Pancake and Booze art show

I entered an art show recently.  It was called The Pancake and Booze art show.  Holy cow was it NEAT.  There were so many fantastic art and great flapjacks too! Unfortunately I didn't eat any flapjacks due to there being a HUGE line.  Next time I will eat those flapjacks...

Wallpaper

 I have discovered a new hobby! Making wallpaper. 

Sprout in Photoshop

It's been awhile since I've posted any work.  Been busy working on illustrations for clients and updating my portfolio.  I have been working on Sprout's story a bit and some of the characters that he meets along the way.  One of them is an Aviator Alligator named Albert.  Al for short.  

Any who,  here is a illustration I did of Sprout.



© Mackenzie Bowles 2012 

medium: pencil, Photoshop CS5

The Big Bad Wolf and The Crow Bros.

I designed the Big Bad Wolf for the Children Book Illustration class I took last fall and now I'm getting the chance to make a whole story out of him! He ain't with the piggies no more. He's with the crows now. Don't mess with the crows or else...

©Mackenzie Bowles 2013

medium: watercolor, ink, pencil and Adobe Photoshop CS6

The Adventures of Sprout and Otto

Here's another piece that I concepted for Sprout.  This is what he looks like as of right now.  I'm still trying to get the feel of how he's going to look like.  I wanted to start illustrating his story and so far it's turning out pretty good.  I also want to concept the other adventurers Sprout meets; the octopus that is with Sprout, his name is Otto and he's a sailor.  These 3 panels is just a warm up of Sprout's adventure. Later on in the month, I hope to illustrate some more complex landscapes.  


©Mackenzie Bowles 2013
medium: watercolors, ink, pencil and Adobe Photoshop CS6 

"Swim Club" by Arden Johnson

One of the assignments for my Children's Book Illustration class was to  storyboard, create a character packet and make a dummy book for this story called "Swim Club".  I received a script about a little boy learning how to swim.  The characters name was Alex.  I decided to draw the Creature from the Black Lagoon as the main character of the story.  I also had to draw the bullies of the story too.  Overall, it was a pretty cool assignment.   Hopefully when I have some free time,  I will do a character packet for Alex Creature. 

© Mackenzie Bowles 2012-2013
© "Swim Club" by Arden Johnson 
medium: pencil, ink, watercolor, photoshop

Postcards

For Christmas I got a new set of watercolors and some paper.  The watercolors are called Dr. Ph. Martin's. I started experimenting with the new watercolors and boy was it fun! The colors are so vivide and beautiful! These are a bunch of little 4x6 postcards I created and gave them to my friends and mom.  

© Mackenzie Bowles 2012-2013

medium: pencil, ink, Dr. Ph. Martin's watercolors