Comic Pages 2-3

An excess of LINE!

Graphic Art Is Hard to do Well!

Coming up with a story line, then working on images that keep the same feel is tough.

I'm going to continue, but it's not going to be good...It is a fun challenge however.

City Visitors Illustration

Out of town and in-town visitors...

Click here to see my entry for last week's topic because I finished it too late to post on IF.

Captain!

So I just finished the Illustration Friday piece from last week. I don't even know what it is this week yet, but I will soon, and now with my new toy I will have fun working on it.

Finally

I have finally made it to the Wacom world...the graphic designers dream. I can now sketch my drawings. This is the first one I made in about 10 minutes of doodling. Enjoy! Many more to come...

Geek Daydreaming

You can decide who is doing the daydreaming...then you can post a story about it...Have fun!

Caricatures

I did not draw these caricatures, but I think it is fun to see so many of them together. Our school secretary arranged to have a caricaturist come to our school in order to draw us for teacher appreciation week.

See, people in schools really appreciate the arts when they're fun like this...just kidding I can't complain at all. My school is very supportive of all the arts.

Twister with a Twist

Click on image for larger view.

Here are my twists of lemon playing Twister for Illustration Friday.

Urban Camouflage

Music As an Honorarium

Here is a cd cover I just designed as a freelance job. It was a concert for a woman in the community who is retiring from a Church choir/handbell/organ/music director position after many years.

Ditto Yesterday...

I'm drawing little sketches and putting them on my blog when I should be grading finals. Procrastinator extraordinaire.

This is Me...RIGHT NOW!

I'm drawing little sketches and putting them on my blog when I should be grading finals. Procrastinator extraordinaire.

Illustration Friday: Suit

Here are a few logos and labels I made for a friend who does some brewing, and is actually a preacher. If he ever goes into large scale production I would highly recommend trying his beer because it is very good. Last fall he made a Chocolate Jalepeno Stout. Nummy.

...But until he begins his microbrewery you can admire the suits as an example of the Illustration Friday topic for this week.

Combining Blogs

I figured I would create an illustration of an architectural element in order to combine my interests from my two blogs.

I would love advice, or comments for how to make this more interesting. I have the feeling it is missing something.

Illustration Friday: Paradise

This shows the best of both worlds. Being surrounded by nature and having a city very close.

Signs

This was an Illustration Friday topic a couple weeks ago. I have been busy. Enjoy even though it's late.

Old Sketch

It's fun for me to see where I have come from and the improvement I have made over time, so I share this as just a reflection of that.

Sagging Objects and Hybrids

Homework Challenges 2 & 3...
and 3 Take-2...

Challenge 2: Draw something that looks like it is melting or sagging

Well, I feel like I melt or sag without my coffee in the morning, so this is my coffee cup.


Challenge 3: Draw a hybrid of a fruit and an animal

I first thought of making the apple be the bellybutton of a baboon or ape type creature, but as you can see with the stem it didn't work too well. I thought it was extremely funny, but did not communicate what I wanted it to communicate, so I tried again...


Take-2: A fish with the bottom of the apple as the eye. I think it is not nearly as funny, but the intent is communicated better.


...you can decide.

Game Piece

Here is a game piece and card from the Charades for Dummies Game. (I've never played it.)

Here is the ninth sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in
_X_ Links in a chain
_X_ Cracker or potato chip
_X_ A ceramic animal
_X_ Something new you purchased this week
_X_ A game piece from any game

CREEPY!!

Homework Challenge 1: Draw fingers on feet and toes on hands...

It looks really strange and creepy I know, but it was fun anyway.

Illustration Friday: Citrus

Here's my version of the citron...I didn't realize the name came from the idea that this was the fruit Adam and Eve may have eaten in the Garden of Eden. At least they named it after Adam and didn't blame it all on Eve like some people do now...


I guess I'm really liking greens and olives in my color scheme (see last week's IF entry.)

What Came First? The Chicken or the Egg? Or the Beer?

The first is a ceramic work that was done by a student...it looked enough like a nest with eggs, so I figured I could draw it as a "ceramic animal."

I haven't bought much lately so the second is a beverage I bought last night.


Here are the seventh and eighth sketches in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in
_X_ Links in a chain
_X_ Cracker or potato chip
_X_ A ceramic animal
_X_ Something new you purchased this week

Non-Objective Drawing

This is an older drawing, but I just came across it, and thought I would post it.

Tasty Little Cracker

Here's the sixth sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in
_X_ Links in a chain
_X_ Cracker or potato chip

Face Drawing

Chain Links

Here's the fifth sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in
_X_ Links in a chain

Change Bowl

Here's the fourth sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle
_X_ Something you keep change in

Illustration Friday: Neighbor

I created this illustration right after I finished substituting for a Biology class. We watched a video on Gregor Mendel and genetics.

It was a subconsious connection because I didn't realize that I had been influenced by the video until I finished the illustration.

