Trying to get back on the Illustration Friday habit, A few years ago, we stood and watched the Primates interact at the San Diego Wildlife park, it was fascinating. Their (the apes) social hierarchy was VERY apparent among our hirsute ancestors - meanwhile, all around us other park-goers children where running and screaming out of control. And we cage the apes, ha!
This week’s Illustration Friday’s theme is ‘choose’. So I went with the classic ‘coffee OR tea’ scenario - tossed in a robot butler (because I don’t draw ENOUGH robots) and had some fun with a really limited palette, and some low contrast - I think it has an interesting feel.
Tagged: illustration friday, Robots, Spot Art
Had a bit of fun with this week’s IF theme ‘plain’, answered the question where does the easter bunny actually get those fancy eggs. - this one is right from my sketchbook, pretty pleased overall, one of the few recent pieces started and completed entirely in vector.
Finally wrapped my head around illustrator envelope functions to the point where I can anticipate the outcome. Also fought my blendy shadowy urges and let the color sing.
Tagged: illustration friday, Spot Art
IMHO Illustration Friday is the perfect way to start 2008, this weeks theme was ‘soar’ - so I put together a moody little image that showed what a little lateral thinking can do for you, even if you’re a bird.
I’m liking the limited palette, I need to do more of that.
Tagged: illustration friday, spot illustration
This is an image I created for my friend Barbara, it was used to flesh out a student calendar produced by an illustration class at The Philadelphia College of Art of which she’s the instructor. I’m pretty please with how this came out, I wanted to inject some asianesque flavor into it while maintaining my overall graphic aesthetic, and I think it works, what do you think?.
A simple piece I did for Illustration Friday, illustrating the word “trouble”, playing with a batik effect, and minimal detail.
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A fun piratey piece for ‘Pirate Day!’ - illustrated very quickly (under 2 hours) using a bunch of scanned bits as photoshop brushes, a very cool way to generate lots and lots of texture.
This illustration has always been one of my favorite pieces, I think it’s a color thing, and this was one of the very first pieces that I rendered to this extent, looking back on it - maybe I should switch to decaf.
The more I fiddle with this style, the more I like it, this little spot of an odd little droid was just a blast to do. Of course, last week I did something that really was very robotesque, so this week I had to come up with a robot a little less common. Considering my client driven work is usually rendered like this, these graphic pieces are nice little breaks in my week.
Tagged: illustration friday, Robots, spot illustration
Really just me fiddling with my wacom tablet for 40 minutes or so (when I should have actually been working)… the original idea came from my sketchbook under the category - What did the ‘Wizard of Oz’ characters do after Dorothy went back to Kansas. overall I’m pleased with this, I like ‘the whole caught at work concept’, I also like how even though he now has a heart the Tinman is stuck with a job that puts him in a dark(ish) room, apparently mixing dangerous chemicals.
Tagged: illustration friday, Robots, spot illustration