Website is Up

I finally have a website! For me personally I feel a website is always a work in progress. I will keep updating new work. But for now this is what I have =)

smartinezart.com 

Silkscreen Fun

This semester I'm finally taking silkscreen a technique I've been dying to learn. It very challenging but the outcome you can get is just beautiful. For our 1st project we could design anything we want with the teachers approval of course. I decided on my child of the woods thumbnail. Here is my process from thumbnail to clean up line work and finally my finished illustration. Now the fun begins separating each layer.

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Handsome Pup in Bow Ties

Chihuahua's in bow ties what's cute than that ?  This lovely little pattern is based off our own little man Samson. This pattern also comes in blue bow ties as well. I see this become just the cutest blouse for any dog loving gal. 

Thanks for viewing have a great week ! 

Sketchbook Shares

Just a few sketches from my handy dandy sketchbook. 

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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