new website design!

i redesigned my website! check it out and let me know what you think!

I'm also getting ready to start sending out self-promotional stuff.

yay freelance illustration career, it's on like donkey kong!

www.amymariestad.com

rabbit fever

gotta love rabbits!  here are two recent rabbit creations.

first is my first attempt at needle felting, (thanks to the lovely Stephanie 

  for the tutorial this past weekend!) 

here he is posing with his friend the garden gnome.

and second is just a rabbit enjoying a sunset

with his three favorite flowers...

Also, on a side note, i started listening to this podcast called Escape From Illustration Island. It's pretty good, and features pretty in depth and interesting interviews with working illustrators. The most recent episode has an interview with Jon Klassen who did the concept illustrations for Coraline. (ah!)

check it out here: http://escapefromillustrationisland.com/2010/01/26/podcast-episode-19-jon-klassen/

(the sounds a bit funky because i think they did it over the phone, but the interview is great.)

there's no place like home

I like to draw houses a lot, maybe because i'm a geek for architecture or maybe i have some subconscious obession with the idea of a home... either way. here's a recent illustration i did. (with some close ups, since its kinda big and hard to apperciate all at once, i feel)

just a doodle

I've been wanting to post this, it's sort of an experiment i did a few weeks ago while I was sick and stuck at home.

i was just messing around with post its and a sharpie and my camera in between fits of coughing up phlegm. mmm, delicious! I'd like to make some more attempts of traveling into the fourth dimension as we travel along in to 2010. we'll see...

holidays

some stuff from over the past month.

these were some super excited people at the airport

my mom :)

some christmas cacti in nevada

a little rabbit in the woods


tah-dah!

playing around, using recycled material textures and bits and pieces of drawing from previous illustrations, i made a quick new piece.

and then i made another!

illustration friday: flying

daydreaming about flying cars for this week's illustration friday.

a little witch

a gnome conversation

mmm....fall!