Seems like at least a dogs year since I did anything for Illustration Friday, But yesterday I was relaxing at Starbucks with my iPad and figured I’d take an hour or so and knock together something for this weeks theme ‘Beginner’ - not 100% happy with the color, but pretty happy overall - aside from posting this from my desktop computer this illustration is 100% iPad, which is quickly becoming my favorite tool for little spot illustrations.
Feeling all kinds of gobliny today - took 15 minutes and knocked this silly goblin out in inkPad. Amazing how liberating it feels to draw for drawings sake.
Lately I’ve been really enjoying drawing on my iPad, Last week I bought inkPad, really nice - the developers are obviously AI users, they’ve boiled AI functionality down to the drawing part (which IMHO is what Adobe should have done when they released InDesign) anyway really decent app, drop export, multiple formats (most notably svg,png,pdf), dropbox support. But the best thing about it is the pen tool - took me less than 5 seconds to wrap my head around the subtleties of drawing corner and curved points with my finger tips. All the spots above are 100% straight from inkPad, although I could easily edit them in AI if I needed too. I haven’t used inkPad for any client work yet, but that’s only a matter of time. Anyhow check it out, it’s 5 bucks.
Had a 75 minute conference call- had a bit of fun during it… this style is SO relaxing. CLICK IMAGE FOR DETAIL
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.
Tagged: illustration friday, spot illustration