Finally spring is upon us and that of course means a new season of freelance work. Got a few projects in the works and one recently completed and on hiatus indefinitely. This one will not be going up on my portfolio at this time as it has not been released to the public. Perhaps sometime in the future it will be. I am currently making a few updates to my webpage and working on a physical portfolio as well.
I am taking commissions. If you are interested in having something designed/illustrated or drawn please send me an email or contact me through my social media websites.
Email: andrea.palmer855@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sereneconceptions
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/alleria855/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrealeannepalmer
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SereneConcepts
DeviantArt: http://alleria855.deviantart.com/
I would also like to note that I currently only take payments for commissions through Paypal and Interac E-transfers.
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Saturday, 25 January 2014
The Croods
Well hello everyone alas I write to you again. It is of course a new
year and so far I hope it is going well for everyone. I have been
working on some projects and got some new ones cooking up but I wanted
to write about my latest interest (obsession). So I got "the Croods" for Christmas and I
guess this is a sort of impromptu review of the movie.
Quite honestly I thought it was going to be your average guy meets girl, girl runs off with handsome "Guy" falls in love blah blah blah. Well I was WAY off the mark because the movie was darn AWESOME!. Dreamworks I am a fan of your movies. I mean Shrek was great and How to Train your dragon was wicked, but I have to say they out did themselves with the Croods. The characters which at first might seen simplistic are really quite complicated and well done. And the special effects well at times they looked real (if I wasn't watching an animated movie I might think it was real).
Don't want to give away spoilers here but if you haven't seen it you NEED to! Lastly the music score on this movie was just so moving that I love just about every song in the soundtrack (Going Guy's Way being my favourite of the lot). So i've watched this movie a few times and well I can't get it out of my head lol. So already I did draw a sketch of Eep and Guy. I have a link to it below on my DeviantArt account. And I have ideas for some more drawings and the like. So, anyway if you have not seen the movie please do because it is quite simply amazing.
http://alleria855.deviantart.com/art/Eep-guy-428880945 - Link to my drawing of Eep and Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrbwgn_kRBo#t=15 - The official Trailer for the movie
Quite honestly I thought it was going to be your average guy meets girl, girl runs off with handsome "Guy" falls in love blah blah blah. Well I was WAY off the mark because the movie was darn AWESOME!. Dreamworks I am a fan of your movies. I mean Shrek was great and How to Train your dragon was wicked, but I have to say they out did themselves with the Croods. The characters which at first might seen simplistic are really quite complicated and well done. And the special effects well at times they looked real (if I wasn't watching an animated movie I might think it was real).
Don't want to give away spoilers here but if you haven't seen it you NEED to! Lastly the music score on this movie was just so moving that I love just about every song in the soundtrack (Going Guy's Way being my favourite of the lot). So i've watched this movie a few times and well I can't get it out of my head lol. So already I did draw a sketch of Eep and Guy. I have a link to it below on my DeviantArt account. And I have ideas for some more drawings and the like. So, anyway if you have not seen the movie please do because it is quite simply amazing.
http://alleria855.deviantart.com/art/Eep-guy-428880945 - Link to my drawing of Eep and Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrbwgn_kRBo#t=15 - The official Trailer for the movie
Sunday, 14 July 2013
What inspires my creativity
I thought that I would give people an insight into the kinds of things that inspire me to create the things I draw and illustrate. My inspirations include nature, weddings, my dreams, food, crafts, and architecture. Since describing them all in one post would be like writing a novel, I will only be talking about one today and will discuss the others in my next post.
So the first thing that tends to inspire me is nature. Ever since I was a baby about 1 or 2 months old, I have been going camping with my parents. Also for about 13 years I was also a part of Girl Guides of Canada. So that means a real up close relationship with the world around me. It is quite fascinating how much really is in this natural world. The colours that I associate with nature are blue (lakes, oceans, the sky, rain and water) and green (leaves, trees, grass, shrubs, any other kind of greenery). It was nature that inspired my latest portfolio design and the newest comic creature, Mr. Owl.
