11/04/10

"Spent", digital for Illustration Friday. 

5/17/10 - Illustration Friday - Equipment

I decided to illustrate the tools of the trade.  There should probably be a palette box, paints, and a crapload of more brushes, but on a daily routine, this is usually it.

100th post! Illustration Friday - Wrapped

It's a wrap for the wrapped rapper.

So this is about 5 days late, but with all the craziness last week getting ready for the SF Zine Fest, I think I have a valid excuse for waiting on this one.

Anyhoo, E and I have decided to really step up our game after all the great feedback we got from the Zine Fest. I think that if people had come to the zine fest really expecting to spend money (like people going to APE or Renegade do) we would have done even better.

Eve even sold one of her Illustration 1 paintings! Seriously, how many students sell the VERY FIRST assignment of Illustration 1 done in gouache? Not many, I'd expect. Anyway, I sold a painting, a few prints, and Eve made up some nice digital reproductions of her paintings. We ended up doing fairly well, and we're weighing our options about attending APE as an exhibitor this year. We shall see if the budget allows.

It was really great to see people that I haven't seen in a while, and it was awesome meeting tons of great new peeps! I managed some sweet trades (esp. Cough zine #6 and Sean Logic's Myspace Swindle zine - both highly recommended and done by cool-ass people) and our bookbinding workshop was an overwhelming success.

Anyway, we've been overhauling our Monkey + Seal site, so go check it out, as I'll probably be blogging over there much more than over here. Updates go up there MWF. Peace!

Illustration Friday - Modify

The damage they would do, they realized far too late, would be thoroughly irreversible and would be the cause of their own demise.

Quick sketch (1 hr or so) in Photoshop CS3. Much to work on, yet it's almost 3am so I'm off to sleep.

Illustration Friday - Idle

The tangerine sat there, motionless and waiting, its fate inevitably sealed.

Illustration Friday - Tango

Although filled with heat and passion, the tango, for some, is known as the Dance of the Dead.



Marginally finished on time, I wanted to for something that was moody, yet captured the energy of the tango. So, I made vampires (although you can't really tell) doing the tango so fast the lady vampire's shoe is sparking due to the friction.

Illustration Friday - Hollow

Quick and dirty sketch - I think a lot of the mark making and the roughness of it sort of adds to the piece though, so I kept it in.

The small girl and her magical charm is the only hope for the hollow being that has been following her and plaguing her classmates, feeding off their fear and insecurities.

Illustration Friday - Shaky

Ug, drew this two weeks ago, didn't get a chance to scan and color until today. Anyway, everything seems a bit Shaky about this one, from the support beams to the precarious situation the acrobat is in. Looks like the cat has her routine down, but she seems pretty upset that her show partner doesn't.

Illustration Friday - Drifting

After her escape, her heart was finally at rest. She smiled until the very end...

Illustration Friday - Unfold

What story will unfold for our intrepid heroes as they speed along the narrow ice bridge to the Castle of Frozen Doom? (cue brooding atmospheric music).

Old, old, old Illustration Friday topic

Contagious...cuz it's a zombie yawning...like, contagious as in viral infection, as well as how yawns are contagious??!?!?! Get it? Sigh.

*edit - btw, sorry Ill Friday people. I didn't realize that the Ill.Fri. doesn't categorize all the posts, so even though I went to the correct topic, it still shows up the the most recent topic area. Whoops.

Illustration Friday - Cracked

Yeah, I missed the deadline for this, but I'm illustrating it anyway. Pretty self-explanatory.

Illustration Friday - Craving

Somebody's craving some good ol' fashioned organic brains, fresh from the source...