Custom Save the Date Design

 

Recently I was asked by an old friend to design a Save the Date for his wedding and I couldn't have been more excited! Weddings are so much fun, and to be asked to design something so important was truly an honor. They wanted something simple and elegant that captured their character as a couple and also showed illustrated likenesses of them both. But the best part? One of them is a surgeon and the other a ballerina, and they wanted to be shown as such on their Save the Date.

After going through many different sketches of how I would show the couple I ended up with the above final design. The best part of all was sharing the final design with the couple and being told how thrilled they were with it. I love to illustrate and design, and when my skills can help make others happy there is nothing that brings me more joy.

Congratulations to Heather and Brad, and I'm so glad that I could help them out with a small part of their special day!


If you are interested in having your own custom Save the Date illustration created I am now selling them in my shop! You can check them out here.

The Sneak

It has been a while, but I finally have had some time to jump back into the digital artwork that I love to do. Here is my latest piece which I have affectionately named The Sneak. She is available for sale now in my Oh So LoveLee shop.

You can view her in the shop by clicking here.

Sherlock

Hello again everyone! Apologies for the lack of posts the past few months, a lot has been going on in my life since you last heard from me. I'd rather not go into too much detail, but both my personal and professional lives have been full of activity and I have not had too much time for the personal projects that I love to do so much. Luckily though I did manage to find time to create a new acrylic portrait of my new obsession, Benedict Cumberbatch (I call him Benny, and he can call me whatever he wants).

I have always loved detective stories. When I was in elementary school I used to sign out Encyclopedia Brown books from the school library and spend hours and hours trying to figure out the answers to all of the mysteries. When I finally discovered the stories of Sherlock Holmes I had found a set of mysteries that I would never grow too old for, and I fell in love. To this day I will read any Sherlock Holmes story, no matter how many times I have already read it, and I will be genuinely entertained every time.

I have seen many big screen/TV versions of Sherlock Holmes over the years, and I have enjoyed them all, but NO ONE plays Sherlock the way that Benny does. He makes you hate him and love him at the same time. And those cheekbones! Yea, I am a little obsessed, but Sherlock is a fantastic show and if you haven't seen it before I highly recommend watching it!

I hope you enjoy this portrait, and if you want to learn more about Sherlock here is the website for the show: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/