Quick sketch

Here be a quick sketch. Enjoy.

Old image.

Don't think I have time to create anything new right now.. so here is an old image from my website. It was for a children's book I illustrated for someone.

Merry Christmas

Here is a doodle.

Military papers

Designed some military papers for some stickers I created a little while ago. I only did 2 of the 6 military papers.

Book

I wrote and illustrated a book. It is for my children. Here is a useful link =)

Cowgirl papers

Here are some papers designed for a cowgirl theme line.

Cowboy papers

Here are some cowboy papers designed awhile ago. Did some stickers that coordinate with these as well, they are posted a few posts ago.

Winter Line Ad

Here is a winter line ad I created. I laid everything out and did the illustrations and another designer added the text, logo, and images of the product.

Ad for Scrapbook Magazine - Dragon and Princess

I have done a couple ads for different scrapbook magazines. This one, I did all of the illustration and layout, and another designer placed the text and images of the paper.

Dragon papers

These papers are for the Dragon stickers I posted a little while ago.
These are also on www.scrapbookpaper.com if you want to buy them... and I know you do.

Autumn papers

Did these several months ago. They have been released for a couple months already. I didn't do the stickers for these, another artist did, but was unable to do the papers so i took them over.

Military Stickers

Here are some military stickers I designed

Christmas Papers

Here are some Christmas papers I designed for this past years Christmas release. These coordinate with some Christmas stickers I designed as well. Those stickers can be seen on a previous entry. These papers and all of the stickers I have posted are available at scrapbookpaper.com if you want to get them.

Winter papers

One of the stickers I posted last time was a winter sticker that I created. Here are the coordinating papers for that sticker. The them is winter, if you can't tell =)

Some more product

Here are a couple more stickers that have been released

Graphic Novel

I have decided that I am going to put together a graphic novel. I will start with a short story and try to get other artists in on the project to put together a collection of short graphic stories, much like Flight.

Work.

Here are some more released products.

More released products for KFD

Here are some more images of product that was released earlier this year. These are canning labels, they are made to go on the top and the front of a canning jar. They would be used for labeling your canned good in a nice way or giving them as a present to someone...

Some more art

I figure I will keep posting some work that I have been doing for the past 9 months. Everything that I post is released already, but I am always working on tons of stuff that is still in development and has not been released.

Been forever.

Ok, so I have been really busy. I am going to post some work that I have done for KFD in the past coupl of months. These are stickers that have already been released, and they can be found at: www.karenfosterdesign.com. Enjoy.

I am on a magazine cover

Anybody who is anybody has a magazine with their picture on the cover. Look at Oprah. She's on her magazine cover all the time. I have become anybody. My face is on this cover. I know it's glamorous, you can all be jealous.

New Business Idea

I have a new business idea. A fire factory. Think of it. I will be the main source for anyone who needs fire. I will manufacture it and sell it at a reasonable price. All I really need to invest in are things like matches... maybe a building... all of the wood I can collect in the forests... I think this may be one of my best ideas yet.

2018 is coming.

Ok, so the new Terminator film is set in 2018. It takes place after a nuclear holocaust and the robots have taken over. In Back to the Future 2, they travel to 2015 where there are flying cars and hoverboards. Right now, it's 2009. This means that there are only a few years left (i can;t do the math to find out exactly) until we get flying cars, hoverboards, robot overlords and a nuclear holocaust. I'm not a scientist, I can't invent these things. It is up to the smart people of the world to get this thing going, because we don't have a lot of time left, hopefully.

Camera Screensaver

So, I got a new phone this week, and it's pretty cool. Not only does it take better pictures (2 megapixels), but I can copy Flash files onto it and set them as my screen saver or background. It's awesome. I have lived with my other phone for too long. So, anyway, I made a little flash animation and set it as my screen saver. Here is a screen shot of it.

Colored Boots

These were made from the sketch in the earlier posting. I used the sketch as a template, then I traced over it and colored it in Illustrator and Photoshop.

Combat boots.

Doing a military theme here at work, did a sketch of some combat boots. not much, but I'm busy.

New 3D render for work.

Apparently there is going to be some sort of trade show, so i was asked to do a mock-up of the booth in 3D to get a feel for how it will look. Here is the render of that. Turns out this configuration will be a bit crammed. The guy was a free model i got off the internet to show how big a person would be in elation to the objects.

My Swing Set plan

OK. Here is another update. I had to take the roof off and do some other stuff to make it more stable, then i got the roof back on, with some modifications, and added the lookout. Going to hopefully finish the look-out and ladder tonight. We'll see.


Here is the progress so far. Got two swings up last night. Will get the other swing up tonight and start working on the ladder and rockwall and hopefully get the lookout area finished. Just need more time in the day.

UPDATE! This is the progress on my play set. Not quite done yet, but getting there. As you can see I had to flip it from my original plan, but it's still basically the same.

So I am going to build mi kids a swing set/playhouse. So I designed it in Maya and rendered it out. Now I just have to make it a reality.

Some creature...

Random drawing, just started doodling. It was on top of other sketches for work, so there is a lot of noise here. Enjoy.

I think i'll finish this one.

Just the line drawing here, I think I will finish it though... I'll post it if I do.

Some sketches.

Been really busy at work. It doesn't get me excited about ding stuff on my own time, so these are just a couple sketches that I have been doodling on my lunch break. It's weird. I draw all day long at work, then I do the same on my lunch break... like I can't get enough of it. Enjoy.