<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492</id><updated>2011-08-16T11:37:03.333-07:00</updated><category term='Sketchbook'/><category term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>April May Illustration</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-1541305841200429949</id><published>2011-01-18T04:32:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-18T04:39:22.524-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Postcard 2010 (and potentially 2011)!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TTWJSL-x8sI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/-_36UIC9a40/s1600/Christmasfinal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563503860232876738" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TTWJSL-x8sI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/-_36UIC9a40/s400/Christmasfinal.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The 2010 Christmas Postcard! Considering I have about 400 copies left (Not exagerating) this will probably be my 2011 Postcard aswell. I may sell them in batches for people who'd like to use them aswell.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-1541305841200429949?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1541305841200429949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1541305841200429949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2011/01/christmas-postcard-2010-and-potentially.html' title='Christmas Postcard 2010 (and potentially 2011)!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TTWJSL-x8sI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/-_36UIC9a40/s72-c/Christmasfinal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-8329020919130279150</id><published>2010-11-18T09:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-18T09:07:10.859-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Characters and a Sketch!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TOVdAa0CNGI/AAAAAAAAAQs/D9btoPxYQBM/s1600/timsketch1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 340px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540937178328216674" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TOVdAa0CNGI/AAAAAAAAAQs/D9btoPxYQBM/s400/timsketch1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TOVc__WIRGI/AAAAAAAAAQk/7_WwxjA4C6I/s1600/NewCartersample3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 135px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540937170955027554" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TOVc__WIRGI/AAAAAAAAAQk/7_WwxjA4C6I/s400/NewCartersample3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Sketching and vectoring today!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-8329020919130279150?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/8329020919130279150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/8329020919130279150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/11/characters-and-sketch.html' title='Characters and a Sketch!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TOVdAa0CNGI/AAAAAAAAAQs/D9btoPxYQBM/s72-c/timsketch1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-2175487473595996087</id><published>2010-10-15T05:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-21T05:47:09.547-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fun Colors!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TMA2Ql1_JcI/AAAAAAAAAQc/hfGCiKiIBa4/s1600/NewCartersample2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530480001075324354" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TMA2Ql1_JcI/AAAAAAAAAQc/hfGCiKiIBa4/s400/NewCartersample2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TLhEqatBTPI/AAAAAAAAAQU/ShQ2u0WM5m4/s1600/NewCartersample.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 348px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 348px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528244038110629106" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TLhEqatBTPI/AAAAAAAAAQU/ShQ2u0WM5m4/s400/NewCartersample.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Some fun characters from the sketchbook!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-2175487473595996087?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/2175487473595996087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/2175487473595996087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/10/fun-colors.html' title='Fun Colors!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TMA2Ql1_JcI/AAAAAAAAAQc/hfGCiKiIBa4/s72-c/NewCartersample2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-1275271003919345257</id><published>2010-09-13T17:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-13T17:59:53.082-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Some Baby Characters!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TI7I0-Wj9DI/AAAAAAAAAQM/UYe9WEYTbaE/s1600/BabySamp2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 287px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516567405991818290" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TI7I0-Wj9DI/AAAAAAAAAQM/UYe9WEYTbaE/s400/BabySamp2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TI7I0YcB2lI/AAAAAAAAAQE/bCaRK9kcdX4/s1600/BabySamp1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 380px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516567395814201938" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TI7I0YcB2lI/AAAAAAAAAQE/bCaRK9kcdX4/s400/BabySamp1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Some baby characters! Playing more with just shapes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-1275271003919345257?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1275271003919345257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1275271003919345257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/09/some-baby-characters.html' title='Some Baby Characters!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TI7I0-Wj9DI/AAAAAAAAAQM/UYe9WEYTbaE/s72-c/BabySamp2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-322521722258828813</id><published>2010-08-27T12:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-01T21:24:20.366-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hurray for Flowers!