Farewell

Friends, it's been real. I'm transitioning to lizwikstrom.tumblr.com from now on. I think I'll keep this page up as a record of my time at art school, but follow me at this link for further updates!

XOXO
liz

Cheshire Grin

for a creepily catty Alice in Wonderland cover.

Faux Shaux review in the All-Nighter

http://all-nighter.com/inspiration/faux-shaux/

Thanks for the shoutout!

The Hair Piece

Underpuppy

*not Eden Wood. Just a sketch I did during class.

Tock

A supplementary Phantom Tollbooth spot illustration (Or back cover? Preview after the break.)

Rhyme and Reason ("The Phantom Tollbooth" cover art)

FAUX SHAUX

click Read More for more photos.

Mouth noises. (Or: My lip gloss is poppin!)

This is a good example of the difference between finish and sketch when I work in pencil.

Aloha Alien Babe

Oni ("The Funny Little Woman" cover art)

Updated cover art for the 1973 children's book about a Japanese cook from whom demons steal a single dumpling.

Work featured on urbansketchers.org!

http://www.urbansketchers.org/2012/04/drawing-praise.html

Thank you Fred!

for James Thurber's "A Box to Hide In"

Bravolebrities

Tabatha, Padma, and NeNe. And Rachel Zoe and Patti. Oh my!

Baba Yaga

I think all my pieces are secretly about hair now.

Watershed Journal piece

for the short story "Wild Things"

Umbra

Let's be real, I wanted to draw moon faces.

Fun fact: this began as an assignment to make a cover for the anthology of this fantasy book series. 

Dorophobia

or, fear of animal skin and fur.

Puppet made with plaster, enamel, leather, and rabbit fur. Necklace version with copper.

(The tongue is a finger puppet, and by that I mean the finger of a glove!)

Eat Crow

Benjamin Franklin

à la Mona Lisa

Ballerina Girl!

88 Apples

Awkwardly Gifted Girl ("Juggling for the Complete Klutz" cover art)

A redesign for the cover of this book (the brand having gone here after 30-ish years).

Margot

Sketchbook Journalism in Viterbo, Italy

For this class, July 2011, centered around site-specific sketching (like the kinds posted to Urban Sketchers. That's my teacher featured on their masthead!) Thanks, Fred and Kelly, for a great month!