Illustration a Day 10/07: October 2007 Archives
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
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
IAD 18: Dry
ByGiven 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
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!)
IAD 11: Open
ByWhen 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
IAD 9: Fresh
ByIAD 5: Tree?
ByI 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
IAD 2: Worms
ByMedia: Pencil & Paper/AI CS3