To Tell the Toof

Some handle "home alone" better than others.

The Day Job

I recently started a new job at the publishing company.

One of the first requests I received from the team leader? 

 Create an illustration for the rollout meeting.

Ugh. If you insist.

(Completed in a quick all-nighter because procrastination is real.)

Face Your Battles

It has been a stressful and busy start to the new year, so I decided to 

try drawing a therapeutic self-portrait into which I could put all of the negative energy 

I've been feeling so that she can deal with it and I can relax.

It's been helpful, actually.

I recommend it.

Mid-progress, out of curiosity, I decided to take a picture of the larger-than-life drawing 

and put it next to the photo I'd been working from on my phone.

They matched up far better than I had hoped they would. 

The brain is a fascinating thing.

I inherited that scowl... Flattering, no?

12th Day of Procrastinators

Christmas Card 2014

Fly-nally Drawing Again

Some in-progress sketches from my recent plane rides this past week, 

drawn on itty bitty, tiny paper.

Images borrowed from my instagram: @kelcroyillustrations

Hanging with my bestie, J. Law.

The air's hottest club this weekend was Delta.

You Do You

A drawing I did today for no other reason than I wanted to.

Because no one is better at it than you.

Rock a Draw Baby

Just finished this portrait of this handsome chubster and his lovely mother.

Pencil, 16x20

Pardon my bright desk light...

Borrowed from instagram @kelcroyillustrations

Let's Get Some Shoes

Hello, All!

Sorry for the radio silence. 

But I'm about to start making up for it - lots of projects in the works!

First, a just for fun (joke) sketch I did for a friend.

They're launching a great new shoe company soon.

You should check them out here!

Which one is your favorite?

Princess by Design

I was recently commissioned to design and create a Disney inspired princess

version of a spunky, spirited birthday girl.

Um, YES. Yes, I will do that.

It was a blast.

Meet Clara.

Here is the original sketch, done in a Starbucks in Cambridge on a gloriously lovely day.

I don't usually do the middle step, but I wanted to make sure I liked the color concept I'd chosen.

Thought it might be fun to line them up side by side.

Here are some other color experiments. 

 This is my favorite of the color schemes I tried. 

I would wear this all the time, always, forever.

Here are some funky, in-between stages that I thought had kind of an interesting look to them.

New Neighbors

Keeping professionalism alive and well in my new office.

(He and I have a copy of this hanging in our cubicles).

They'll Hough and They'll Puff...

And they'll blow your mind!

In preparation for my trip to NYC this month to see Julianne and Derek Hough's 

MOVE LIVE on TOUR

I created my third installment of goofy celebrity drawings, this time a "selfie"

with the talented sibs (since I can't afford VIP tickets to take a real photo).

The following photos are from my Instagram account.

@kelcroyillustrations

The drawing is 2.5" x 2.5"

I added this last one for scale.

There's No Place Like Holmes

Sometimes when I need a break from juggling projects I have some tea...

 with Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch).

The following are just some iPhone pictures I took while working on 

this silly, for-fun project.

Here's the first in-progress shot that I posted on Instagram.

I asked people if they could guess who it was.

For more pictures, please follow me @kelcroyillustrations !!

Benedict is underway. I put my pencil in for scale.

The full, finished drawing is about 3"x4"

Finished! 

3"x4" pencil

Another post from Instagram

@kelcroyillustrations

Please Loki My Way

Photobooth with Loki.

Because why not?

2"x10" Mechanical Pencil

Below are unedited "progress" shots from my iPhone. 

Much to my mother's inevitable disapproval, I drew this in a pretty dim space, 

which accounts for the weird lighting on the first few.

And a 2a.m. selfie for scale.

We Named Him Vinny

It was a slow morning at work in the chiropractic office, so I decided to decorate.

Dry-erase marker on glass.

In other news, there was a fly in our apartment last night...

Columbia Cartoons

Below are some quick sketches I've done so far during my time in New York.

There are only a few since we've been pretty busy.

This last one was a goofy joke between some of my new friends.

The pug was a request.