Birth Announcement

Here is a birth announcement I made for my cousin when she had her baby.  Yes I am aware that I am a several months behind on posting this!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Here is my Valentine's Day doodle.  I scanned some newspaper in as the background and I'm kinda liking the texture it adds to this illustration!  

Eye balls

Oh you know, just a pile of eye balls sitting in a pool of blood.  No big deal.

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a safe and happy New Years!  I'm not one to reflect on the previous year, or make silly resolutions, however I did have a pretty kick ass year, and now just looking forward to another great one! 

Merry Christmas!

...and when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse!

Hope you all are having a great Christmas!  Mine's been pretty sweet, got a WWE Daniel Bryan 'Yes' t-shirt, some Ninja Turtle slippers, and the ultimate gift of an automatic car starter!  I also scored a brandy new sketch book and a Shel Silverstein book from our holiday grab bag at work!  And with all the holiday baking I've been doing, I've only managed to set off the smoke alarm once!  

Now I'm off to spend time with my family.  Have a great rest of the day everyone! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

At the beginning of November, I made an early New Year's resolution to not be so grumpy around the holidays.  For those of you who remember last year's post, and this post from the year before, you know what a grump I can be, so hopefully you will be seeing happier holiday posts from now on!  

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!  One of my favorite holidays!  Hope everyone is enjoying the day and eating lots of candy!

Polk-a-dot Craze!

Pink Polk-a-dot Craze and Blue Polk-a-dot Craze are now available for purchase in my Society 6 store!

My Society 6 Store!

Now until September 22nd you can receive free shipping on any order when you click the below link!

  

http://society6.com/GinaCoviello?promo=2e2f12

Polka-dot crazy!

Polka dots are so simple, yet give a lot of character in the sense of design!  These would be perfect framed in a baby's nursery or a child's playroom.  These will soon be available for purchase in my society 6 store so stay tuned!

Happy Labor Day!

Today is Labor Day, and unfortunately it's raining and thundering outside.  In fact, this is how it's been all weekend.  Since we didn't really have any set plans, I decided to make some art!

Mr. and Mrs. Doodie

I now pronounce you Mr. and Mrs. Doodie!

The Adventures of Mr. Doodie!

If you're in trouble

and need a hand

Mr. Doodie is

your man!

Mr. Doodie!

Anyone who truly know me knows that there is one word that I have a love/hate relationship with.  What is that word you ask?  It's plain and simple.  Doodie.  Probably not what you were expecting.  I hate when I hear people say it, but when I do hear it I can't stop laughing!  I dont even like it when it's used out of context, for example "it's my duty to be a good citizen".  I am even dreading the day I get a notice about jury duty in the mail.  I dont know if I'm more concerned about having to spend the day at a court house, or actually having to say that d-word in front of my boss.  I really don't think I could do that without laughing like a 10 year old!  Regardless, I would like to introduce to you my newest character...Mr. Doodie!

Green Monster

I was bored tonight so I drew a monster.

Patterns in Illustrator!

Ok, so I finally grasped the whole making patterns thing in Illustrator!  It might come as a surprise that an illustration major, who has had a good 10 years working in Illustrator, could not for the life of her figure out how to create seamless vector patterns!  I have always struggled with this, watching countless tutorials, and seeking help from friends.  But one day last week while I was on Pinterest, it crossed my mind to do a search for a tutorial.  I came across this awesome tutorial and in no time I was creating patterns!  Naturally I spent the rest of that night, and the majority of the week playing around and creating patterns!  Here are a few of the ones I made!

I guess you can say I went a little pattern happy.  I was just so excited that I finally figured this out, that I couldn't stop making them!  There is also a possibility that I might use a few of these patterns as backgrounds in some future illustrations.  

Happy Anniversary!

Our 1st wedding anniversary was a few days ago on April 27th, but I still wanted to post a little anniversary doodle I made.  I started first by creating the flowers, then I changed everything to our wedding colors to make it a little more personal, threw a border around it, and made it into a little anniversary card!  

Just some doods

Here are a few illustrations I recently did.  I actually drew these characters a few years ago, but like with many of the illustration I do, I draw them, save them away to my computer, and completely forget about them!  I dug these little guys out and threw a background behind them!  The first one you can find on my Society 6 Store!

My Society 6 Store is now open for business!

That's right!  I finally got around to opening up my very own Society 6 Store!  I am going to be regularly adding new stuff, so keep on coming back!  

http://society6.com/GinaCoviello

Children's book work!

Here are a few sketches I did a few months ago for a children's book.  The author ended up not liking these, so now I am posting them here!  They are a little different than my other stuff, and I'm not sure if the changes in my style is a good thing or a bad.  Regardless, I do like how these sketches came out.  After sketching them I brought them into Illustrator to make vector drawings.  I was really trying to experiment with the paint brush tools, something I've never done before.  It was kinda a pain in the butt, and a little frustrating because I don't fully understand the paint brush tools, but the outcome is a lot better than just drawing shapes with the pen tool and filling them in with color.  I want to experiment more with this technique in the future!  I also want to experiment again with making patterns in Illustrator...something I've always struggled with in the past.  Enjoy!

Mr. Bear and his side kick, Zack!

You might remember my bear sketch from my post before this one.  I finally got the chance to bring this into Illustrator to make a vector illustration of it.  I'm still in the process of illustrating the other sketches in that post, but for now, here is Mr. Bear, and his side kick, Zack (I totally just made up those names a second ago).