Downshifting by a tiny vegetable garden

Here's a recent illustration I did for a short story that was about downshifting. Maybe it's the summer time that got me to use a vegetable garden as a symbol for slowing down and taking easy. The office costume may now serve as a scarecrow. Happy slow summer!

Failed rhino head illustration

Sometimes it's good to read scripts a bit more carefully. Here's a rhino head illustration that I just finished for a book project. I was quite happy with it... only the text is about a cute baby rhino... which this one obviously isn't. So, I'm about to get familiar with Photoshop's "baby-lizing-filter".

Oh, this is my blog post number 100 by the way. Should there be a party for that kind of things?

Sketch of a desert shepherd

A quick sketch for an ongoing project. I'm doing a lot of tiny spot illustrations for a map of Africa. I visited Sahara some 13 years ago, but I don't recall seeing any shepherds. Thanks to Google image search I had at least some references to lean on.

A mental mindset of development

Just finished an editorial illustration. I tried to visualize a mental mindset of development. This time I decided to do without Pegasos and other mythic creatures.

Teenagers cleaning up the house

Lately I've been working on teenager characters for a project that started already two years ago. As I'm not able to post the new ones until they are published, here's a sample from last year's set - teens cleaning up the house. The biggest fun is to clean Ming Dynasty vases.