Now as much as I love green and blue, I also love flowers and by golly nature is full of flowers in so many colours and shades that there is an endless array of colour combinations. Lets not forget that said flowers also come in many shapes and sizes as well. One must truly see the complex structures of nature's treasures and scientists are only just getting to know the inner workings or nature. The tip of the iceberg as you will.
The most important thing about nature and how it inspires me, is not just the beauty of it but the feelings that it invokes. Picture this, standing in the middle of the forest no cars nearby and you just close your eyes and just listen to the symphony that is nature. It all starts with the wind as it blows through the trees causing them to crack quietly as they sway with its motion, jostling the leaves that make a soft rustling sound. Now we move on to the chirping of the birds in the trees as they speak and sing to each other, as you hear the occasional flap of wings as a bird moves from tree to tree glancing down at the strange creature below them with a silly smile on their face eyes closed, face turned up to the sky (yeah that's a pretty picture I know). Then beneath the sounds above you hear the jostling of the shrubs and bushes at your feet, the murmur of crickets, the croaking of frogs and perhaps if you are lucky you can hear the sound of a deer crashing through the brush fallen twigs breaking beneath their hooves. The base of this symphony of course is the sound of the burbling of a nearby creek as it fluidly slides across the rocks and pebbles that make up its floor. That is just an example of what I picture in my mind when it comes to nature and there are many more scenes I can see in my head.
When I designed my webpage, I had that image in my mind as I worked to put it all together. I was looking for a clean and fresh theme for my webpage and nature seemed to fit the bill perfectly. The basis of the design itself is the fact that there are no straight lines in nature and that is reflected in the design of the tree and the leaves and the owl perched on the branches. The circles that make up the bottom of the website are pretty much representative of the fact that nature is a never ending cycle. The straight lines that do exist on the webpage are quite simply a connection to the man made world where we are capable of straight lines even though we ourselves come from nature.
I will leave off here with a suggestion. The next time your stuck in artist's block go stand in a park and let nature inspire you. In my next post I will go over my next inspiration, weddings.
So the first thing that tends to inspire me is nature. Ever since I was a baby about 1 or 2 months old, I have been going camping with my parents. Also for about 13 years I was also a part of Girl Guides of Canada. So that means a real up close relationship with the world around me. It is quite fascinating how much really is in this natural world. The colours that I associate with nature are blue (lakes, oceans, the sky, rain and water) and green (leaves, trees, grass, shrubs, any other kind of greenery). It was nature that inspired my latest portfolio design and the newest comic creature, Mr. Owl.
Now as much as I love green and blue, I also love flowers and by golly nature is full of flowers in so many colours and shades that there is an endless array of colour combinations. Lets not forget that said flowers also come in many shapes and sizes as well. One must truly see the complex structures of nature's treasures and scientists are only just getting to know the inner workings or nature. The tip of the iceberg as you will.
The most important thing about nature and how it inspires me, is not just the beauty of it but the feelings that it invokes. Picture this, standing in the middle of the forest no cars nearby and you just close your eyes and just listen to the symphony that is nature. It all starts with the wind as it blows through the trees causing them to crack quietly as they sway with its motion, jostling the leaves that make a soft rustling sound. Now we move on to the chirping of the birds in the trees as they speak and sing to each other, as you hear the occasional flap of wings as a bird moves from tree to tree glancing down at the strange creature below them with a silly smile on their face eyes closed, face turned up to the sky (yeah that's a pretty picture I know). Then beneath the sounds above you hear the jostling of the shrubs and bushes at your feet, the murmur of crickets, the croaking of frogs and perhaps if you are lucky you can hear the sound of a deer crashing through the brush fallen twigs breaking beneath their hooves. The base of this symphony of course is the sound of the burbling of a nearby creek as it fluidly slides across the rocks and pebbles that make up its floor. That is just an example of what I picture in my mind when it comes to nature and there are many more scenes I can see in my head.