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8mfNcqj9I/AAAAAAAAAPk/rsT6REFaalY/s1600/floralsamp5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 360px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 360px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512166786552467410" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8mfNcqj9I/AAAAAAAAAPk/rsT6REFaalY/s400/floralsamp5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8me7LQ-mI/AAAAAAAAAPc/mS-tphc7bm0/s1600/floralsamp4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 360px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 360px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512166781647649378" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8me7LQ-mI/AAAAAAAAAPc/mS-tphc7bm0/s400/floralsamp4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8mem5zGII/AAAAAAAAAPU/Ykql1l31Xu0/s1600/floralsamp3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 360px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 360px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512166776205678722" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8mem5zGII/AAAAAAAAAPU/Ykql1l31Xu0/s400/floralsamp3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8meI4N2XI/AAAAAAAAAPM/bV7Z08oSrec/s1600/floralsamp2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 360px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 360px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512166768145979762" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8meI4N2XI/AAAAAAAAAPM/bV7Z08oSrec/s400/floralsamp2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8mdyUSyXI/AAAAAAAAAPE/D77xQtVkhIE/s1600/floralsamp1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 360px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 360px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512166762089728370" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8mdyUSyXI/AAAAAAAAAPE/D77xQtVkhIE/s400/floralsamp1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Some florals I've been working on!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-322521722258828813?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/322521722258828813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/322521722258828813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/08/hurray-for-flowers.html' title='Hurray for Flowers!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TH8mfNcqj9I/AAAAAAAAAPk/rsT6REFaalY/s72-c/floralsamp5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-4906442575726629206</id><published>2010-08-24T12:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-24T13:01:10.551-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dancing Squirrel!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/THQkvRsS0-I/AAAAAAAAAOs/HFDgGk7THYU/s1600/simplesamp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 355px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509068638802596834" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/THQkvRsS0-I/AAAAAAAAAOs/HFDgGk7THYU/s400/simplesamp.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Going for a simpler, younger style. Something about little critters dancing with baked goods makes me happy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-4906442575726629206?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/4906442575726629206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/4906442575726629206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/08/dancing-squirrel.html' title='Dancing Squirrel!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/THQkvRsS0-I/AAAAAAAAAOs/HFDgGk7THYU/s72-c/simplesamp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-3245423187181210383</id><published>2010-08-18T22:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-18T22:39:37.984-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A couple more patterns!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TGzC55H4VlI/AAAAAAAAAOk/nkKM68Nsgkw/s1600/forweb2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506990744209479250" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TGzC55H4VlI/AAAAAAAAAOk/nkKM68Nsgkw/s400/forweb2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TGzC5l0w8FI/AAAAAAAAAOc/qG5wzzzFv1M/s1600/forweb1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506990739029028946" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TGzC5l0w8FI/AAAAAAAAAOc/qG5wzzzFv1M/s400/forweb1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; A couples prints, going to go back and do more characters, play around a bit. Been keeping my sketchbook on me all the time now so I can catch silly ideas before they get away!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-3245423187181210383?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/3245423187181210383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/3245423187181210383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/08/couple-more-patterns.html' title='A couple more patterns!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TGzC55H4VlI/AAAAAAAAAOk/nkKM68Nsgkw/s72-c/forweb2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-422168443667277831</id><published>2010-08-03T08:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T08:40:50.170-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Marine Life!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TFg3s0zUWdI/AAAAAAAAAOU/OzK4MN9kFdY/s1600/jcartersexample.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 399px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501208188060719570" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TFg3s0zUWdI/AAAAAAAAAOU/OzK4MN9kFdY/s400/jcartersexample.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected"&gt;Ridiculously&lt;/span&gt; happy marine life! Huzzah!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-422168443667277831?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/422168443667277831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/422168443667277831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/08/happy-marine-life.html' title='Happy Marine Life!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TFg3s0zUWdI/AAAAAAAAAOU/OzK4MN9kFdY/s72-c/jcartersexample.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-5866869905179036574</id><published>2010-07-27T20:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-27T20:38:42.945-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sketchy Safari Animals!