5 of 40: Katy Perry

Had to go to class today so this had to wait until I got home.  I will say I looked at one video of her performing "Wide Awake," which this is supposed to represent, at some musical awards show and got this idea from her performance. Doesn't look anything like her but I will say it pleasantly reminds me of vintage alcohol posters. To be on time I need to publish this by midnight so I will spend very little time on the post. Night!

4 of 40: Fun. & Janelle Monae

"We are Young." I love this song and actually it has fallen one slot to Katy Perry's, "Wide Awake," since I drew this last night. Nate Ruess is the lead vocals for Fun. and Janelle Monae adds a beautiful etherial melody to this anthem for todays youth. I thought if I completely ignore the other members of Fun. for simplicity sake, Nate and Janelle are equally at the heart of why I enjoy this song. So they share center (1/2 and 1/2) stage in my drawing. The picture is a bit freakish together but if you cover one side of the screen then the other, you actually can get a good sense of their likenesses. 

3 of 40: Adam Levine and Wiz Khalifa

You can deny the catchiness of this song but why bother.  I know this is just another case of two musicians cashing in on the success of each other but does that really matter when I am singing their high falsetto hooks at the top of my lungs in the shower? Sadly, the answer is no. I am pretty happy with the two likenesses here, granted Levine kinda looks like an anime character, but the tattoos are pretty fun and I believe respectable facsimiles of the real things.  The song is called "Payphone" so I totally stretched my imagination an placed them in a phone booth, BRILLIANT! I gotta work on being more creative with my ideas and these solid-ish background although easy and speedy to do are gonna get old real fast. Thanks for reading!

2 of 40: Gotye and Kimbra

It's only day two but I am already bored of the microphone pose so I think I will not do that for the next one or any after that (don't quote me on that).  I've set myself up with a little schedule for doing these.  It requires a little better time management in the morning and a dedication to not go to bed too late at night, which isn't working out too well yet.  "Somebody that I used to know" is number 2 on the US top 40 as of yesterday and it happens to me one of my favorite songs. Happy with the color on here, not super thrilled with her pose or their likenesses. Well I guess that is what practice is for.

1st of 40: Carley Rae Jepsen

In an effort to keep my creative juices flowing after coming back from ICON7 in Providence, Rhode Island. I have decided to do a drawing a day for 40 days. Now as most of you know this can be very daunting task to keep up but I believe by setting this goal for myself I will keep my hand in the game and hopefully improve my "famous people" drawing skills. For this challenge I have decided to do the US Billboard top 40 which this day just happens to be a woman by the name of Carley Rae Jepsen who is blowing up the charts with her bubble gum pop song, "Call me Maybe"

Monterey Bay Aquarium Illustration Job!!

So I was contacted a couple weeks ago by the web team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. They'd seen my work on the kid's menus in the restaurant there and wanted to gauge my interest about some possible illustration work for them. Apparently kid's visiting the MBA website can download and print coloring pages at home. I jumped at the chance and signed a contract for 6 pages to replace some of the more dated ones that exist already. I submitted some of my sketches already and they received good reviews from the web team and now are being checked for accuracy by the husbandry department. Here are some of the sketches I did for the sunfish and great white shark.

Finished! mostly..

So I finished my niece's mural and it's pretty sweet. I understand she looks at it constantly and I think that is awesome. I hope it lasts a long time but who knows with kids, right?. I loved doing it and would be happy to do it again for anyone interested and within a 150 mile radius of where I reside.