Bottle Still-Life

Here's the third sketch in my "homework" assignment.

Sketchbook Checklist (see previous blogs):

_X_ Fingers and/or toes
_X_ Your face in a reflection
_X_ Odd shaped bottle

Illustration Friday: Remember

Here's my combo pen drawing with Photoshop work.

Sketchbook Assignment

I am doing my sketchbook assignment along with my students...(The creepy drawing of the fingers was the first drawing I did for the assignment, and this is the second.) Only 14 more to go. I'm a mean teacher huh?

My students must thank my fellow bloggers for this assignment. I got so inspired by looking at visual blogs, which is where I got this list of drawings, that I decided they must draw these things too. (They have to do 13 on the list and then the bottom three challenges.)


____ ceramic animal.
____ something brass
____ a single flower, up close and
personal.
____ something new you purchased
this week.
____ fingers and/or toes
____ Odd shaped bottle
____ a game piece from any game
____ something a chef would use
____ potato chip or cracker
____ something you push or pull
____ something on your refrigerator
____ something that annoys you
____ links of a chain
____ what you keep spare change in
____ something with a flower on it
____ inside of a shell
____ something you measure
____ something your least favorite
color
____ 3 strange things in your house.
____ a tongue
____ 3-item still life in blue (or 3
blue items)
____ your face in a reflection
____ An “owie” (bruise, cut, scar,
etc.)
____ a bowl of something
____ something that reminds you of a
baby
____ a way to say “I love you


Challenge #1: toes on the hand/fingers on the foot.
Challenge #2: Make one of your items look like it is melting or sagging.
Challenge #3: Draw a hybrid between a fruit and an animal

Polar...Opposites!

These two states and cities are definitely polar opposites.

Peace

I was not a contributer to Illustration Friday when the topic was peace. I think I will contribute now. Even though I think this design needs quite a bit more work...

Hasn't everyone been thinking about peace with what has been happening in our world and country lately?

Inspiration From Fellow Visual Bloggers

This post has been inspired by sketch blogs and illustration blogs I have seen in the past week. Thanks!

mammajam's questions

These are questions from mammajam's visual blog about IF posts, which I have answered below...


Which leads to my questions for any of my IF visitors:

1) How long to you spend on your weekly IF illustration?

2) Do you draw from your mind or do you have a visual reference?

3) Do you illustrate as a profession?

4) How did you find out about Illustration Friday?

5) Why have you started participating in Illustration Friday?

***I would love to read your answers. Perhaps you can post them in the comments section or just leave me a link to your blog and I'll come read it there***


1) How long to you spend on your weekly IF illustration? I have spent anywhere from 1 hour to 12 hours on my drawings/designs for Illustration Friday. All of the illustrions I have posted so far have been new designs for the topic, not old ones I have recycled, but that may wear off...

2) Do you draw from your mind or do you have a visual reference? I have done both, and it's about half from my head and half from pictures I have taken. The cartoony ones are from my head and the more realistic ones from pictures.

3) Do you illustrate as a profession? Sort-of. I illustrate assignments that my students are working on. Besides that I do not do illustration, but I have always admired the way illustrators put visual ideas together. I have quite a collection of children's books. In a related field, graphic design, I have had a couple of logo/letterhead/website design/redesign jobs on the side.

4) How did you find out about Illustration Friday? I gave my students an illustration assignment and googled "illustration" I found many artists websites and blogs that had links to Illustration Friday. I looked at the images long before I decided to set up my blog to create my own designs for the topics. I was hesitant because I manage 4 other personal/work websites. At first the thought of another one overwhelmed me, but it has been a rewarding experience so far.

5) Why have you started participating in Illustration Friday? I need something that "makes" me do more than just create assignments for students. It's like an academic challenge for me in creative problem solving. I also love the networking aspect: hearing advice from and seeing designs by other creative individuals.

Anyone in Jersey?

I have just designed three posters for a local church. If anyone lives in Jersey and wants to take part in a free throw contest feel free.

Two kids in the church helped me. Can you tell what part each of them did?

Illustration Friday: Fortune

I have done the last couple of Illustration Friday topics, but did not post them, so if you like this one check them out on my blog...

Illustration Friday: Green

Here's my go at Photoshop. This was not my original idea for this illustration, but everytime I thought of the word green I kept getting the Radiohead song in my head that begins..."Green plastic watering can..." (Fake Plastic Trees)

I did not get enough time this week to work on this since I was behind from the last two weeks.

Illustration Friday: Snap

I'm trying to keep up with all of them even though I didn't actually post on IF. Hopefully this week I'll get to post ontime again!

I Spy A Little Eye

Can you see it?

It's in the style of Chuck Close all done with the pen tool and overlapping shapes on Adobe Illustrator.

This was for Illustration Friday when I was on Spring Break so I didn't post it then, but I'm finally finished. It took forever.

Total: Illustration Friday

Stylized Graphics...now that blogger is fixed.