This is my first Artist Trading Card.

Artist trading cards (ATCs) are miniature pieces of art that are traded around the world. Artists create, trade, and collect art at organized swap events either in person or online. The only official rule for ATCs is the size: 2.5" x 3.5" . (Also, you never sell them; only trade.) The cards can be done in any media (ink, pencil, pastel, watercolors, acrylics).

If you would like one from me, I would be happy to trade with you! Just email my mom at nmboxer at yahoo dot com so we can trade addresses or post office boxes. Please give me an idea of what you would like me to draw!

Two pears and a lemon.

This is a collage I did today, with my teacher, of two pears and a lemon. I drew the still life with charcoal and then we cut colored paper into pieces and we both did the final result.

Looking for inspiration.

I tried doing this character in different media: pen, colored pencils, and screen tones.

This is one of my new favorite books, Digiko's Champion Cup Theater, which I picked up at True Believers comic shop in Santa Fe. It influences my drawing a little bit, and now I'm trying not to make the eyes so big. I tried to draw my characters similar to the ones in this book, but it didn't work out.

This is the back cover of Digiko.

Here's my attempt at this character style.

My own story, Spell Binder, is about a 12-year-old girl named Thyme, who finds that she is psychic. Thyme is later visited by the Spell Binder, Starly, and is taken to a magical world where she'll make friends, rivals, and maybe discover some clues to help find her father.
These are several splash-pages I did of some of the characters in Spell Binder a while ago.

Finally, this is the inspiration of the spell binders as well as the story itself:

I did these last week with my teacher who has a studio up on Hyde Park Road. He is very good because he tells me real things, he repeats things so I remember, and we aren't rushed. Also we are surrounded by art.
Apple.
Me.