Susan Meyer's Portfolio

Yellow Crossbow

SusanMeyer33 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:28:16 +0000

yellow is the color of my true love’s crossbow
yellow is the color of the sun
and black is the color of
a strangled rainbow
that’s the color of my loss
black is the color of my true love’s arrow
that’s the color of human blood

Just a piece inspired by Elvis Perkin’s song “Shampoo” (above). Little bit of a different style, not 100% happy with it, but not so much so that I want to work on it anymore.

Some fashionable little girls…

SusanMeyer33 — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:55:45 +0000

This is the style I default to when I doodle — round faces, small eyes, bendy bodies and simple mouths. I try for a more realistic look on most of my finished pieces, but sometimes the more realistic pieces lack the life and flow of the doodlier stuff. So, I’ll keep practicing on those finished pieces, and in the meantime here are some cute, fashionable little girls doing their thing.

Iguanas redo

SusanMeyer33 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:51:58 +0000

I’d done a picture a couple of years ago of a girl sitting in a chair surrounded by pink iguanas (they were in the news quite a bit then, as it had recently been discovered they were genetically distinct from their green cousins — fascinating!) The perspective on the chair was a bit wonky, though, and I thought the girl was somewhat stiff looking. I still liked the color scheme though, and the idea of a bookish girl and stoic looking lizards. So, I redid the piece, this time with no chair and action-filled iguanas.

My husband especially likes the iguanas’ expressions. A bit less stoic than I’d planned, but they certainly look happy about their newfound flight abilities. Here’s the older picture, by the way, for comparison:

Bird Tears

SusanMeyer33 — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:50:37 +0000

Since I didn’t get to my crying birds on the Neko Case picture, I did a special pic of a weeping sparrow. I love the punch of a bright aqua or pink against neutrals or darks, like here…

Neko Case

SusanMeyer33 — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:33:28 +0000

One of my favorite performers, Neko Case! I have another, older picture I did of her that’s still in my illustration portfolio, but thought I’d do another one. Originally, I’d wanted to have the birds sitting on her antlers and crying bright blue tears. That didn’t work out, though, the birds were so small that the tears ended up looking like giant tacky costume jewelry (for birds!) at bigger sizes, or not visible at all at smaller sizes. So, I ditched the tears and used brightly colored string instead.

Jigsaw

SusanMeyer33 — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:57:19 +0000

Only a month late, really! I love horror movies, and I REALLY love the Saw franchise. Tobin Bell is definitely my creepy old-guy movie crush, so I did a pic to celebrate his awesomeness, complete with piggy helpers. One of these days I’d love the time to do some more horror antagonists, especially Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or the scary inbreds from The Hills Have Eyes (brrr… those guys creep me out every time I see any of the Hills movies, remakes or originals…)

We’re gonna need a bigger quiche…

SusanMeyer33 — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:46:24 +0000

An oldish sketch of some really, really big swiss chard and small people staring at it. Fun!

Belated Halloween

SusanMeyer33 — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:49:01 +0000

Belated post for Halloween — did a picture of a rockabilly vampire and an aristocratic werewolf.

Troll Hunters

SusanMeyer33 — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:30:51 +0000

Hot off the tablet! Just finished this piece — it’s a girl out hunting trolls with her enormous Norwegian Forest Cats. Inspired by my dad’s stories about Norway and children’s book illustrators like Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsen.

Scooter and Bread

SusanMeyer33 — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:35:40 +0000

I had originally planned on using this as a self-promotion postcard, but the more I looked at it, the less I felt it worked. It’s still a pretty descent picture, and I’m proud of the way the cityscape background turned out, so I figured I’d share it here.