A PiggyWig with a Ring at the End of His Nose?

We had to illustrate a part of the story "The Owl and the Pussycat" and I couldn't get over the random humor of how the owl finally found a wedding ring to give his beloved pussy on a random island, where the "bong trees grow" at the end of a "piggywig"s nose!

Baby Thumbelina gets kidnapped!

This was our most recent assignment in Will's class, "Children's Book Illustration."  We had to choose a scene from Thumbelina.  This is where Mr. Toad shows up and kidnaps Thumbelina!  Rude!

THREE ANIMALS TRAVELING (unfinished)

For "Children's Book Illustration" we were to do "three animals traveling" and I decided to do animals escaping the circus together by way of cannon!

Will Terry was more concerned about the design and composition than rendering to finish, so a lot of the class didn't finish this one, and spent more time on the planning and design.  This is how far I got!

"Bugs"

Bugs

I like bugs.
Black bugs.
Green bugs.
Bad bugs,
Mean bugs,

Any kind of bug.

A bug in a rug,
A bug in the grass,
A bug on the sidewalk,
A bug in a glass - 
I like bugs.

Round bugs,
Shiny bugs,
Fat bugs,
Buggy bugs,
Big bugs,
Lady bugs,
I like bugs.

- Margaret Wise Brown

Still needs a lot of touching up.  Lady bug still has no spots.  But here it is!  First assignment for Will Terry's class.  One of the most AMAZING children's book illustrators I know.  How did I get so lucky to have him teach me this class!

Lee be my art friend (see her awesomeness here), among many other wonderful things, and she lets me come to her and her hub Tyler's house to do homework.  You know those days where you have to paint aaaallll day like until midnight even? ...You don't?  Oh.  Anyway, it's WAY easier to keep going when you wanna poke your eyeballs out... when someone is suffering next to you.  Thanks to lots of laughs, jokes, stories, movies, music, Tyler entertaining and encouraging, while we paint, it all helps me to just keep swimming... just keep swimming...