FREE Digital Portraits!

The $20 Digital Portraits have been showing up in some good places lately, thanks to some generous magazines and blogs. Thank you to everyone who's been spreading the word about the portraits, and inviting people to the Facebook group.

Keep your eyes on 21st & Ivy and the UVU Review in the next week or two, for a chance to win a free Digital Portrait!

$20 Holiday Portraits

Need a fun and unique Christmas/holiday gift?

$20 DIGITAL HOLIDAY PORTRAITS

From now until November 25, I'll be taking orders for $20 Digital Portraits. Using a photo of your choice, I'll draw and color a picture of you (or your person of choice) on the computer. I'll give you an 8.5x11", 300 dpi, CMYK, print-ready file that you can hang up on the wall, or use as a profile pic, or whatever. (See pictures on wall for examples)

HOW DO I GET ONE?
1) Send 1 or 2 pictures of yourself to jess.smiley@gmail.com
2) Tell me your favorite animal and/or colors (really!)
3) I'll start your portrait once you've put $20 into my paypal account (I'll email directions).

Check the Facebook page if you have any questions, or send me a message: jess.smiley@gmail.com

Thanks!

Digital Portraits II: With A Vengeance

Here are some more digital portraits I've been working on. I know you didn't ask to see 'em, but here they are...

$20 Portraits

I'm saving up to get a new printer/scanner/copier, so that I can make prints and better pictures. So...

From July 27-August 10, I'll be offering digital portraits for only $20. Here's how it works: 1) Send 1 or 2 pictures of yourself to jess.smiley@gmail.com 2) Tell me your favorite animal and/or colors (really!) 3) I'll start your portrait once you've put $20 into my paypal account (I'll email directions). What you get: an 8.5 x 11", CMYK, 300 dpi printable portrait, and a profile pic-sized version. Check out the Facebook group here.

***If you just want a small portrait for your profile pic, I'll do it for free, but paying orders will take priority.

Portraits

Here are some digital portraits I've made. I can't help but think of early cameras and the way projectors were used in early paintings, casting moving images on the dark walls of a room. I like using a solid color in the background, with line drawings of mountains, clouds, trees, etc. Do you need a portrait? Let me know.

Dear Summer

I've been toying around with this Bamboo tablet from Wacom---something I thought I'd never do---and I'm having a good time. This is my first comic made entirely with a tablet, for Snippets magazine.

Self-Portrait (Blanket Magazine)

Blanket Magazine was kind enough to invite me to contribute to their Portrait Issue (out today!) and asked me to make a self-portrait just for them. (I guess I cheated, though, 'cause I kinda made it for me, too). 

How rad is this cover? They include the image as a free wallpaper in the magazine and they also include another wallpaper and font that come as a package. Very cool. 

It's been a while since I consciously made a self-portrait and it was a fun project. I haven't done much with digital imagery, so I designed my portrait in Illustrator. It was fun enough that I just might make some more pictures like this...

In other news: 

>Thursday, June 4: Free concert at Gurus in Provo from 8-10pm

>Friday, June 5: Exhibit of my newest series of drawings "New Mistakes" at the Utah Arts Alliance Gallery in SLC, 6-9pm (music by James Barlow and more pictures by Gheybin Comish and Patric Bates)

>Saturday, June 6: 1-hour concert at Wheeler Farm as part of "Farm Days", with Andy Bean, Mitch Parker, and Jordan Hix