Illustration Friday: Remember

This is another double - up for illo Friday this week. I decided to have a bash at doing an entry for mail me art and the theme just so happened to fit in with "remember". I haven't done anything real painting in a long time. So this one didn't come out as well as I had hoped, though I thought I'd post anyway, since I got this far on it. The photos are really dodgy as well as I took them with my phone camera as my good one just happened to run out of batteries...

Mr Postelthwaite

I watched Brassed Off for the umpteenth time again last night. I love that film. The last scene where the band plays on the open air bus is just gorgeous how Danny conducts solemnly from within the band. So I decided not to go to bed and do a portrait in painter of Postelthwaite. I found a lovely photo of him in Sydney and use that as my inspiration. My proportions are that great but I have to say I'm quite chuffed with the way this came out, it really exceeded my expectations...I haven't done a portrait like this in ages, since i was in high school so it was great getting back into it. And learning painter is lots of fun, this time i used the conte brushes and found how cool blenders are!
This week I want to focus on getting some new portfolio pieces together...lately i've been quite slack.

Illustration Friday: Polar

Well finally I've managed to put something really simple together for this week's illo friday. I've been so busy the last couple weeks my whole monster a day thing just got forgotten. I really have to be more disciplined with myself if I want to get a nice folio going...anyway here is my polar bear with his little stuffed penguin. Polar Opposites. It's my first play with painter...and I'm actually quite happy with this pic, it's not my best but it sure was fun playing with the brushes...almost like real painting but I have mister undo to help me out. Hope you like.

Ilustration Friday: SNAP!

My first thought for this topic was the card game snap, but then I thought of school pictures and how quickly they SNAP you...so most of the photos are pretty much a right off for the parents as the kid's are either blinking, looking away or picking their nose. And, to keep upwith my monster a day thing, here are my little monsters getting SNAPPED.
Also, go to my MOJI profile and check out my moji's...these kids'll be up there fairly soon.