National Dog Day

In celebration of National dog day I decide to make a cute decorative custom portrait of all my dogs. 

I first start off with a clean sketch and bring that into photoshop. 

In photoshop the lasso tool is your best friend for fast clean shapes. I block out all the shapes and build on top of that. 

Details can then be added on top of those solid shapes. 

One of my scruffy models Skipper my poodle. 

Minnie the other poodle 

Samson the tuff chihuahua 

Waffle my goofy dachshund.  

And finally sweet maggie girl the Rottweiler. 

New Items to the shop

Added some new Illustrations and fun patterns to my shop on society 6. Take a look http://society6.com/SmartinezArt and it's finally friday have a great one everyone !

Loving the look of Illustration to final product it's so rewarding.

August is full of Patterns

A well deserved update is needed. August has been a very busy month with moving and working  there is never enough time. But I manage to sneak some sketches in =) 

Working at Anthropologie I'm obsessed and inspired with patterns on dresses, stationary, shoes and kitchen ware. (Pretty much anything!) I made two little pattern sketches with a mixed media I'm exploring. Nothing to fancy just ink on top of gouache. Love the outcome to it.

Finch Tweets 

Carnation Garden

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