</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 399px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498795883694856866" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TE-luOwDGqI/AAAAAAAAAOM/tjFVC19FIsU/s400/Carter8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TE-lt0PNbqI/AAAAAAAAAOE/IXH3M2HHNyg/s1600/Carter7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498795876577799842" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TE-lt0PNbqI/AAAAAAAAAOE/IXH3M2HHNyg/s400/Carter7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;More sketchy stuff!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-5866869905179036574?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/5866869905179036574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/5866869905179036574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/07/sketchy-safari-animals.html' title='Sketchy Safari Animals!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TE-luOwDGqI/AAAAAAAAAOM/tjFVC19FIsU/s72-c/Carter8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-4526134217183094089</id><published>2010-07-24T12:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-24T12:35:13.188-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cute Woodland Animals!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TEs_pyIRCII/AAAAAAAAAN0/_S4pn0QGpuY/s1600/Carter6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497557757199452290" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TEs_pyIRCII/AAAAAAAAAN0/_S4pn0QGpuY/s400/Carter6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Playing with a more sketchy scribbley style. I'm becoming more comfortable switching from smooth, rounded edges to a scribbley, less defined style. Putting together sets to start playing with more patterns.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-4526134217183094089?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/4526134217183094089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/4526134217183094089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/07/cute-woodland-animals.html' title='Cute Woodland Animals!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TEs_pyIRCII/AAAAAAAAAN0/_S4pn0QGpuY/s72-c/Carter6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-8934964394086430109</id><published>2010-07-22T10:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-22T10:11:01.259-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Polar Bears and a Monster(?)!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TEh7IzYwGcI/AAAAAAAAANs/5rPB2Vrx6x0/s1600/Carter5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 171px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496778736368884162" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TEh7IzYwGcI/AAAAAAAAANs/5rPB2Vrx6x0/s400/Carter5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; More playing with characters! Trying some different ideas and shapes, I've found I like doing monsters because I don't have to worry about them being recognized as something, more characters to come!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-8934964394086430109?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/8934964394086430109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/8934964394086430109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/07/polar-bears-and-monster.html' title='Polar Bears and a Monster(?)!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TEh7IzYwGcI/AAAAAAAAANs/5rPB2Vrx6x0/s72-c/Carter5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-6466488813006185149</id><published>2010-07-19T09:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T09:37:16.634-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Bird Prints!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TER-hf_qrXI/AAAAAAAAANk/jNUtwUbzFko/s1600/jcarterspattern1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495656559288167794" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TER-hf_qrXI/AAAAAAAAANk/jNUtwUbzFko/s400/jcarterspattern1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TER-g5XGvsI/AAAAAAAAANc/WHZbtxVylCk/s1600/Jcarterspattern2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495656548917493442" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TER-g5XGvsI/AAAAAAAAANc/WHZbtxVylCk/s400/Jcarterspattern2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Some prints I've been working on...they've been kind of a challenge, but fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-6466488813006185149?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/6466488813006185149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/6466488813006185149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/07/prints.html' title='Bird Prints!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TER-hf_qrXI/AAAAAAAAANk/jNUtwUbzFko/s72-c/jcarterspattern1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-816655121087607175</id><published>2010-06-15T12:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-18T07:34:45.495-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Some Cute!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBuD8bjLWbI/AAAAAAAAANU/P5KfovoDS_U/s1600/Carter4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 171px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484122045464402354" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBuD8bjLWbI/AAAAAAAAANU/P5KfovoDS_U/s400/Carter4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBfPqv0YpCI/AAAAAAAAANM/Dro4-qC1FsM/s1600/Carter3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 174px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483079404644508706" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBfPqv0YpCI/AAAAAAAAANM/Dro4-qC1FsM/s400/Carter3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Some cutesy characters I played with today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-816655121087607175?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/816655121087607175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/816655121087607175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/06/some-cute.html' title='Some Cute!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBuD8bjLWbI/AAAAAAAAANU/P5KfovoDS_U/s72-c/Carter4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-1698976993354704252</id><published>2010-06-15T11:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-15T11:59:15.173-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Houses!