illustration friday: dream
Boy, am I ever behind on these. I just haven’t felt like working in illustrator recently. Or doing my traditional cutsey cartoons. I think this makes up for a recent lack of both.
Illustration friday: sports
I am not a sporty girl. I’m just not, and never have been. So since Illustration Friday’s topic this week is sports, I’m gonna use an illustration whose concept was assigned to me by the sports desk when I worked at the Brock Press, and subsequently published. So it’s not new. Again.
But it’s still pretty neat, and it’s a work I’m really proud of. I think it is both kinda pretty, and fun for an infographic (which can be notoriously stodgy and boring - pie chart anyone? How about a line graph? No? Really?).
Although I am definitely not as much an expert as Annie Bissett. I personally think she’s awesome.
Then again, that one up there is an older illustration. I must’ve completed it a good few months ago, and my style is growing and changing by leaps and bounds. Maybe I could have reached true infographic nirvana back then, if I knew what I know now about texture.
illustration friday: hero
The Illustration Friday topic this week just happens to be: hero, and I just happen to have posted a illustration of my personal favourite superhero, Batman, just the other week.
So I’m wimping out and posting a link back to it (along with my review of the totally awesome new movie), instead of doing something new.
I suck, I know, I know.
But I’m sick and I don’t feel like working.
Nah.
illustration friday: b&w
Argh. I used to scoff at the concept of texture. I would see other people obsess about it - fashion designers, antique dealers, faux finishers, and of course my fellow artists and illustrators.
I was all about colour and form.
I did not care for texture.
Now all of a sudden I find myself obsessing over just how in the heck this dude manages to squeeze the most beautiful water-colour, gouache, ink and chalk look-alike images out of lowly little Adobe Illustrator. I mean, I’ve been really trying, really hard to replicate stuff so that it looks like it has a human touch to it, like it was created using traditional medium. I’ve even gone so so far as to re-introduce myself to the real stuff, but this guy comes along and makes me feel completely inadequate.
So if my interpretation of Black and White for illustration Friday seems a little simplistic, it’s because I spent a long while just trying to get the textures to look halfway decent.
I have come to believe that Steve Mack is either a liar, a magician or a genius. Or he at least needs to share his techniques. With me, preferably.
illustration friday: summer
This weeks Illustration Friday topic is Summer, and boy has it ever felt like it this past couple of weeks.
It’s only just now started to cool down with a good dousing of thunderstorms. I can’t believe it snowed in April, and was 40 degrees (celsius, with the humidity) by May.
But enough about the weather. Check out my illo, yo.
illustration friday: digital
A simple little image this time. A little cleaner and more minimal than I’ve been working recently. But I like it. It’s sort of an ode to imacs (I love that particular model, it’s soft curves are much fun to work with) and Diesel Sweeties, the creator of which was at TCAF. Which was kinda cool. Although I don’t keep up with webcomics as much as I should (other than Travis and Joe).
I was actually going to maybe attempt something non-digital, but then the theme itself was digital, sooo…
illustration friday: envy
Recently, I have been threatenting the talented people around me with brain stealing. My behavior may have something to do with the fact that my brain is in not-too-good shape (I could use a nice transplant), or possibly just because I am in the midst of a sudden burst of inferiority.
So, if you click on the brains above, you will be taken to see a few of the talented girls whose brains I envy.
