Christmas Portraits

Here's an example of one of the portraits I did for clients this year for the Holidays. This portrait was for a new JP friend and I was very happy to do it! The portrait is about 8x10" and done in graphite.

I'm always accepting commissions, just shoot me an email: sophy (at)sophytuttle.com.

Happy Holidays!!

If you live in Boston and go to cool places, you might start to see a poster I did for the awesome band called Tallahassee. This may also be true if you live in Providence or New York City. Here it is along with the sketch, in case you're not cool enough to see it in person. I highly recommend checking out their show as well.

Catfish

I finally finished the line drawing for the upcoming issue of ANE's Whole Terrain magazine. Now I'm starting to add color to some of my favorites. Here's a catfish that accompanies a poem called Currents. Prints available on my Etsy store!

Animal Skulls

Something I did on Thanksgiving. I love drawing bones and skulls, so it was a lot of fun to do. I'm still experimenting with color and finding things that work and things that don't.

Hey Baltimore! Vote for me in the Baker Artist's Awards!

This year I'm participating in the Baker Artist Awards. If you don't know what it is, you can read a little bit about it here. Basically it's a competition for all kinds of visual, sound, and performance artists in Baltimore City. It's a way to gain exposure for us and celebrate the rich art scene here in Bmore.

I've made a page with all my 2D and 3D work for people to vote on. You only have to vote for an artist, not their individual work. To see my page (and vote for me if you like it), please click here.

Thanks for checking it out!

I took a trip to Boston

This weekend, I took a 10 hour overnight train ride from Baltimore to Boston, and then back again. It was complete with drunk soccer fans from the one Chelsea game ever to occur in the US, screaming children, and a dining car that closed before 10. Needless the say the actual travelling was not a good time.

Once I got there, however, I got to see my best friend from my childhood get married, go to my college room mate's graduation party, and see my parents for the first time in 6 months. So, all in all, I think it was worth the 20 hours of agony.

On the trip back, in between working on freelance projects and catching up on back issues of Scientific American from my dad, I managed to do this little sketch of myself from the reflection in the window. Looking forward to doing it all again in a few weeks...

Sketches for February

Here are a few of my favorite sketches from the first couple months of 2009. Enjoy!

ACEO's on Etsy

I just found out what ACEO's (Art Cards, Editions, and Originals) are and have started making my own and selling them on my Etsy site. They're business card sized (3.5 by 2 inches) pieces of art that you can buy or trade. It's a great way to own some original art by someone you've always enjoyed without breaking the bank.

Here's a sample of the series I just created. The rest are up on Etsy.

New Drawings on Etsy

These two drawings are now available on my etsy site! They are original drawings and measure about 6 x 10 (specifics on the site). I'm starting a personal series of animals to work on my pen & ink/ photoshop skills. These are the first two drawings I've done.

Summed up Summer

Big update! Tons of stuff has happened since April. First of all, I graduated from RISD with a BFA in Illustration. After a couple of months of bumming around Massachusetts, I moved to Baltimore and started freelancing.

My first job was for Delaware Today. It was a spot illustration for a short story about how the economy will be affecting Santa this year. You can see it with the article here, but here's the image I came up with.



Second, I opened up an Etsy shop at http://sophytuttle.etsy.com/. I'm selling greeting cards, original illustrations, and prints so far, but I'm hoping to expand to sculptures eventually too. I'm also offering custom jobs... drawings, paintings, sculptures, pretty much anything...

Third! Through a bizarre string of coincidences I am now part of a chicken-themed show at Joe Squared on North Street in Baltimore. I wish I had a picture of my piece but it was a rush job (found out about the show on Wednesday and it opened on Thursday), so I didn't have time to scan it. It's a good show, and a pretty cool bar besides, so if you hate the show at least you can get drink as a consolation.

The last update I have is that I will be doing portfolio reviews at MICA tomorrow on behalf of RISD. We'll see how that goes...

Redesigned Characters

These are redesigns of characters from the animated movie Titan A.E. I chose to design the female lead as well as the female weapons expert. When I showed my initial sketch to my group, they suggested making it more feminine, so I changed a few things around for the final.

Warm and Cool

These two characters use warm and cool colors to emphasize their positive and negative traits.

Pen and Ink

Here's some of my work in pen and ink...