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBfNNCD2C9I/AAAAAAAAANE/7AqaOlonv48/s1600/Housesketchweb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483076695121857490" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBfNNCD2C9I/AAAAAAAAANE/7AqaOlonv48/s400/Housesketchweb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBfNMgLEUTI/AAAAAAAAAM8/nsQzZjPSjzU/s1600/House2sketchweb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 195px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483076686025347378" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBfNMgLEUTI/AAAAAAAAAM8/nsQzZjPSjzU/s400/House2sketchweb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; A couple quick sketches, going to make copies and play with ink! Might turn these into something fun (thinking creepy overgrown/grungy houses).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-1698976993354704252?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1698976993354704252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1698976993354704252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/06/houses.html' title='Houses!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBfNNCD2C9I/AAAAAAAAANE/7AqaOlonv48/s72-c/Housesketchweb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-7049418531188798805</id><published>2010-06-14T17:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T17:41:07.529-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Loon!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBbLYy0EitI/AAAAAAAAAM0/FYWguoAvAkA/s1600/loonsemi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 285px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482793223187630802" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBbLYy0EitI/AAAAAAAAAM0/FYWguoAvAkA/s400/loonsemi.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I need to actually place him somewhere, thinking I'm going to play with some brush textures in illustrator and make some grass.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-7049418531188798805?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/7049418531188798805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/7049418531188798805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2010/06/loon.html' title='Loon!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/TBbLYy0EitI/AAAAAAAAAM0/FYWguoAvAkA/s72-c/loonsemi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-7362130582504970334</id><published>2009-12-27T07:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T09:37:40.328-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Children's Clothing!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/S0TJlq7WtYI/AAAAAAAAAMs/zGRaVex2guY/s1600-h/minicarters8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 284px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423681500276503938" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/S0TJlq7WtYI/AAAAAAAAAMs/zGRaVex2guY/s400/minicarters8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 219px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423681485898230290" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/S0TJk1XTqhI/AAAAAAAAAMc/R52DujAVeGc/s400/minicarters4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 324px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423681493476621042" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/S0TJlRmIuvI/AAAAAAAAAMk/qhn_1h95MFk/s400/minicarters6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/S0TJkCFxscI/AAAAAAAAAMM/h5E8fO-5KVw/s1600-h/minicarters1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 311px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423681472134492610" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/S0TJkCFxscI/AAAAAAAAAMM/h5E8fO-5KVw/s400/minicarters1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-7362130582504970334?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/7362130582504970334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/7362130582504970334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2009/12/childrens-clothing.html' title='Children&apos;s Clothing!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/S0TJlq7WtYI/AAAAAAAAAMs/zGRaVex2guY/s72-c/minicarters8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-240338789333318506</id><published>2009-08-24T12:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-24T19:13:31.368-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Quick Sketches!</title><content type='html'>A couple flowers...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIR5e8wsI/AAAAAAAAAKc/2Nd14TUEHxA/s1600-h/Sketch2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373718252708741826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 316px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIR5e8wsI/AAAAAAAAAKc/2Nd14TUEHxA/s400/Sketch2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIRnC3qmI/AAAAAAAAAKU/Db_O1x9gtHQ/s1600-h/Sketch1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373718247759129186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 210px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIRnC3qmI/AAAAAAAAAKU/Db_O1x9gtHQ/s400/Sketch1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As well as some sketches from around Ave Maria&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIRWNSKaI/AAAAAAAAAKM/gO8NDV8rX4M/s1600-h/Sketch3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373718243239405986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIRWNSKaI/AAAAAAAAAKM/gO8NDV8rX4M/s400/Sketch3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIQx9_mNI/AAAAAAAAAKE/exQAUfUQcsc/s1600-h/Sketch4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373718233511598290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 262px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIQx9_mNI/AAAAAAAAAKE/exQAUfUQcsc/s400/Sketch4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIQi5MxXI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/VFDIUMfXxOo/s1600-h/Sketch5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373718229464958322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 295px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIQi5MxXI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/VFDIUMfXxOo/s400/Sketch5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-240338789333318506?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/240338789333318506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/240338789333318506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2009/08/quick-sketches.html' title='Quick Sketches!