When I designed my webpage, I had that image in my mind as I worked to put it all together. I was looking for a clean and fresh theme for my webpage and nature seemed to fit the bill perfectly. The basis of the design itself is the fact that there are no straight lines in nature and that is reflected in the design of the tree and the leaves and the owl perched on the branches. The circles that make up the bottom of the website are pretty much representative of the fact that nature is a never ending cycle. The straight lines that do exist on the webpage are quite simply a connection to the man made world where we are capable of straight lines even though we ourselves come from nature.
I will leave off here with a suggestion. The next time your stuck in artist's block go stand in a park and let nature inspire you. In my next post I will go over my next inspiration, weddings.
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Status update
Hello everyone,
It is now time for a status update. So I have put up the two remaining photographs onto my website. I was slightly delayed in putting them up as I was designing a PDF portfolio for a few job postings. Now that they are done I will start working on the other projects I have in the works, including the image of Lord Kirrath that I am currently illustrating in Adobe Illustrator.
I will keep you all posted as to my progress in my work. As for my organized workspace, it is definitely working good for me and I feel a lot more productive. Organization is a great way to be productive.
That is all for now. Enjoy that lovely rainy weather we have going on and here's to the sun coming back soon.
It is now time for a status update. So I have put up the two remaining photographs onto my website. I was slightly delayed in putting them up as I was designing a PDF portfolio for a few job postings. Now that they are done I will start working on the other projects I have in the works, including the image of Lord Kirrath that I am currently illustrating in Adobe Illustrator.
I will keep you all posted as to my progress in my work. As for my organized workspace, it is definitely working good for me and I feel a lot more productive. Organization is a great way to be productive.
That is all for now. Enjoy that lovely rainy weather we have going on and here's to the sun coming back soon.
Friday, 24 May 2013
Ochiba~Con Poster and spring cleaning progress
Hello again my friends. Yet again it is a sunny yet cool day and I again have an update on the Ochiba~Con poster. I have posted it on my website www.andreapalmerdesign.com and i have also posted it on my DeviantArt account, tweeted it a few days ago and put a link to it in my LinkedIn account. http://alleria855.deviantart.com/art/Maple-372444832. So now that it is complete it is now time to get back to editing my two photographs for the website and get back to my latest illustrator project.
As for the spring cleaning, it is also now complete and things are much better organized and there is more space and it will be a much better work space for me.
As for the spring cleaning, it is also now complete and things are much better organized and there is more space and it will be a much better work space for me.
Monday, 13 May 2013
Spring Cleaning and Ochiba~Con Poster Design
Hello my friends and here we are again. It is a lovely sunny day bit on the cool side but not bad. The Ochiba~Con poster and postcard is done and once I am sure it has been finalized I will be posting it on my facebook page and my website with proper credit and copyright disclaimers. One must never forget copyright disclaimers.
Along with my job search I have also been doing a bit of reorganization and some spring cleaning. Having a proper clean and organized workspace is important when it comes to working and designing and I have been checking out a few video blogs that have been giving me a few ideas on how to better organize. So I hope to have all that done in a few weeks.
That is all for now.
Along with my job search I have also been doing a bit of reorganization and some spring cleaning. Having a proper clean and organized workspace is important when it comes to working and designing and I have been checking out a few video blogs that have been giving me a few ideas on how to better organize. So I hope to have all that done in a few weeks.
That is all for now.
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Ochiba~Con pro bono project
A few days ago a friend of mine told me she was in need of a graphic designer to design some advertising posters and postcards for her Ochiba~Con convention.
"Ochiba~Con is an annual Japanese culture and anime convention held in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, enriching the local community by providing education on Japanese Culture Arts and Films through specific events. Ochiba~Con is a division of Northern Anime Festival"
Work is going real well on the project, however I have had to put my personal projects on hold until the work is done. If you are interested in checking out the convention check it out here. http://www.ochibacon.ca/
"Ochiba~Con is an annual Japanese culture and anime convention held in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, enriching the local community by providing education on Japanese Culture Arts and Films through specific events. Ochiba~Con is a division of Northern Anime Festival"
Work is going real well on the project, however I have had to put my personal projects on hold until the work is done. If you are interested in checking out the convention check it out here. http://www.ochibacon.ca/
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