Old Guys

Oh man, I've been kinda busy lately. I turned in my Tug of War Illustrations and I'm hoping to get a new project soon. In the mean time, here are some homeless guys from my sketchbook.

Tug of War (Revised)

And they're tweaked. Especially the last one.

All rights reserved.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

I took a Editorial Illustration class while I was at BYU and I had a lot of fun with this particular assignment.

My classmates and I spent way too much time making lame jokes about how the Palestinians ought to make lemonade if life gives them lemons, and other such irreverent ideas.

Tug of War Sketches

I'm currently working on three illustrations for a story called Tug of War for the Core Knowledge Reading Program.

Its kinda a cute story. Turtle, who wants to be friends with Hippo and Elephant, talks them into a game of tug-of-war to prove his strength and equality with them. He tells Hippo to take one end of the vine and he wanders into the jungle to get the other end. Instead, he gives the other end to Elephant. Both Elephant and Hippo think they are tugging against Turtle, who is in fact, sitting at the middle of the vine eating his lunch and taking a nap. When he wakes up he cuts the vine, tricking Elephant and Hippo into thinking they lost the game and that Turtle is not so puny after all. Devious little Turtle.

Here are my sketches. The finals are sitting on my kitchen table, mostly done. They're due this Thursday so sometime in the next few days I'll post them. I thought it might be cool to see how I get from point A to point B.

My soon-to-be Intellectual Property Attorney husband would like to remind everyone that this is copyrighted material that can not be reproduced without my permission.

Illustrators are basically just graphic designers who know how to paint and draw. Many of them will end up working in that capacity at some point in their career just to make some money. Invitations and announcements are always in high demand, doodles and sketches... not so much.

So here are a few more useful items in my portfolio.

Two baby announcements for my beautiful nieces, Lexi and Addie.

And a valentine from Jan to Dan (I hope you don't mind, Jan!)

I really, really enjoy doing this type of thing so if you're ever in need of a wedding announcement or an Enrichment Activity invitation, let me know. I'd love to help.

Danny

In honor of his return to the states, I'm going to have a guest illustrator- my little brother, Daniel Tueller.

Danny drew this for me during Sacrament Meeting at church one Friday in Riyadh. When we were in Saudi Arabia, our family lived on the DQ or Diplomatic Quarters. It was an enclosed neighborhood where all the foreign embassies and their employees lived.

So here's a bird's eye view. Houses, embassies, parks, pools, and more. I'm sure somewhere in there my other brother Christian is on his way to the Greenhouse to buy sweets.

Conductor

This was the first lithograph I ever did (100 points to whoever knows what BAT stands for without having to Google it).

I relinquish all rights to it if my brother-in-law releases an album and wants to use it as his cover art.


Its all yours, Ryan.