Back from my trip / Disco Hippo

I'm finally back from my trip to Europe. I got to see my family for my brother's wedding in Portugal and I also got to meet my new niece. I'm an auntie! It was lots of fun and my husband ended up taking over 4,000 photos! Lots of great castle reference photos among them :D

In other news, I'm finishing up some illustrations for a new conference this Friday. I'm a bit uncertain about the results right now, we'll see how it goes. I've been thinking I should try more things with techniques and also try not to be too obsessed doing what I think people want to see and just do what I feel like doing.

The "disco hippo" I'm uploading is a little rough drawing I made for one of the students at work. I made this a while ago, but sadly, I never got to give it to him before school was over and he graduated. I bet he thought I had forgotten about his request. Anyway, I hope one day he gets to see it. In case you're wondering, the hippo is dressed up as Travolta and he's dancing next to Noodles.... why Noodles? Because the kids usually ask me to draw weird things and besides, they spent about a month of school singing that silly song about the hippo with noodles on his back , so it made sense... kinda.