IF: Captain

I was trying to decide between Captain Hook or

Captain Nemo this week. Hook just came out when I was sketching. This is rough color sketch done in Painter. I have also posted my initial sketch and the line drawing I used in Painter.

IF: Emergency

It has been some time since I have posted anything. I want to try to get back in the habit of it. Like the commercial says 'life comes at you fast' and so many of the little things eat up time.

I really pictured this idea as a full spread for a

picture book. I wouldn't be able to put as much

detail into it as would have liked this week so I just did the characters for now. The elephant is the fireman at the zoo, using his trunk to put out the fires. This was done from a pencil drawing and colored in Painter.

IF: Cars

An image of Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows came to mind for the theme of cars.



I want to experiment with a few things painting this Illustration. I won't get it done this week so I thought I would go ahead and post the drawing. If I finish it I'll post it later.


I also have a color sketch started. So far it has been done in Painter with the Simple Water & Watercolor brushes.

IF: Signs

Just a last minute idea for a spot illustration.

A couple of tigers using sign language for "I love you".

Done in Painter from a pencil drawing.

IF: Remember

Remember to take your medicine.

Maybe that is why the dinosaurs are extinct. They

forgot to take their medicine.

I didn't get to post my polar image last week. I didn't

get it finished. I still haven't finished it but I thought
I would post it as a work in progress. If you click here it will take you it.

I apologize for my first link. I thought I double checked it before I submitted it. I had too many http's in it.

IF: Fortune

"It's good to be the King."

Mel Brooks - History of the World, Part I

If I had this kind of money I would wade in it and laugh maniacally too.

I tried experimenting with the acrylic brushes in Painter this week. I still need more practice to get the look I want. I added some shading and tone with the 'New Simple Water' brush on a gel layer

at about 50%.

Illustration Friday: GREEN

For the topic green an image of Mother Nature came to mind
bringing spring and lots of green with her. If you live in the
eastern U.S. you know she played a trick on us last week.
Summer one day and it was winter the next.

I still have dozens of little touches that I would like to finish
on this. Shading, highlights and so on. I don't know if I will
have time to do it this week so I thought I would go ahead and post it. I really wanted to try this in actual watercolor. I may go back sometime and try it.

I did this in the Painter once again with the charcoal and conte
brushes.

I always like to see people's sketches and how pieces progress
to the final image so I thought I would show mine on this. If you click here it will take you to a page showing the thumbnails.