Yay!! Just received my postcards & business cards from Moo.  Can’t wait to start sending them out.

Illustration I did for the cover of “Tales From The Amazon” by Angela Jurgensen for Brighter Books. The book is set to be released in February of 2011 by Brighter Books Publishing House.

“Working with Jessica was truly a pleasure. Her professionalism blew us away. She communicates through every step of the process, sending us updates of every step while completing the illustration, and also taking feedback and adapting quickly. We are extremely happy with the finished product, and attribute the success of the book in great part to Jessica’s wonderful cover. We will definitely work together again!”

Angela Jurgensen
Founder of Brighter Books

Full Jacket illustration

Design Mock-up – Still in Process

Pictures of the Sculpting Process

So here it is! My first animated illustration. As you can tell, my animation skills are still very limited, but I think that it worked out quite well.

I tend to get caught up in the excitement every time a new gadget comes out.  The general accumulation of defunct toys lying around my apartment got me to pondering the effects of such rapid obsolescence in consumer electronics. With e-waste being right at the top of the list of current environmental concerns, I wanted to do an illustration about how consumer demand for newer better gadgets is driving this wasteful industry. I also had a lot of fun sculpting my favorite classics of computer product design: the Mac Classic, the original Nintendo Gameboy, the Flip Flap solar powered plastic potted plant. Oh the nostalgia! I’m feeling very conflicted.

The non-animated version of this illustration will also be used for my next self-promo postcard!

Final Illustration:

Sketch:

Pictures of the sculpting process:

Here are some test shots I took in between sculpting the pieces. Some pieces are clearly not finished, but it was important to make sure that everything was working out perspective-wise.

Hope you enjoy it!

Working on a new illustration. Here are some tiny hands that I sculpted for my character. I will hopefully have the final illustration to show you next week. Planning something a little different with this one, and I’m not sure how long it will take. I do love learning new things though.

Experimental Piece: Created as a self-promotional postcard.

It’s a bit of a departure from my usual style and subject matter as I wanted to skew towards an audience of children’s book publishers (with a focus on environmental issues). With that in mind, I opted for some brighter colors, the image of the two children tending their “garden” (a composite of real gardening and their imaginations), and a more pop typographic treatment of my name/website address.

THE ILLUSTRATION: PLANT A SEED

WORK-IN-PROGRESS: HOW I MADE THIS ILLUSTRATION

THE SKETCH:

SOME PICS OF THE SCULPTURE: LITTLE GIRL

LITTLE BOY:

THE PAIR:

WITH THE BACKGROUND:

Hope you like it!

I made this handsome wiener dog for my new business card. The piece is unofficially titled “A Clockwork Hot Dog”.

Final Sculpture:

Work-in-progress pictures:

O.K so here it is! This is the final illustration “Freud Puts On His Thinking Cap”. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do

Here are some of the reference pictures that I used for this illustration.

Some pictures of the sculpture:

More work-in-progress pictures can be seen here and here .

360º view of sculpture

Applied Arts award winners now online! – Fun to see my work up on the site.

Take some time to check out the other artists, because there’s lots of great work.

360º view of Freud – character for an upcoming illustration.  Stay tuned to see the final illustration.

The video is a bit glitchy but you get the idea.

I also have iPhone skins available for sale through Society6…they look pretty cool! Just go to my Society6 store and click the image you want, pick the iPhone skin and you’re set! Enjoy!

Skins are thin, easy-to-remove, vinyl decals for customizing your mobile phone. Skins are made from a patented 3M material that eliminates air bubbles for easy application.