Happy Halloween at The Electric Keychain

I am so excited to announce my new project, The Electric Keychain! We are a group of illustrators who want to create art together. For our Halloween launch date, we made costumed self-portraits. You will periodically find new work from us. We are also open to work from contributors, so, you'll also find work by many more artists!

We also have a Facebook fan page and a Twitter account @Electric_Key. Tweets by Sherbert the shocked sheep.

I absolutely wanted to include a book in my portrait and after a wonderful suggestion from Jackie, figured a witch hat would fit right in. Witches have spell books, right?

To follow the keychain theme, we also made it optional to have a key in the portrait and I definitely wanted one.

While working on this piece, I suddenly became very excited about the project since I only had the opportunity to celebrate Halloween about 3 times in my life back in Costa Rica, the last time being 2nd grade. After 2nd grade, there was a sudden, country-wide rejection of Halloween and people just sort of stopped dressing up and widely giving out candy. Since then, I sorely missed Halloween but working on this project felt like celebrating it in spirit. Happy Halloween!

Ilógica - Illogical

Illustrating on a theme.

A friend pointed out the center of the chandelier looks like an almond.

Discovery of Pluto

This illu is based on an article about the history behind the discovery of Pluto. Basically Pluto was discovered pretty much on a whim and by sheer luck, just like pin-pointing any one of those white dots and suddenly realizing, heeey it's a new planet in the Solar System! Hence why the telescope isn't focusing on anything specific.

 Sometimes I think if I were good at math and hadn't wanted to be an artist I would've wanted to be an astronomer.

They Draw and Travel Savannah Map

Some time ago I found out about They Draw and Cook, a website where artists post illustrated recipes. Soon after I also found their sister site, They Draw and Travel (TDAT), a website where artists post illustrated maps of sorts.

So I decided to make my own map and what better place to make it about than Savannah?

The map is also up on TDAT!

Blues Train Remix

Ch-ch ch-ch ch-ch choo choo.

Couple of updates:
One: Have a Twitter? I have a Twitter! Follow my tweets @tati_dengo 
Two: I have signed up to participate in The Sketchbook Project 2012! So I shall be sharing some pages once I receive it and I can get started.

So I re-made my Guitar Train illustration since I wasn't pleased with how it came out the first time. And now I am!

New York Trip 2011

Last week I had the pleasure of going on a trip to NYC with a small group of illustrators from SCAD led by Julie Lieberman.

We met people from all ends of illustration, advertising, editorial, book, artist reps, magazines, newspapers and made some new friends!

Here's a run-down of some of the places we went to. I highly recommend that check these out too if you're in NYC and interested in illustration:

To avoid criticism...

So I just graduated from SCAD (woo!) I will be going to NYC next week and meeting some art directors and illustrators (can't wait!) But before I go, here's a new illustration: