SugarmanArt

Recreating the visualization of a scene based on information provided by forensics. For more, click here for my 3D site.

These are some of my illustrations for Stuart Atkins’ book: Winning the Battle for Attention. Internet Marketing for Small Business. Definitely worth the read.

Animated Logo’s are my newest passion. This is a simple GIF that I put on my Contact page of JamieSugarman3d.com Of course, anything with googly eyes pokes at my funny bone.

And to continue, here’s the newest flyer I put together for this new start-up. 

Though the years I’ve done many logos for new companies. I especially like this newest one for a young, musically talented, friend.  I wish him loads of luck.

The original is fish eyed and unflattering especially to the ladies on the edges. Here I did some copy, transform warp in PS to achieve a photo that’s more true.  Looking good. 

We have the best little super-dog ever!

Never avoid something new because it’s scary. I went back to school at the ripe old age of (cough), well let’s just say I easily could be mom to most of these kids. It WAS scary but so MUCH FUN! I now have my 3D Modeling and Animation Certificate and am loving it. SAC recently interviewed me as an important part of their demographic, “the returning student”. The fun thing is that they stuck my face on their homepage. Check out http://www.sac.edu.(Santa Ana College), on the first page, the main picture on the front. On the bottom right of that picture are page numbers. If you go to page 3 and wait for 4 seconds, my face pops up. If you click on my picture when it pops up, it takes you to a write-up and one of the paragraphs is my mini-interview. Huh….who would’ve thought?

I am just loving these Fairy Doors. My client bought this beautiful tiny door for her daughter’s room and I painted a scene to match the decor mural. How much fun is that?

So, here’s another gift caricature for a friend. It looks like this guy won’t be letting retirement slow him down.  I may have erased some pertinent items for public viewing. Yeah, I’m not giving out his name or where he worked, but enjoy the caricature. I sure enjoyed drawing it.

A friend took this black and white photo of her beautiful little toddler. What a shot! He’s so pretty, I just had to play with it. Added a sepia tone, upped the contrast slightly and added a bit of pink in the cheek and a blue tinge to his collar. Not to mention those gorgeous blue eyes. What fun it is to be able to play with Photoshop like this. BTW, she’s  having it printed on canvas.

This is just another photo adjustment for some dear friends. I’d much rather play with brightening or restoring photos then do my homework. *sigh…back to work.

As a gift to her husband, my client wanted to put her little boy’s picture on the same back ground as her husbands same age picture. With the exception of her being blond and his coloring being a little different, they look JUST ALIKE. Clean up the old picture, change the background on the new one and, what a nice gift to present to her man.

Wow…a little know-how and my friends think I’m amazing. This is a dear friend that I’ve known since High School, and her brothers. Such a sweet picture. I can’t make it perfect and I prefer to leave some of the cracks and age marks to keep its integrity. I discovered that if I go too far, it looks plastic and fake. Nice, huh? It warms my heart to be able to restore most of this little gem for my friend.

Last weekend I had the opportunity to teach miniature Michalangelos to paint a mural on a banner. Once the banner was full we moved to large paper. I expected to have to help draw, stimulate, and instruct but I was pleasantly wrong. Even the tiniest of these aspiring muralists knew what they wanted to paint and what colors to use. That doesn’t mean I didn’t stick my nose in to encourage color mixing and line work. Even after all of these years I’m still amazed at the ability and creativity of kids. It does my heart good.

I’m in print! How exciting! Stuart Atkins, the author of this little gem hired me to draw a couple of little black & whites and we had so much fun with it, it turned into 23 illustrations. He was kind enough to thank me in his acknowledgments and place my name on a page of my own. Nice work. Of all the books and magazines I’ve illustrated, I can honestly say this book is well worth a read for anyone with a website. Good Job, Stu.

I picked up a plain display post from a store going out of business. Sat and looked at it for a couple of weeks and decided to paint it to look like rocks. Well….if I’m going to have a rock post, I may as well have a Koi pond in it. All I need to do now is put a piece of glass on top and TaDa!  How fun is that?

Just rehashing an oldie but goodie from 2002. Just one of 22 illustrations for this book. The lady that wrote this, Tricia Spencer WON Best Nonfiction Book in an International Manuscript Competition. I like to think that my cartoons helped.

These were our Christmas Cards a couple of years ago. I drew them easily and cut different pieces of fabric to glue on the scarves.  I haven’t had time to make cards since then and won’t have time this year either, I don’t think. Hummmm….now I have to think about it.

I’ve been painting murals in beautiful homes for over 20 years. Why can’t I come up with the right color to paint my walls? Arghh!

Nailed it! For real. Thank you to Sommer Collier for posting this on Pinterest. You can find the directions on her site, aspicyperspective.com.

How much fun are these? Just a little bit of whimsy for my favorite pre-school, TurtleRock. They’re little signs to go under four clocks on the wall to convey different time zones. I wonder what time it is in Whoville?

This Peter Rabbit nursery is just what I love to paint: soft, sweet, alive, and timeless. Immersing myself into these 20 characters and their surrounding, while listening to my audio books, I revitalized my soul. My clients have become fast friends and I’ll cherish the joy of this room with them for many more grandchildren to come. This is exactly why I chose to do what I do. You can see more detail pictures on my website www.jmeillustrations.com. in the “Baby’s Nursery” gallery.