Illustration — WaltSDesigns

Multimedia Illustrations and Design

I created illustrations for print, interactive online media, and videos. They were intended for kids and tweens. Through the eLearning courses, they learned about many different subjects such as science, history, and literature.

I am fascinated by a lot of stormy sea paintings and have admired them in many online galleries and in person at museums. There is so much drama, motion, beautiful lighting and awesome power depicted in stormy sea paintings. I wanted to evoke similar

I wanted to bring John Smith to life here with some details from the time of his struggles exploring the Chesapeake Bay. He used a type of boat called a shallop that was made for fast travel in shallow water. He needed to find food and the settlers i

A field of flowers meets the heavens.

I have a small black cat named oddy who also has beautiful yellow eyes. I wanted to capture the feeling of the outdoors at night with the moonlight shining on the panther’s healthy coat of fur.

When Creating this illustration I tried to strike a balance between the depictions of the Raoellidae from ancient fossils and a “Fanged Deer” or “Musk Deer” which belong to the Moschus family which are not deer at all but have some similar characteri

An illustration for Lewis Caroll’s narrative poem. I was intrigued with paper hats when I was thinking about how to design the carpenter. I often saw old depictions of men wearing these types of paper hats but I really didn’t have much context. I kin

This was for a children’s story where a pancake rolled away but flew into the swimming pig’s mouth anyway, which is why the pancake does not have a happy looking face.

I did some research on how bee’s carry pollen on their legs called “saddlebags” so that they can bring some pollen back to the hive for food. I created a subtle grassy background with a speckled yellow pollen feel.

Here I wanted to capture some magical colors and vibrant light framing the tree and lighting up the grass.

This was for a story about a young dog that got lost in the woods and encountered a deer that helped him. I wanted to capture the sun rays between the trees in this one and the sense of the deer looking at the dog from the shades of the forest.

This was an illustration about the legend of how the camel got his hump by Rudyard Kipling. Because it was in the story, I put some desert milkweed in illustration on the bottom right. I had fun giving the camel a satisfied look as though he is pleas

This was a story where the wolf told his side of the story on a show. I made the host look like Peter Pan and based him on the likeness of Conan and I based the wolf on the likeness of Tom Waits. I could totally imagine Tom Waits as a Big Bad Wolf ch

I wanted to capture the excitement of sledding very fast on a snow day where the only concern is to play in the snow. I tried to capture the feeling of speed, powdered snow in gusting wind and icy snowflakes. I made the snow man lean for a feeling o

This was for a story about a person’s negative perspective on winter. I really wanted to push a treacherous icy landscape full of deep snow, a frozen car and endless chunks of ice to chip away at. There is also an aurora effect in the sky to push the

I really enjoyed painting the textures for the owl’s feathers in this one.

Here we have Paul Bunyan’s faithful companion Babe. I was experimenting with shades of blue and gold and textures for fur and mountains. I tried to give some idea of scale as well with the trees in the background to emphasize that Babe is a very big

I wanted the Queen of Gospel and Civil Rights activist to be singing in radiant warm light to capture the atmosphere she created. I also focused on making her microphone shine with bright metallic highlights.

For this one I did research on traditional Pueblo colors for their clothes, and the Pueblo “Three Sister” crops. I also made illustrations for a story depicting the three sisters which is also on this page further down. The traditional adobe homes ar

The creation process from Izanagi’s dripping spear. Izanami is pointing to where the island Onogoro will be created. I referenced the old depictions of this myth and recreated it with a sort of cloudy beginning of life on Earth sort of feel.

Since there are no references of Sacagawea when she was alive, I tried to get as close as I could to representing her by referencing an old traditional way of carrying a baby. I chose some brown and red shades that I thought could work for someone in

I wanted to do this guitar legend justice by capturing sonic energy emanating from him with waves of cosmic, fiery colors that are reminiscent of the tie dye of those times. I referenced the way he played his guitar, and outfits that he wore, and I w

I created a 3D room in Adobe Illustrator that I then took into Photoshop, to paint the illustrations over it because I really wanted to create the perspective of having the wolf on one side of the wall and goats on the other. I thought about the look

I highly respect her as an artist who boldly expressed herself. I wanted to honor her with a portrait that was painted with similar colors to her paintings. I referenced many different photos and paintings when I created this one. I was interested in

I focused on a lot of icy shades of blue for this brinicle to give it that freezing feeling as the creatures become encased in ice. I wanted light to glow through the layers of ice on the surface above.

This illustration is based on a Arts and Crafts stand I saw when I was in Arizona. One of my goals with this one was to capture that dry Arizona heat with the warm colors and brows. The sky was also very blue.

A friendly colorful illustration of a giraffe. At the time I made this, I was really into painting grasses with bright colors. I was inspired by Monet’s use of colors in paintings like “Haystacks”. I also wanted to choose colors that gave the feeling

This is for a story about the 3 sisters that represent the “Three Sister Crops” which are an essential part of Native American agriculture. I scoured over any references to create this one. I tried to create the illustrations with traditional Iroquoi

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