Illustration Friday: Baby

These were done for this room, in Whirled:



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Illustration Friday: Wide

Ok, so this was originally done for Wrinkle, but wasn't finished in time. Luckily, elephants are wide as well as wrinkly. Photoshop and Cintiq.

I gots me a Cintiq.

For my birthday I bought myself a Cintiq. And I did some doodles. :D

Illustration Friday: Save

Went to Tilden Park in Berkeley on Easter and did this little sketch...thought it fit the topic of "Save" - Save the Earth! Such a beautiful park, so glad its there for people to enjoy.

IF: Leap, part 2

This is a Christmas gift I made for my girlfriend, but it fit the topic of "Leap" too well not to post. She's a dancer and loves leaping...and also likes pandas. The Chinese characters you see actually say "bear" + "cat"...which is panda. Did you know Pandas weren't discovered until the 1860s?

IF: Leap

I don't think I've ever completed an IF topic in one day, on the first day. But today was Leap Day and I had to do it. This is a little less cartoony than usual for me. TabletPC and Photoshop.

Illustration Friday: Multiple

Multiple cups of tea, that is. This was a Christmas present for my mom, these are her two cats.

Illustration Friday: Choose

This alley cat's got lots of delicious garbage to choose from! This is my sister's cat, James, who enjoys eating anything. (Pasta, eggplant, cookies, beans, bread, etc.)

Illustration Friday: Tales and Legends

I guess this is more "Tails and Legends"...ha! Sorry. Dog pirates! Done on real paper...with real paint.

Illustration Friday: The Zoo

I wanted to draw a panda. And it came out sad.

Illustration Friday: Scale

I really have no idea what's going on here...but one is big and one is small.

Illustration Friday: Hat

It's a Spanish "No" hat! (The little balls jingle when you shake your head.) Does anyone know what it's really called?

Illustration Friday: Trick or Treat Pt. 2

Did this illustration for a party invitation for work. (Turned off the text, tho.)

Illustration Friday: Trick or Treat

Sexy wizard! Wooo!! Finally had time to do something for fun. :D

Illustration Friday: Momentum

Dancing cats! This is a piece for an upcoming benefit auction in Berkeley this November. (For an animal shelter.) I am working on two more (smaller) pieces that will also be for sale. More info on the auction to come soon. Acrylic on paper, 11x11".

Illustration Friday: Captain

Seeing as how I work at Three Rings, with people like this, 'Captain' was a very fitting theme. (I know the perspective is wonky, but I'm too tired to fix it!) I'm busy busy busy, sorry lack of posts.

Illustration Friday: Poem

It's been a little while, but I'm back with a new one for IF. I'm a fan of e.e. cummings, so I chose one of his poems for inspiration.

who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where

always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves

Illustration Friday: Geeky

I unfortunately missed last week's topic of 'twist' because I was finishing up this painting for the Narnia Fan Art Contest...which is by far one of the more geeky things I've done lately. It's a scene from the book "Prince Caspian"...when Lucy first sees Aslan in the forest. The contest had some ridiculous rules about not including human likenesses...I hope I can get away with tree people.

Illustration Friday: Camouflage

Under 2 hours! That's good. For me. :D

(Apologies to pascal and ian for blatantly trying to emulate their awesomeness.) And for anyone who hasn't seen it yet...Ratatouille opens tomorrow!! Victor Haboush calls it "the best animated film since Pinnochio." And that's coming from a guy who worked on Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmations. Damn!

Illustration Friday: Rejection

Ehhhhh...