Blog Moving!

Hey guys!

Well, it's been a good six years, but I think it's time for me to finally say goodbye to blogger.
I'll be moving this blog and most of its content over to tumblr in the next few days. I'm still figuring out the layout, and it's coming along nicely already, but let me know what you think!
Thanks for all your support over the years, and I'll see you guys over on Tumblr.

http://bifanoland.tumblr.com/

Cheers,

-Laura

Teaser

A preview of an image I just wrapped up for a show in LA.

Applied Arts

Rad! I have mertit!
Those Shipwreck images I did last summer were accepted into Applied Art Magazine's illustration awards annual.
Thanks again to Dan Pach and the wonderful folks over at PC.

Some randoms from the other night.

A quickie

Something quick for briarpatch magazine about how Afghani and Indigenous women are perceived in the media.

Thanks to Shayna Stock for this one!

More old timey folks

Here is some more work I did for the Parks Canada project.
There was a lot of back and forth on these, so I thought it might be interesting to post some process sketches.

For the project as a whole, the art directors wanted the images to stick pretty tightly to the reference images provided. As someone who primarily does more conceptual illustration, it was a constant temptation to stray away from the material provided and add my own spin on things.
It took several rounds of revisions for each set of images, but in the end we did find something that made us all happy.
For some projects you get hired to do your thing, for others more so to provide a service.
This project was a bit more of the latter, but that made it all the more challenging and rewarding in the end.

Thanks to all the fine folks over at Parks Canada for this one!

Old timey Folks

Here are some more images from the same project.
I had about a day to do each one, so it was a fun chance to experiment with graphite and its many applications.