My Latest advertising project, selling cigarettes.

In this modern day a new trend for smokers has come about, Vaporizers. There's a wide variety of styles and flavor vaping products.

I had in mind a young audience 20-30 something party types. Vaping is a hobby among non smokers due to the cool smoke effects made from vaping pens.

Apple Girl

oil pastel on Moleskin paper -2014

I love the expression on her face! Though she is being wasteful if she only takes a bit then wants a whole new apple hehe ;p 

Her hair was the funnest to work on, so fiery and colorful! 

Fishy Poster Ad

oil pastel on Bristol Board- 2014

oil pastels have always been one of my favorite, yet tricky, mediums. Its so versatile and sometimes unforgiving. 

One can only wonder what this salmon school thinks of the sale haha. 

Beer Flyer

soft chalk pastel on Bristol board 2014

I really wanted to crack out my dusty old pastel set, so here you have it! 

Jungle Cat Layout

CS6 Illustrator 2014

I had the idea of creating a deck of cards almost. I think I might actually go back and make more vector animals, create a whole deck!

Logo Work

Coral Gardens online Logo

A fun logo I did for an online aquarium store. 

Adobe Illustrator CS6 (2014)

Monocle co. Logo

I was approached by a start up company to create their logo. I had fun with this one! 

Their name was so cool I just had to do something fun to represent it.

Adobe Illustrator CS6 (2014) 

Personal Stamp

A stamp I created for myself to be used on a business card. 

Adobe Illustrator CS6 (2014)

I have carbon made portfolio now!

http://heatherryder.carbonmade.com/

I love this site! 

Preview

I need to focus on this blog more. I've been so busy that lately I forget to update this corner of the internet. 

Here's a preview of more work to come!

Sunset Gal

Testing out my new Monoprice tablet :)  and sneaking in some line work practice.

Printmaking Dump

I had some fun with printmaking a couple months back, so I figured I'd  post some of my favorites.

Character Types

This was a nice excuse to crack out my old watercolor set, so tired of oils for now ;) 

not much of a story behind this, just girls with different personalities and styles. 

Sketchy 002 "Cashier Guy" (updated)

I haven't been very active this summer like I thought I would. But heres an updated version of the last post. I'm starting to like this sketch more and more, might do a more refined version of it.