Lil' Devils

 Little drawings that I did for our local American legion. :)

 

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(c) Lara Geltz 2013

Alligator Sketches

These are some ideas for a Children's book that I will be illustrating for a friend. It will have lots of animals in it! So fun!

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So I have a Children's Book...

This last semester, as a few of you know, I took a class about the creation and publication of a children's book. Now, we weren't asked to finish it, but I figured I would.

Children's books are generally around 32 pages, mine is a smaller version (12 pages), since I just wanted it as a finished product and possibly to show it off to publishers. I am pretty happy that I finished it, and my instructor mentioned that I was ready to start creating children's books (pretty exciting huh?)!

Anyway, the exciting part is that I digitally put it together myself, and it is ready to buy! I bought one and fixed any of the problems that I saw and I was really surprised with the quality! :)

Here is the link if anyone is interested: Click here :)

Fruits of Summer

A fun little doodle I did because I needed a brain break.

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Gretta the Gardenting Rhino

While Gretta wallows in the dirt and mud, she usually ends up gardening as well.

Watercolor on sketch paper + photoshop.

 

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The art from the last week of school.

I never posted the last two or so assignments it seems! Well here they are for your enjoyment. :)

The Przewalski Horse aka, the wild Mongolian Horse. It was a fun one, by far the easiest for me to paint.

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I'm back!

I was gone for a couple weeks due to family happenings (college graduations and family reunions). But I'm back and I desire to upload some more art and catch up. :)

Here is my Pig Buffalo creature..

I wasn't sure what I was thinking when I made this. I didn't use any references, just the knowledge I had from my past classes. It was done in the car while on my 2,400 mile road trip across a couple states, so don't ask! XD



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This turned out completely different from how it started. I used masking fluid and then painted over it with watercolor, I then finished it in photoshop.

Kinda pretty, kinda dreamy. I'm usually not so girly, but sometimes I need it. 


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Canadian Lynx

 

 

 

 

 

A painting for class my Wildlife  Illustration class.
He can't even see the snowshoe hare behind him. I think it's pretty funny. :3
 

(c) Lara Geltz

 

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Candadian Lynx Ren Faire Dancer

Lyra the Lynx loves to go to Renaissance Faire's! She loves the old world feeling and people there. Her favorite thing to do is dance and perform for people, sometimes she fire raves when the faires are held during the night.

My Canadian Lynx character. Their paws are in fact that large, they work well in winter - kind of like snow shoes.

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George the Go-all-out Gecko

My gecko window washer (with a mustache, lol).

Even though he might occasionally lick the glass, satisfaction is guaranteed!

 

..And my painting. :)

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A friend that has some fun stuff!! : SM[art]inez: Project Animal Ink #1

SM[art]inez: Project Animal Ink #1: A little personal project of mines with no direction. I just draw what I feel or like, which I just love it's like a little escape from ...

Maned Wolf Painting

Done for class. I could spend 20 more hours on this, but it just needs to be done.

Yes, Maned Wolves have very gangly looking bodies and they are very hairy.
Interesting fact: the Maned wolf isn't actually a wolf and it isn't closely related to any dog species.

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Digital watercolor practice, I want to see if I can get good/ comfortable enough to do this for full illustrations.

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Yuè the Moon Bear Chef

Yuè was a circus bear in Asia before he was given an opportunity to achieve his dream job, which was to be a chef. He has only wished to please others and to make them happy, to him it doesn’t matter if it’s with his dancing or wonderful food!

This is an Asian Black Bear or Moon Bear, as they are nicknamed after the white "moon" on their chest. They are often captured in Asia for their bile and for circus acts to impress tourists.

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Looking on in Arrogance

 

 

  "The old bullfrog was king of the entire empire. He sat upon a toadstool throne commanding his subjects, several toads and a few lizards. One lizard lord approached with a scroll, which he began to read, as the king looked on in arrogance."

A very busy week, as always, I would have done more, but for the time we had, I am pretty pleased.

EDIT: I fixed what my teacher had critiqued. He also said that this could go into my portfolio, I'm so happy! In my 4 years at college, that has never been said to me before! I might clean it up some more, but yay!


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ConDUCKtor!

A little sketch I did while drawing characters for my Children's book.

Chinese runner duck.


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Board Book Images!

These were some sample ideas of kids books pages ranging for ages 0-3.

My teacher really didn't like the third one. (ha!)

 "P" is for Parrot

 "1, 2, 3"

 "U" is for Unicorn

My second collage..

came out way better than my first in my opinion!

I really like this. It took a long time to put together, but I'm happy I did it!

Eric Carle style Collage Owl

This was reated for my Children's book class. We had to create a collage like Eric Carle (the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar) does for his books. It was fun! I'm going to do something more fantasy and brightly colored on the next one.

Used: tracing paper, colored pencil, markers, acrylic paint, scissors, and glue.

Seahorse Othographic Worksheet

I am taking a Wildlife Ill. class, we must research and illustrate a new creature each week. This week I chose to do a Potbelly Seahorse. :)

 How fun! :)

Animal Antomy

I took an animal anatomy class last semester and never went through my 300 or so drawings. Here are just a few to start.

A woman brought in her greyhounds, they are really cute. Their faces straight on are the silliest things ever.

We went to the Oakland Zoo in my animal anatomy class, it was really fun and I got some great sketches! Sorry for the watermark, people love to steal art.

Funny story, the giraffes and antelope were in the same enclosure. Well I caught a giraffe kicking one out of its way, like full on kick. Dang, right?

Theses are all sketched in about 20 mins or less.

Fluttershy

Yes, I watch My Little Pony, don't think you'll like it? Just give it a chance.

 I drew this at an arts and crafts fair. Drawn with prismacolors and cleaned up with photoshop.

Mlp and Fluttershy belong to Hasbro/the Hub/Lauren Faust.

Some of my Inspirations

As of right now, these are some of of the artists that I highly look up to. The list could probably be around 100 people, but I'm really starting to focus on animal anatomy, story telling, and traditional media, and these three guys have/ had this down pat! 

I would really love to see who my friends and inspirations are inspired by, that's often how you find some new and really amazing artists!

Cute Little Spring Birds

A good night post, feeling a bit sad, I drew something that would cheer me up! I've been looking at children's books to get ready for my upcoming class, I couldn't help it!

Children's Book Art?

The prospects of becoming a Children's book Artist are better than ever!

The more people I speak with, the more opportunities I find for me to expand my horizons with options such as self publishing, or just creating books in general. With the help of my friends that have these wonderful talents of writing and creating stories, I feel that whomever I pair up with, it will be a great venture.

I've always been the artist that sketches a lot, that sketches random things. I don't have a character to draw and I have little to no ideas of my own. I'm proud to say that I have been creating small characters here and there (example above) for myself and to show that I have the capability to do it.