new tumblr..

can be found here!!


http://annaliseolson.tumblr.com/

xoxo A

moving....

hey erebody,

I am going to move my blog over to tumblr... it may take a bit to transfer all of this work.... so ill pop back in and tell you the address once more it settled... LOVE YOU!

experimenting with things

Dumping some stuff on here.... These are really quick drawings I do in a live model class I go to.. I am constantly trying to loosen up so most of these are 1 to 5 mins and mostly I draw with my non-given hand, some of these are even drawn with sticks!
 enjoy!

some hot mommi's, drawn with my left hand

more left hand mommi's

this girl was buff! quick 1 min sketch

this was funny, the blue pen is with my left hand while i simultaneously drew with my right!

some feet for ya

quick blind partial blind sketch/aka i looked a the paper maybe twice

really quick "mood" sketches, so much fun to draw this guy

more "mood" capturing

enjoy! 

David Bearie!

Hey guys! I made a scroll! what  kind of scroll you ask? well, a scroll that tells a story, and the story i wanted to tell today is the not so well known tale about David Bowie and his alternate life growing up in Bear universe. Yes, little did you know, he was actually raised by bears, became a world famous popstar, and then left this earthly world to go back to wherever he came from with his lovely wife Iman. 

So , here is the scroll, presented in all its scroll glory, scrolling by. The medium is ink and the scroll is about 40 feet long. Enjoy! 

Singular images to come later. 

Logo time!!

Hey doods! I made a logo for, my friend and roomate, Rachel Brookstein's child and baby photography business. check it. Here is her site!!

I worked On a Movie!!

I can't tell you which one, although once its out I will give some more information. But I am allowed to release some drawings I did for the storyboard work. This was my first time really storyboarding, and I had a lot of fun! Although it was a TON of work with school and homework going on as well.
There were about 450 drawings in total for the entire movie! whew!

Kids and their Monsters, even in the City

Illustration made as a in class assignment

Water color and pen drawing

show poster/i love bears

who knows if these will become something

Wreckless Eric's Whole Wide World

I'd go the Whole Wide World , I'd go the whole wide world, just to find her! Click the link to hear the song.

This piece is based off the song Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric released in 1977.
It makes me super happy when I listen to it!

Class portrait

Parsons Illustration Concepts 2011 -FOREVER!

this is an assignment from class, to draw a class portrait! Here we all are, out on a life raft, what will happen next??

Craigslist

Still an ongoing project CHECK IT OUT

Some portraits

I have been drawing in a process that Half the time I am drawing "blind" or not looking at the paper. Every once and a while I orient myself but most of the time I look at the subject. After I am done I go back and pretty it up. Here are 3 of those

Animals at central park zoo

This is Gus, Central Park Zoo's polar bear, hanging out with some penguin friends. Of course they are toasting marshmallows, because I am not sure there is anything better than that when the zoo is closed. Looks cold too. Unfortunately Gus is a recent widower. His old lady was name Ida and this piece is dedicated to her.

Moving

Sorry I haven't up but life has been THE CRAZY for about a month now. Quick update:
I am now living in NEW YORK CITY. Yup, that's right! I transferred to Parsons on a very last minute offer from their illustration dept! I am missing friends in Baltimore, but the world is a big place and keeping old connections while making new ones is important to me. You may ask, why New York? Why now? Well I have thought about this a lot and at this point in my life making connections with Illustrators and Film-makers has become essential in my work. If not now, when?? So to get a jump start on jobs and artistic happenings, I have moved to possibly the most inspiring and happening place in the world. Who knows what will happen? So far everything is good!

I have started a couple new projects that are currently on their own sites, but I will continue to post work here, and hopefully get a website up soon! One project I am very excited about is my Illustrating for Craigslist project on Tumblr! Go check it out!

I will post those works here as well, but they really are fun to see on their own blog. So here's a teaser of that:

Overload of work from last semester

"fireside friends" done in watercolor. -What would it be like to toast marshmallows with David Bowie, Clint Eastwood, James Dean and George Harrison?

My name, made from cut paper and good lighting!

Edwina White inspired drawing, also based off people from the sartorialist

Another color change.

Final color change on this piece, I swear it's done now. The reds got more red and the blues got bluesier.

Fabric design for SpoonFlower.com

For handlettering this week we made a pattern for the spoonflower.com weekly contest.


ABC's!!
A is for alligator
B is for bear
C is for cat 
D is for dolphin 


here's the link so you can vote !! scroll through the fabric patterns till you find mine, then click on

and here's my piece 

basic design

design applied as a pattern

Winning Poster for Words on Wheels!!!

So... My poster was chosen as the winner for the poem "School Lunch!" !!
I'm going to the launch on April 12th and I will get to meet this kids who wrote the poems! Then my poster will be in several buses going around for a whole year !


Check out this video from last year's launch!

touch up on my heaven

Just finished doing some touch ups. The bear's lines are a bit darker, the Beatles faces are a little more distinctly Beatles and my legs are a little longer, can you tell?

We're gonna do it with this one too..

Again, the beginning is a sketch, me crowd surfing on bears at a Beatles concert :

the sketch

 next i filled in some basic colors, just to get an feeling going. i also outlined some characters

 i ended up using the sketchy outlines for the bears, i think it balances well with the "photoshopped" look. Also Beatles got some hair and skin color.

 Lastly i changed the levels so the bear outline shows up better, and i colored in some other elements. i ended up leaving the stage as is from the sketch, because a friend of mine really thought it worked well. we'll have to see what my teacher thinks tomorrow.

Final