South Korean Street store front.

I saw a picture of a South Korean store front. I liked it. It had a lot of character, so I decided to sketch and paint it.

Enjoy.

oh, here is the etsy link:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/85727796/south-korean-street-shop-85x11-art-print

Artwork for Mexican Retaurant

I created some illustrations for a little Mexican Restaurant located in South Korea called "Gusto Taco". I was just sent a photo of how they were used in the store
Enjoy.

City Street

City street illustration. Enjoy.

Ghoul_Halloween sketch brushes

Welcome! Here are 19 hi-res Photoshop brushes for you to use in any design you want. They are all original sketches by me, and I will be adding more as the days go by, so check back often! Feel free to email me for suggestions, or to show me what you have done with my product. Thanks!

Danny Devito rides again.

Watching "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Thought I would try and draw Devito... don't know if it is successful, but it's a start.

Maternity and School

So here are the last two lines I worked on for this release: Maternity and School. There are other collateral I designed for these lines like stacked elements and charms etc... but i didn't feel like posting those... so deal with it. If you want to check out the full line, you can go to www.karenfosterdesign.com or scrapbookpaper.com and see all the new stuff.
Later.

Potty training

Alright, Here are 2 more themes (I'm trying to get through all of these, it was a big release). The top one is for babies as they grow older.. like the first time they do stuff. "Baby's Firsts" I think it is called. The second one is potty training. You can use one of the papers as a potty training chart and track their status..
Here is Karen Foster Design's official website: http://karenfosterdesign.com/
And here is the site you can buy all of these products from if you can't find it in any store: http://scrapbookpaper.com/

Happy Monday. Also, here is some more stuff.

Here we have Christmas. This year we split Christmas into 2 separate lines: Whimsical and Vintage. The top two images are the Vintage line and the bottom two are the Whimsical line.  The smaller image on each is the sticker set that coordinates with the paper. Anyway, let me know what you think.

Football

Here is the football line that was recently released. It is made to give it a semi-vintage feel to it.
The small image is a sheet of card stock stickers, and the larger images are papers.  I think they turned out pretty cool.

Srapbook Time again.

OK, as you may know. I work full-time at Karen Foster Design as a Lead Illustrator/Designer. Every couple of months we release new product. It is that time again. There was just a Craft and Hobby Association show last week and the new products were released, so I can now share them on my blog. I will just show the ones I created, one a day for the next couple of days. Enjoy.

OK, I lied. Here are 2 different products, Autumn and Thanksgiving. I just designed them to coordinate, so i am posting them together.
Karen Foster's Website: http://karenfosterdesign.com/
Online store where you can buy this stuff: http://scrapbookpaper.com/

Late at night posting...

A friend commissioned me to create a piece of artwork for her baby's room. This is what I created. It will by 2'x3'... pretty big

Brushes

Ok, one more post today. I uploaded some brushes for people to download. If you use Photoshop, you may find these useful, if not, oh well. Enjoy! Become one of my blog minions for more updates!
Here is the link:
http://www.brusheezy.com/Brushes/11520-Sketchbook-brushes

New tool

I got a trial of CS5 and I was playing around with a new tool in Illustrator. It is a vector brush tool. I used it to create the shadows and highlights on this bunny.

Flyer and bookmark.

Outside of flier

Inside of flier

Bookmark

 

Last December I was asked to make this. I forgot about it and came across it when I was cleaning up my files. It was for a contest down in a California school district. I did the artwork and the type in this, and if I remember right, it was all to be done really quick. So there was a pretty fast turn around on this. There is also a bookmark that went along with it.

Not sure how I feel about this one.

Here is another sketch. Not sure if I like it or not, but I figured I need to post something.

Girl with Goggles part 2

Here is an update to the drawing I posted a couple of days ago. I painted this one. As you can see. I tend to not worry about my sketch lines when I paint, I like to see them with the color, I think it looks cooler, has a certain amount of organic feel to it, rather than a clean, overly worked image... maybe that's just me.

Toy Story Carnival

Look at this, we get two postings today. Very rare, but worth it. This is a personal project. It is an invitation for my son's 4th birthday party. Got the illustrations from Disney online coloring books and went from there. I think it turned out cool. The benefits of having an artist for a dad I guess.

Goggles.

What would a blog post be without goggles? I enjoy goggles, own a pair of my own (handcrafted by me) and I thought, why not put them on a chick? So here you go. Goggles on a chick. It kind of ties in with a personal project I am working on... kind of. This project will hopefully be huge. I am planning on working on it over the next year and not really telling anyone about it. It seems when i voice stuff, it never ends up happening, so i am keeping it quiet.

Another self-portrait.

If you are so privileged to be on my Facebook page, or a Facebook fan of Sabor Design Studio, then you have already seen this. Here is another self-portrait created out of sheer boredom.

Texas Stacked Statement

I made this over a year ago, I jut thought I would share my art file, and the final product that sells in stores. The top one is the actual product, and the bottom is the illustrator file I sent to the manufacturer.