last week's drawing session.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Mother holding phone and groceries. Illustration update
Here's the final digital illustration. Last week I was able to have a long drawing session. This is one of the drawings from that session that I colored in Photoshop. I'll be posting the others later this week.
Monday, January 24, 2011
From the Sketchbook
One of my 2011 goals is to draw more often. To draw anything, just for fun and without purpose. it could be a small doodle or a character, or whatever. Ideally, I would like to sketch once a day. I haven't quite been able to draw every day, but pretty close. Here's some of the sketches from last week...
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The Finished Owl and Lemmings
Here's the final piece. I'm very pleased with the mood lighting I was able to create with the sun peaking through the trees. Now let's hope this owl gets the message to the right critter!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Illustration Friday: Deja-vu and Resolutions...
here's some quick doodling from last week... as I look at these, it seems to me, I had already drawn something like this... Deja-vu!
2011 - Out with the old, in with the new! --So they say!
I took a break over the holidays and like most people, had the opportunity to reflect on my goals and direction. I thought about what my goals were at the beginning of 2010 and assessed how many of those goals I met or didn't meet and why.
As 2011 gets started and I think of what I want to accomplish this year ( I really need to clone myself!). There's so much I want to accomplish, but I need to be realistic with my time as well. I have been more aggressive in pursuing my website and graphic design business. I even started a blog in Wordpress dedicated just to that and I've had great results so far. However, my goal of entering the children's illustration market has not been forgotten and for 2011 my focus is:
- Expand my mailing list
- Send a promotional piece at least every quarter
- Update www.thomidis.com and keep it current
- Make thomidis.com more search engine friendly
- Draw every day for a month (thinking of February since it's short!)... even if I'm short on time, just a quick doodle. Not sure if time will allow me to blog about it.
- Update this blog at least once a month
Happy 2011 Everyone!
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