Well, this is it, the very last illustration for IAD 2007:
My stab at Halloween. I wanted to go for a different, sadder kind of scary. As with a few others this month, I really wish I had more time to smooth out the wrinkles, but the message I want to convey is there.
Medium: AI CS3
This was a quick one, but I packed it with a little extra absurdity:
One more to go.
Medium: AI CS3
This is an idea I've had stored in my brain for a long time. I was originally going to paint it, but it seemed to lend itself to IAD:
Medium: AI CS3
Medium: AI CS3
IAD nearly ended tonight as I was drawing this one:
Popping this one out was a psychological and creative struggle. The project is beginning to push me to the limit, mostly because of sleep deprivation.
Medium: AI CS3
My head feels like scrambled eggs. The 26th installment of Illustration a Day follows the colon:
Medium: AI CS3
I guess technically, it's stealing tree, because a bit of duplication was employed. More than likely, I'll revisit this one after the month breaks -- I'd love to give it a little more time and attention.
143 points to the first person who notices the very thinly-veiled homage to an eminent surrealist.
Medium: AI CS3
A quick one, a bit darker and simpler than usual:
Medium: AI CS3
Near, far. Near, far. I guess I like the whole "wide-angle" dynamic.
Medium: AI CS3
Titles are a bit of an afterthought, if it wasn't obvious already.
This one took a lot longer than I intended.
Medium: AI CS3
IAD 11, Open, was a quick sketch finished within a few minutes. I liked the idea and wanted to give it the full Adobe Illustrator treatment:
Although I'm pleased with the results from an artistic standpoint, I can't say it's one of my favorites. But I'm sure, just like the one with the pipes, a bunch of people will like it.
Here's another Illustration a Day entry. Only eleven to go.
I guess it's no secret that I'm a big fan of modernist illustration, specifically cartoon-type illustration. I try not to be too derivative, but I realize that I probably come pretty close to betraying my influences sometimes.
Medium: AI CS3
This one's dedicated to Dungeon Master Wargo:
Icosahedron, give me resolve.
Complimentary colors make-um file huge, even after chief's compression ceremony:
Medium: AI CS3 (again)
"The box! I choose the box!"
"OK, let's see what's in the box."
(A few of you know what comes next.)
Medium: AI CS3
Given a little extra time, I think this one could be even better. Click on it to see the bigger version; for this one, it's quite necessary:
But this is illustration a day. I'll have to make the changes and post it during illustration as you please.
Medium: AI CS3 (Adobe Illustrator CS3, for those of you who may have forgotten.)
A bit of a Mr. Chompins redux:
Mr. Chompins, you see, takes to the nighttime skies in pursuit of misbehaving, disrespectful children, whom he eats.
Medium: AI CS3
Illustration a day continues with BANINJA.
Textures: PS CS3
Illustration: AI CS3
Request filled:
I didn't comply 100% with Alex's original request ("I request a picture of an astronaut with space-rockets lined up for launch behind him, and behind them, a blue sky. The astronaut should also be holding a fresh, hot pie of some sort. Maybe there should be bikini-clad graduate students reflected in his visor, washing an official NASA pie truck."), but I dare say I improved on it. You be the judge.
Medium: AI CS3 (but of course!)
More (click it to see the biggun'):
Medium: AI CS3
When I was in Thailand a few years ago, I ran across a mural detailing the Ramakien, a mythology imported from India. Part of the mural depicts a scene in which one of the heroic characters (Hanuman, I think) expands his own head until it is the size of a building. He does this to disguise himself. People walk into his mouth and they don't realize it's alive. This idea has become a minor obsession of mine over the years. I started drawing a stream-of-consciousness piece and it crept in (or out, or whatever) again:
Medium: Pencil (Dixon Ticonderoga!) and Paper
Another in the style of Feeshes:
Textures: PS CS3
Medium: AI CS3
I don't know why I keep going back to themes of oral hygiene; I've got good teeth and I've never feared the dentist. Maybe Dental Mania has indeed taken hold.
Medium: AI CS3
Media: Photoshop CS3 & AI CS3
Medium: AI CS3
Ironic utensils should be the required desktop background images on every computer.
"No way!?" says ye.
"WAY!" I exclaim, "So way!"
Medium: AI CS3
Available in other sizes and desktop-background-friendly dimensions upon request.
I had this idea... a forest made of all metal scraps. So I started drawing this tree and it ended up being a torturous mess. The effect I created to give the pipes dimension, in cooperation with a light drop shadow (for depth) crashed my computer about a dozen times. So I wrapped this one up and called it quits.
To be entirely honest, it doesn't fit into what I normally like to do, but here it is anyway, my very own Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
Medium: AI CS3
Text added for feeling.
Medium: Pencil & Paper
Illustration a Day continues with...
Medium: AI CS3
Any requests?
Media: Pencil & Paper/AI CS3
October is here, which means the second annual Unloosen Awareness Month is also here. This year, to celebrate the awareness, I've decided to post a new illustration every day for the next 31 days. I figured I might as well start things off right, so here goes:
Medium: Adobe Illustrator CS3
