Your Style, Yorscarf

New illustration for a blog post on the new Providence-based scarf company, Yorscarf. Below are some photos from the shoot as well.

A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Interior Illustrations

Happy pub day to Brent Plate's A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects! The book features my cover design but also a few interior illustrations that I created. 

Hope's Heroes: New England Organ Bank

Over the summer and fall I collaborated with the New England Organ Bank to illustrate a graphic novel and children's book to help educate children on tissue donation. The resulting books are meant to help children coping with the loss of a loved one who donated tissue to help save a life. It was great to work with the New England Organ Bank and help contribute to a great cause. Below are a few pages from the final graphic novel, titled Hope's Heroes.

Interior Illustrations: Sex Workers' Rights

I created some interior illustrations for the book Sex Workers Unite by Melinda Chateauvert. The book is out today! The illustrations are of different buttons that help promote sex workers' rights.

Love the Leather: Fashion Illustration

A small image featured on my other blog illustrating the work of Meg Erickson Bags.

Beacon Doodles

As a goodbye present for a colleague I made her a Beacon super hero! Check is out on her blog as well!

Rebel Rebel

New illustration for sale on my Etsy and also part of a post on my other blog.

Color, Lace, Fishtail Braids

I have a new post up on A Boston Blazer, exploring the Esplanade in Boston. The colors for this shoot were absolutely beautiful and it was fun to do a quick painting of one of the shots. 

A Place in the Sun

I recently did some quick illustrations for A Place in the Sun Foundation. The illustrations were for a children's workbook. Here is a picture I created illustrating "circle time," one of the daily activities for the kids. I created the illustration by drawing the line and color separately and combining the layers in Photoshop. I really like the off-register look of this technique and want to experiment more with it in the future!

New Illustrations on Etsy

I created these two fashion illustrations, which are now on my Etsy site. The illustrations are for an upcoming post on A Boston Blazer discussing one of my favorite classic patterns (stripesss). Stay tuned for the upcoming post!

New Illustrations and Etsy Shop!

It has been a busy month and a half since I last posted. I recently launched an Etsy shop selling fashion inspired illustrations. I'm selling prints, original pieces, and custom paintings. Lots of different options to match a wide variety of price points! Check is out here! Now through Monday, April 29th I'm having a 10% off sale to celebrate the opening. Just use the code SPRINGTIME2013 at checkout to redeem the savings!

Here are some new pieces that are being sold on my Etsy:

Skyfall

I drew this recently for a birthday present. The drawing is inspired by the most recent Bond movie, Skyfall. It was fun to work with a different color palette from my usual work. I think I will have to experiment more with blues in the future!

Another Christmas present

My dad can be tough to buy presents for. It seems that everything he wants he just goes and buys for himself! This year I decided to surprise him with a set of illustrated greeting cards that he could use for his work. My dad works for Kennesaw State University and their mascot is an owl-hence the subject of this drawing.

Christmas Presents

I drew this portrait this past holiday season as a commissioned Christmas present. I have a better scan, which I will post at some point. For now this is a photo I was sent by the client.

Sketchbook

I have a bunch of really tacky jewelry that I love. So one stormy day I decided to start sketching it. More to come another day...

Personal Work

Sketches

Here are some sketches I created while brainstorming the cover for Tweet Land of Liberty.

Tweet Land of Liberty

It's my birthday! 

Incidentally, it is also the release date of Tweet Land of Liberty by Elinor Lipman. I had the chance to do a little illustration for this book cover. The book is a selection of rhyming tweets that chronicle the 2012 election season. 

Coffee Shop Reading

Here is a quick illustrated banner I made to help promote the release of The Land Grabbers.

Sketchbook

I drew this a while ago when I was brainstorming ideas for the cover of Outlaw Marriages (http://www.gabiandersonstudio.blogspot.com/2012/04/outlaw-marriages-book-cover-design.html). This is a sketch of Greta Garbo and Mercedes De Acosta, one of the couples profiled in the book.