Illustration Friday: I Spy

"I spy a clue Watson!"

This is just a little pencil

drawing that I finished in

Painter.

Illustration Friday: TOTAL

This little bunny tripped over his garden hoe and spilled his basket of carrots everywhere. Can you help him pick them up by counting them? There should be a total of 12 carrots.


It was kind of a tough topic this week. I racked my brain most of the weekend trying to think of something. About the only thing I could come up with was what might be a sample page from a counting book.

Again, I did this in Painter. I used mostly the charcoal, conte & chalk brushes.

Illustration Friday: WIRED

Not everyone is as happy to get braces but this little guy is glad to have his teeth wired. He knows he will need good choppers to cut down trees and work at the dam when he gets older.

This is just a quick little spot sketch I did and painted in Painter with the 'simple water' brush and conte brushes.

I apologize to everyone that has tried to view my entry this week and it wasn't there. I am not sure what is wrong. It is there one time and gone the next.

Illustration Friday: HIDE

I'm sure we can all remember doing something
wrong when we were kids and thinking if you

could hide long enough it would go away.

Don't worry that was an old lamp...Momma
Skunk wasn't too mad.

I tried something a little different this week.
I wanted to get more of a classic style. I did a
pencil drawing and used mostly the 'new simple
water' brush in Painter for the color.

IF: Communication

I noticed a few illustrations with the tin can phones.

I hope with all of the video games and other gadgets taking kids attention that they still try the old fashioned gizmos.

I rendered this in Painter IX from a scanned pencil drawing.

Illustration Friday: GRAVITY

It was no accident Humpty fell off that wall. He was pushed. Apparently he knew too much.Do you know pushed him? Here's a hint, he is wanted for stalking a little girl wearing red, harassing three pigs and causing property damage.

I actually did this illustration for last week's topic but it

fits this week's also....so since I did two last week I thought
I would resubmit this one. If I find some inspiration and
time I might try another illustration for this week.


This was painted in Painter IX using pastel and charcoal brushes.

Illustration Friday: CRASH 2

I had a couple of ideas for IF this week

so I thought I would go ahead and try

them both.

This is a little different look than I have

been trying for. I wanted it to look more like

a poster.

I was going to do a more elaborate scene with

other mice looking at the poster but I wouldn't

have time to complete it right now.