2019 Bags

Tomorrow we depart for the yearly trip to the Redwoods. I'm still carrying on a family tradition from my Grandmother, who made little "treat bags" for all of us grand kids for long car drives. Last year's bags (and links to previous years) here. This year I didn't make designs totally from scratch, but I did do custom tweaks to existing designs.

For Isabel, I took the firefly luciferin molecules, made them very small, and in an aqua-violet color scheme. For Emmett, I tweaked the colors of the Norse eagle/hawk to be more blue/cool (in a color temperature sense, not a hipness sense). For Bruce, I took the geology design and removed everything but the volcanoes and colored it orange. For James, I tweaked the rhinos to be more green. And for Eddie, the large-scale alphabet design, scaled down and turned red.

Cat tree

For the "cats" theme, my spouse suggested a repeat of cat towers, so I drew that and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out:



This was fun to draw! It actually did pretty well, ending up in the top 100. My favorite was the colorful cats in boxes.

Dinosaur skulls

So to follow up last week's dogs, for the "dinosaur" theme I did t-rex skulls using the same set of colors.



 

The colors don't work nearly as well with negative space in between! I'm pretty happy with how the lineart turned out, though. My favorite was the painted parasaurolophuses.