Red Cross Poster - final design

Over the weekend, the designer sent me the final version of the poster with all the text. Here it is:


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Baby potatoes

My husband had bought a bag of potatoes from the Hutterites in the spring and the few we hadn't eaten by July were soft and sprouting. It was way past the time to be planting potatoes, but I stuck them in the ground anyway rather than compost them. There were 4 of them and they grew. On Sunday I dug them up. Most of the potatoes were really small, but one was actually a pretty decent size. I can't wait to eat them - garden potatoes are so good.

The drummer and the bass player

I was at the Wonderland: Fall into Madness show at The Gateway on Saturday night. One of the bands that performed was Sally Hardesty. All of the members were quite entertaining, even as audience members during the other acts. I managed to remember 2 of them well enough to draw from memory. Although they didn't really look like this, I still like how the sketch turned out.


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

I actually won the door prize that night - 2 tickets to Gwar. I'm going with the hubby - should make for an interesting night :)

More sketchbook characters

I did these drawings while on a business trip in Whistler, BC, last week.


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Dario as a little boy

This is how I imagine my husband was as a little boy.


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Sketchbook fun - 3 characters

©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

illustration for poster

This illustration is for a poster that I was working on a little while ago. I didn't do the design for it and haven't seen it yet with the text. I'll post it once I do.


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

The thing about this project that was really great for me creatively, is that it brought me back to the kind of drawing that I used to love to do. Over the years I've slowly gotten away from the more free style of drawing that I used to do as a student, which is also the type of drawing that I tend to do for children's stuff. In my sketches for this poster - and there were a lot of sketches - I was drawing many children and I haven't drawn human children in a long time. Instead of focussing on proportion, I was just having fun with facial expression, different sized eyes, elongated limbs... It was great. Here's some of my process sketches for this poster - they're pretty rough but I think the little girl is cute:


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

Although I think in time this way of drawing will dominate, for now I don't think it's appropriate for all of the illustration projects that I work on. I'll just be using it for drawings meant for children.

Since finishing this project I have been so inspired and excited. I've been working steadily in my sketchbook, more than I have ever before. Not everything I've drawn is good, but I've been experimenting and really enjoying the process. I've been drawing lots of characters which I'll be posting in the days to come.

Powerline screen prints

©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli


©2008 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli

print making!!!!!

I've been learning how to silk screen from Karen Klassen (see her impressive portfolio here), and on Saturday I got to make some actual prints. It was really fun and something I hope to do more of in the future.









I haven't had a chance to scan any of the prints yet, but I'll post some of those once I do.

Ahnabith Gish photo shoot with balloons

These are the photos from the Ahnabith Gish photo shoot a few weeks ago which I mentioned here. I drew the boys' portraits on the balloons for the shoot with local photographer Marki Sveen. At the end, we slowly deflated them and liked the way the drawings skewed. The balloons also looked interesting when they were fully deflated.