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SpNIR5e8wsI/AAAAAAAAAKc/2Nd14TUEHxA/s72-c/Sketch2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-1819209962396686523</id><published>2009-03-04T19:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-04T20:07:06.315-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Edith The Alien!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;This a piece that got into the Sci-Fi show that will be going up soon, done in acrylic which I'm actually interested in doing more of. There's also some sketches.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thumbnail:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9PXczg8vI/AAAAAAAAAII/ZvBXWM4ZEdM/s1600-h/EdithTheAlienTNsmall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9PXczg8vI/AAAAAAAAAII/ZvBXWM4ZEdM/s400/EdithTheAlienTNsmall.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309549749980951282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tight Sketch:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9PXMIaQ5I/AAAAAAAAAIA/vKHPT42_vPI/s1600-h/EdithTheAlienTightsmall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9PXMIaQ5I/AAAAAAAAAIA/vKHPT42_vPI/s400/EdithTheAlienTightsmall.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309549745505190802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Final:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9PWmR-ocI/AAAAAAAAAH4/IHTQUfCWXUM/s1600-h/EdithTheAliensmall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9PWmR-ocI/AAAAAAAAAH4/IHTQUfCWXUM/s400/EdithTheAliensmall.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309549735344775618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-1819209962396686523?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1819209962396686523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1819209962396686523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2009/03/edith-alien.html' title='Edith The Alien!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9PXczg8vI/AAAAAAAAAII/ZvBXWM4ZEdM/s72-c/EdithTheAlienTNsmall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-4725939380335347879</id><published>2009-03-03T21:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T21:41:43.135-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Little Bit of Thesis!</title><content type='html'>Working on a children's alphabet book of oddly named animals for thesis, here's a little sampling!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309202067494270674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 345px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa4TJqnD9tI/AAAAAAAAAFU/EAFSJVhg1bw/s400/Borzoi.jpg" border="0" /&gt;B is for borzoi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309202071551833490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa4TJ5uddZI/AAAAAAAAAFc/urclzyrzN0s/s400/Jerboa.jpg" border="0" /&gt;J is for jerboa!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309202075672140546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 399px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa4TKJE0WwI/AAAAAAAAAFk/ArFRJz_nI34/s400/Wallaroo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;W is for wallaroo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's been fun playing with different color schemes to get across the idea of their habitat...It's scary to think I started with the Wallaroo having even more red originally, I think it works though. Still working out text ideas but my layout thumnails are pretty nailed down, I'll probably post those soon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-4725939380335347879?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/4725939380335347879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/4725939380335347879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2009/03/little-bit-of-thesis.html' title='A Little Bit of Thesis!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa4TJqnD9tI/AAAAAAAAAFU/EAFSJVhg1bw/s72-c/Borzoi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-6991352539322511612</id><published>2008-12-31T10:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T17:42:00.224-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketchbook'/><title type='text'>Dave!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SVu78m9RmuI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/_-65KCTHc24/s1600-h/Dave.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 294px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286025237573507810" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SVu78m9RmuI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/_-65KCTHc24/s400/Dave.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A sketch of Dave and his cat. Photo reference by Patti (his mom, and an awesome photographer!)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-6991352539322511612?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/6991352539322511612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/6991352539322511612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/12/dave.html' title='Dave!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SVu78m9RmuI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/_-65KCTHc24/s72-c/Dave.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-1760133481745322415</id><published>2008-12-24T20:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T10:38:53.423-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Giraffes and Otters and...Leaves?!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SVMMYQdo_fI/AAAAAAAAAEI/F1qWDA9BIh0/s1600-h/Rowland,A.Proj.4.F08.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283580398711406066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 332px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SVMMYQdo_fI/AAAAAAAAAEI/F1qWDA9BIh0/s400/Rowland,A.Proj.4.F08.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Final illustrations for face cards for the suit spade and clubs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-1760133481745322415?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1760133481745322415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1760133481745322415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/12/giraffes-and-otters-andleaves.html' title='Giraffes and Otters and...Leaves?!