Commissions

Porcelain Parker

Artist:

Elise Cade

Digital References:

William Dean

This Commission was created as a memorial for Parker. Drawn with a blue micron pen.

The finished piece.

3D pattern reference created in Blender.

Here you can see the full 3D model with bones (the grey pyramids), reference images, and camera.

This pattern was pulled from the mug below, manipulated with photo editing software to remove the roundness and perspective and edited to be tileable. This image depicts 9 tiles.

The circle pattern was easier to create from scratch, here are 9 tiles of the finished image.

This pattern was created using Inkscape; a vector editing program. You can see the final tile image in the transparent grey rectangle.

The commissioner sent us a picture of her mug.

Our reference image of Parker

Another patterned mug.

Pepper

Artist:

Elise Cade

Pepper's portrait was commissioned as a gift for our clients daughter for Christmas.

Planning the triple portrait in a landscape format with the ribbon turned out great!

Alien Cat Plant

Artist:

Elise Cade

Our Friend Les asked Elise for a mandala with cats and eyeballs. This piece is done using colored pencils.

Cats and eyeballs she got.

Bodhisattva

Artist:

Elise Cade

Editing:

William Dean

A Bodhisattva is a being in Buddhism who forgoes their own enlightenment to help others achieve it. This piece was done as a tattoo design. The final image needed to be more vertical than the very round reference picture, because of the tattoos placement. By the way, the Bodhisattva is riding a lion. I can only imagine the conversation: "IDK It looks like a dog with a lot of wavy orange hair."

The Finished Drawing.

A for-print edit.

The line work edited to be totaly black and white.

Linework only

Linework without the background

The Inspiration.

Bilbo Huskins

Artist:

Elise Cade

Editing:

William Dean

Publishing:

William Dean

A friend asked us to make stickers of her dog: a husky named Bilbo. Elise Came up with 4 illustrations that we liked!

The print file for the completed sticker sheet.

The vector file, for die cutting.

Images with the backgrounds removed, and colors adjusted for printing.

Sometimes when the image has a lot of white, it is easier to create the die cut shape from a silhouette.

Elise's original drawings

The other original drawing. As you can see there was a possible 5th design, but we already had more designs than we needed.

Charlie

Artist:

Elise Cade

The first pet portrait with multiple illustrations of the same dog. Charlie really liked tennis balls. This picture is done with colored pencil and a little water color.

The finished Drawing.

Progress picture. you can see some of the unlayered pencil.

Another Progress Picture.

The initial sketch.

Elle

Artist:

Elise Cade

Collage:

Elise Cade

Framing:

William Dean

Chris wanted a nice portrait of his Mom's dog to give to his Mom as a gift. Elise created this beautiful piece using colored pencil, collaged onto handmade decorative paper.

Completed piece, matted and framed by Will.

Elise and her completed work.

Finished drawing still on its original sheet.

You can see the raw single layer color pencil on the body in this picture.

Those eyes shine!

Reference picture.