Name Change

I've very excited to post that I've recently changed the name of my Design and Illustration business to Aileen Designs. You can check out my new and awesome website Aileen Designs which contains updated portfolios and features much more of my artwork!

My website was a true collaboration with Al Frazza, the owner of Premier Web Specialists. He truly captured the spirit and essence of what I want to convey with Aileen Designs (fun, color, energy etc.). If you are an artist, or any business owner for that matter, I highly recommend Premier Web Specialists for their creative, unique and client focused web design services. I don't think you will find a more collaborative web design company than Premier. If you want to talk to me about my experience with Premier, email me at aileen@aileendesigns.com. I'd be happy to share my experience.

New Work

Working on some black and white spots (aka line art) for a client. For someone who loves color, rendering images in black and white creates a whole new set of challenges. How to draw detail without too much detail, how to render textures, depth etc. I recommend it to anyone who wants to challenge their drawing skills, cuz it sure has challenged mine!

Premier Web Specialists

Al Frazza, owner of what was formally known as Page 17 Design, just revamped and renamed his growing web design and search optimization business to Premier Webs Specialists. I was lucky enough to create his logo.

I really recommend his company to anyone looking for a website. Not only is he very talented, he and his team offer a full suite of services. You can check out his new site www.premierwebspecialists.com

Illustration Friday - Giant

Here's my submission for this week. I kinda like it. I was inspired by "Jack and the bean stalk". I remember loving that story when I was little. I spent many hours thinking about what a giants house would have in it and how cool it would be to have the bean stalk in my back yard!

IF Satellite

This week I decided to hand render the IF topic. I had a vision of these aliens in my head and had to get them out. Not my best work, but it was fun. Again I was tight for time but wanted to get this done. IF is a great way to keep drawing and add pieces to your portfolio!

Illustration Fridy - Paisley

Ran out of time on this sucker, not quite what I wanted but I got it done. It's funny how many illustrators did pictures of girls/women with paisley. HAPPY FRIDAY!!! The name if this one is "Crazy Paisley Patty"

Illustration Friday - Ripple

This weeks "Illustration Friday" is about helping the Golf Coast clean-up effort. In addition to the Illustration Friday blog, we are all posting our pictures on ripplesketches.blogspot.com and for $10 you can buy them.

The best part is, 100% of the $10 is being donated to the clean-up efforts. We are putting our talent where it's needed and it feels great!

Although my picture may not represent the creatures that are impacted by the oil spill, they do represent the undersea world that we have a tendency to forget about. We all can do our part to help the environment and the folks who earn their living around the Gulf Coast. Please check out ripplesketches today and buy some art! It's all good!