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Tag: illustration
Zodiac Cards
Eye Study no. 5
I want to make this series available as prints soon, once I have access to the large scanner at work again. As you can see, this latest one got a bit cut off at the bottom.
Eye Study no. 4
Eye Study no. 3
Day of the Dead
Here’s a quick spontaneous animation I made today for Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead.
Inktober 2017: Child Ballads
It’s the most wonderful time of the year again! My Inktober theme this year is Child Ballads: Monsters, Maidens, and Murder. Here are my sketches so far:
Come back here through October to see new drawings added to the list below! And you can listen along to the series with this playlist I made: https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/1232271124/playlist/4s2cfFeRAWQyYLdqX1u0OO
- The Devil’s Nine Questions/Riddles Wisely Expounded (#1)
- The Elfin Knight (#2)
- The Three Ravens/Twa Corbies (#26)
- The Mermaid (#289)
- Sheath and Knife (#16)
- King Orfeo (#19)
- The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea (#36)
- Edward (#13)
- Sweet William’s Ghost (#77)
- The Holland Handkerchief/The Suffolk Miracle (#272)
- Cockle Shells/Waly Waly (#204)
- False Knight on the Road (#3)
- Thomas the Rhymer (#37)
- The Farmer’s Curst Wife (#278)
- took a sick day, no drawing
- The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (#113)
- skull-heart thingy (took a break from drawing ballads)
- Barbara Allen (#84)
- another sick day
- The Unquiet Grave (#78)
- The Wife of Usher’s Well (#79)
- sick day
- sick day (rrgh)
- The Cruel Mother (#20)
- The Twa Sisters (#10)
illo_advent 2016
Here are the sketches I’ve done for #illo_advent so far. Hopefully I’ll have time to do a few more before the 25th!
Inktober 2016
This was my third Inktober and I wasn’t able to participate every single day this time, but I’m still pretty happy with ideas I came up with that I can develop into finished work. See my entries from the last two years below (the links will take you to my old blog)
Halloween Candy Coloring Page!
Here’s a free line drawing to print out and color in for Halloween! Just click on the picture to save it at its full 8.5×11″ size. If you color it in, show me what you did and I’ll share it on this post. Happy Halloween!
Pit Bull Pegasus Puppies
That’s purple pit bull pegasus puppies.
Pops!
Hopefully these are enough ice pops or ice lollies to tide you over till the end of summer. By next summer they should be available on clothing 😉
Teacup Mice
It’s Monday! Have you checked your cupboard for stowaways?
Sit on it!
Ugly 70’s couches, vinyl slipcovers optional but recommended.
Makeovers!
I wish I had makeup in all these colors so I could do real life RGB and CMYK-themed makeovers.
Moths
These started out as everyday practice sketches, but I decided to color them in. This is a portrait of a luna moth. Their wings get most of the attention, but they also have really fabulous antennae:
And this is a hornet moth (great example of mimicry here— I would definitely run the other way)
La Calavera
Illustration from an as-yet-unfinished Lotería deck.
“Al pasar por el panteón, me encontré un calaverón.” / “Passing by the cemetery, I met a really big skull.”
Give & Take
My dog is much more of a giver than a taker.
Fortunetelling
How many ways can you gaze into the future? Nearly everyone has tried anthomancy at least once, but what about lecanomancy, oomancy, ailuromancy, or if you can afford it, margaritomancy? The future really is everywhere you look.
Merraccoons
One merraccoon is cute and clumsy, the other is crafty and a bit creepy, but they are both excellent sea scavengers.
How do you like your eggs?
Please do not say “poached”— they aren’t attractive in this illustration style.
Daily Dog and a dude
Decisions, decisions…
These are very small details from the latest surface design pattern I’m working on. It’s the first in a series about microscopic images that I’m hoping to develop further. More on this later, when I’ve decided which colorways to use (probably all of them!)
Pink Poodle Party!
I will probably sell this as an art print, if it ever gets sunny enough to take clear photos again. The clouds have also been stealing the color from my flowers:
Goal for 2016: save up and buy a top-notch studio lamp!
Touch of Gray
Who doesn’t remember their first touch of gray? I was 26, on a bathroom break at work, when I saw mine. I told my salt and pepper haired boss, who groaned theatrically and said “It’s all downhill from there.”