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SVMMYQdo_fI/AAAAAAAAAEI/F1qWDA9BIh0/s72-c/Rowland,A.Proj.4.F08.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-8584193862086632437</id><published>2008-12-24T17:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T10:39:07.311-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Christmas!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SVLmut5L1zI/AAAAAAAAADw/3q5voBTAC7I/s1600-h/Christmascard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283539003126830898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 323px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SVLmut5L1zI/AAAAAAAAADw/3q5voBTAC7I/s400/Christmascard.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Illustration for the card that I sent out to family and friends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-8584193862086632437?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/8584193862086632437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/8584193862086632437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas.html' title='Christmas!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SVLmut5L1zI/AAAAAAAAADw/3q5voBTAC7I/s72-c/Christmascard.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-5527152933979401708</id><published>2008-12-11T07:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T10:39:24.049-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Huitaca/Chia!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SUEr8mey9NI/AAAAAAAAADg/nVy8erbp9Bw/s1600-h/Owlfinal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278548558376793298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 374px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SUEr8mey9NI/AAAAAAAAADg/nVy8erbp9Bw/s400/Owlfinal.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Based on the South American goddess Huitaca...or Chia (very similar stories). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-5527152933979401708?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/5527152933979401708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/5527152933979401708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/12/huitacachia.html' title='Huitaca/Chia!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SUEr8mey9NI/AAAAAAAAADg/nVy8erbp9Bw/s72-c/Owlfinal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-491348151671999563</id><published>2008-12-11T06:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T07:00:24.740-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Clowns!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SUEq1-tokLI/AAAAAAAAADY/C6r8TeQRmVI/s1600-h/Clowns.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278547345110765746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 319px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SUEq1-tokLI/AAAAAAAAADY/C6r8TeQRmVI/s400/Clowns.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Stress vectoring. I think I prefer the orange one, the blue pops a lot more in it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-491348151671999563?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/491348151671999563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/491348151671999563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/12/clowns.html' title='Clowns!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SUEq1-tokLI/AAAAAAAAADY/C6r8TeQRmVI/s72-c/Clowns.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-7676652031886394645</id><published>2008-11-16T00:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T00:23:37.987-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketchbook'/><title type='text'>Sketchbook: Jack, Queen, and King of Leaves</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SR_YBtYCvFI/AAAAAAAAACQ/m4CbxnOksRk/s1600-h/JQKleaves.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269167612918676562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 226px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SR_YBtYCvFI/AAAAAAAAACQ/m4CbxnOksRk/s400/JQKleaves.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sketches of the Jack, Queen, and King of Leaves (Spades).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-7676652031886394645?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/7676652031886394645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/7676652031886394645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/11/sketchbook-jack-queen-and-king-of.html' title='Sketchbook: Jack, Queen, and King of Leaves'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SR_YBtYCvFI/AAAAAAAAACQ/m4CbxnOksRk/s72-c/JQKleaves.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-3188992245267219651</id><published>2008-10-28T22:12:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T00:23:55.940-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>The Giver!</title><content type='html'>&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0066cc;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SRKpNMweqAI/AAAAAAAAAB4/TbTKmz2-DG0/s1600-h/Ill3Giver001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265456958577485826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 246px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SRKpNMweqAI/AAAAAAAAAB4/TbTKmz2-DG0/s400/Ill3Giver001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265456945484316466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 301px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SRKpMb-0vzI/AAAAAAAAABw/nC-YBDY7Z_A/s400/Ill3Giver002front2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My final for my cover for The Giver. It's a wrap around (hence the annoying lines that were the only way I could think of to show the division between the front and back cover without text). I'll be spending tomorrow playing with text for it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-3188992245267219651?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/3188992245267219651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/3188992245267219651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/10/giver.html' title='The Giver!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SRKpNMweqAI/AAAAAAAAAB4/TbTKmz2-DG0/s72-c/Ill3Giver001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-3317731987545291330</id><published>2008-10-28T21:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T19:38:45.177-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sketchbook'/><title type='text'>Self-Portrait!