Lina Loves Drawing

Art blog of Chelsea 'Linaeve' Beiler, Illustration student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and lover of all things that wiggle, creep, crawl, swim, and fly.

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One other Scientific Illustration project, this was technically supposed to be a historical illustration but I made it all… about birds… oops.

Medieval Falconry, when the gyrfalcon (one of my favourite birds) was considered the king’s bird, one only he could fly.

Art I’ve been sitting on since first semester OOPS

Here’s Bento again! The assignment was to design a mascot for some sort of restaurant and draw them featuring the food from the restaurant, I chose some sort of Middle Eastern and Oriental themed place that had a wide variety of different foods from across the pond, both authentic and Americanized. In my original idea the speech bubble would have the menu in it, surprise surprise I was too busy to actually finish it. Still pretty happy with the outcome though!

gosh, lizard lady, put some clothes on
A quick little drawing for a friend so that I could murder play around with overlays and get back into the swing of drawing lined things. Going to keep playing around with more finished stuff later in the summer!

gosh, lizard lady, put some clothes on

A quick little drawing for a friend so that I could murder play around with overlays and get back into the swing of drawing lined things. Going to keep playing around with more finished stuff later in the summer!

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Lina made me this cute illustrated story and the little stuffed deer spirit she bought for me! The fox spirit gets to stay here with her and if you read the story the deer spirit sends the foxy pictures of her adventure!

Lina and I will be most likely be taking these little guys on adventures together this summer! First though the little deer is going to Ireland with me!

EDIT: the deer and fox spirits were made by sewgoods.tumblr.com.

Drew a little story for the two cute plushies I bought from sewgoods <3 The deer’s going to Ireland with my good friend Kat!

And more Bonaparte’s gulls for my final project in Scientific Illustration. Orange is summer range, yellow is migration area, blue is winter range.

Observational drawing of old taxidermied birds today in Scientific Illustration. This Bonaparte’s gull has seen better days, unfortunately.

Illustration for a poster design contest for the Penfield Children’s center’s annual croquet ball. It didn’t make the cut, unfortunately, but was a lot of fun to design!

The Cramer-Krasselt ad agency here in Milwaukee was generous enough to pay for the printing of these 26x40” monsters for our entire Illustration class, which we get to keep as portfolio pieces.

Got super discouraged by people calling animals the wrong name today, so I decided it was about time to post this little gem I’ve been sitting on for a while.

Yet another one-day project, we had to do a set of three designs for matchstick boxes (in two hours wow ok) so I decided to illustrate mythical critters that use fire! these were actually pretty fun since they were so loose and simple.

I recommend viewing them fullsize, the large one is a bit pixelated and the smaller ones are a bit too small to see the detail well!

Another 1-day project, I like this one much more than the last. Done as a concept for a mural to go on a nasty blank wall in the illustration lab.

Might touch it up and re-post it later, but I’ve been meaning to touch up a dozen different class projects before posting them so I think I’ll just leave this one be.