LEOPARD SHARK IN KELP FOREST

I used screen shots of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Kelp Forest Live Cam as reference.

 

HVH2O: Costume Paddle

I was asked to create an illustration for a poster advertising HVH2O's Costume Paddle event. Entrants were encouraged to come in costume and/or decorate their paddle boards, kayaks and canoes. I had a lot of fun doing this, especially the visual research into other such events. Much to amusement, I saw that people really did paddle in their T-Rex costumes, so of course I had to add one to my illustration. 

Below is the final design of the poster.

HVH2O: Sea Shanty Jamboree

In 2019, HVH2O held a Sea Shanty Jamboree fundraiser. For the postcard advertising the event, I was asked to create an image showing the Half Moon on the Hudson River, passing by Bear Mountain. I was asked to show some paddlers alongside the ship. If you look closely, there is also a swimmer next to the paddleboarder. A giant sturgeon is leaping out of the water behind them.

Below is the postcard. The postcard was designed by Taryn Murphy.

HVH2O: Site Rendering

Along with two of his friends, my husband recently founded HVH2O, a paddle sports and environmental education non-profit organization. HVH2O stands for Hudson Valley Water (aka the Hudson River). He asked me to create an image that shows a visualization of what a permanent site for the organization could look like at the Peekskill Landing Park. The large structure at the right are kayak and storage lockers, along with a changing room, that HVH2O hopes to get funded through a grant. A previous version of this image didn't show the storage lockers, nor the logo. I patched those in recently. 

To create this, I made a pencil drawing that I scanned, printed out on watercolor paper, and then painted with watercolor. 

Here is what the early version of the HVH2O paddle sports center rendering looked like. Can you spot the differences?

Illustration Friday: SWIM Part 2

Another swimming image, this time it's of the four main swimming strokes that are swum in races: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. I call this illustration "Individual Medley". It's an event  where all four strokes are swum by one person in the order of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. So my swimmer here is swimming this event, note the direction changes. Note the swimsuit changes too, how cool would that be if that could really happen in real life? It's a painful event to swim (I've done it) so why not add some pizzaz and fun with color changing swim gear?