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/STNcCADOcDI/AAAAAAAAADA/XNiL1OC8FDs/s1600-h/IllPotrait002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274660778024005682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 307px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/STNcCADOcDI/AAAAAAAAADA/XNiL1OC8FDs/s400/IllPotrait002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The final of my self portrait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SQ0NZbXnxGI/AAAAAAAAABY/KBTA_Ih6N-A/s1600-h/sketchport.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263878269960701026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 299px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SQ0NZbXnxGI/AAAAAAAAABY/KBTA_Ih6N-A/s400/sketchport.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SQ0NTvK6QAI/AAAAAAAAABQ/apzsP021Phw/s1600-h/colorstudyport2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263878172196880386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 299px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/SQ0NTvK6QAI/AAAAAAAAABQ/apzsP021Phw/s400/colorstudyport2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Sketch and Color Study.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-3317731987545291330?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/3317731987545291330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/3317731987545291330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/10/self-portrait.html' title='Self-Portrait!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/STNcCADOcDI/AAAAAAAAADA/XNiL1OC8FDs/s72-c/IllPotrait002.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-1248899107503025967</id><published>2008-10-21T21:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T00:24:40.240-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Tortoise!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Tortoiseupload.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Tortoiseupload.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Giant Tortoise! Based on a south american story about a giant tortoise that grew large enough to be an island and, eventually, the world.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-1248899107503025967?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1248899107503025967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/1248899107503025967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/10/tortoise.html' title='Tortoise!!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-9035119858537509927</id><published>2008-10-15T23:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T00:25:08.762-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Bongos!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Bongo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Bongo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bongos! A forest antelope of Africa known for their loose pigment, it is said to rub off easily and stories say that their colors run/bleed in the rain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm still working on this one and any feedback would be great, I'm a bit worried it looks in pain/bleeding...literally.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-9035119858537509927?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/9035119858537509927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/9035119858537509927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/10/bongos.html' title='Bongos!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-4140885578547594648</id><published>2008-10-15T17:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-04T20:14:50.446-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Calendar!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9RskAjNjI/AAAAAAAAAIY/1PfvF3ujtac/s1600-h/calendarexam.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 192px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9RskAjNjI/AAAAAAAAAIY/1PfvF3ujtac/s400/calendarexam.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309552311715182130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Ill2July.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Ill2July.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Ill2june.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Ill2june.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Ill2May.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Ill2May.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A few months from an accordion fold calendar I'm working on. The sketches for the rest of the months are done, just a matter of adding some color and working out any value kinks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-4140885578547594648?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/4140885578547594648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/4140885578547594648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/10/calendar.html' title='Calendar!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_q7Ho1wod8PI/Sa9RskAjNjI/AAAAAAAAAIY/1PfvF3ujtac/s72-c/calendarexam.png' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3975270419941921492.post-9049789489576620861</id><published>2008-10-11T21:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T00:26:06.544-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Illustration'/><title type='text'>Rhinos!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Rhinospotresize.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/aprilillustration/Rhinospotresize.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just a piece I did on my own time, part of a series I'm doing regarding odd ball facts on african animals...and an excuse to play/test.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3975270419941921492-9049789489576620861?l=aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/9049789489576620861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3975270419941921492/posts/default/9049789489576620861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://aprilmayillustration.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-postrhinos.html' title='Rhinos!'/><author><name>April May Rowland</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16106504982386215767</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
