Illustration Friday - Rain (what else would you do?!)

Well this week I decided to spend a little more time on my illo friday as I am in desperate need for creative outlet, which tends to happen when work gets mundane. So I gave myself a task. I am going to be starting some concept art for a short animated film I've written, and want the colour styling to be like that of Bruegel's and Bosch's works. Very warm and yellow. So I am going to start by using illo friday's theme to help me get into that. Unfortunately the rain topic made it a little difficult get into yellows...but I'm quite happy with the way it turned out, for only a day's work.

Illustration Friday - Dance baby Dance

"School Recital Night"

All I could think of when I saw the topic for this week's Illo Friday was "dance" were the school recitals I did when I was in primary school. They always involed my mum being up all night for a week making costumes for me and my brother and sister. And they were always ridiculous costumes...So here is my little ballet bear. She's so cute.

Illustration Friday - Cake...mmm...cake

Finally a spare moment for me to do some drawing and experimenting. I called in sick to work today, only had a 3 hour shift and I still had to go to the doc to get a certificate...grrr. Not too happy with that. It's only a casual job!
But anyhoo, I managed to spend some time in bed doing some doodling and wound up with this. It's my first attempt at painting in photoshop, so I'm still getting the hang of it, but for a first attempt I'm quite happy. Hopefully I'll manage to do some more experimentation down the line with this look. My awesome friend Adele showed me how she does it...go to her web site - her stuff ROCKS!

Well I hope you like this...soon I hope to have my website finished and am going to do up a customised blog for that, so it shouldn't be too long before Daisy is truly web based.

Illustration Friday - FAT

I did this one really quickly, as I was instantly inspired by Augustus Gloop, my favourite fatty from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Don't know why I didn't give him feet...he probably needs them to catch the chocolate...but it's not like he needs the chocolate, now is it...

I put in two different ones cause I cant make up my mind which I like better. Think I like the white one so far.

The Veggie Plot

I am re-illustrating an ebook I did for my grandma (she's written loads of children's education books) and have just started mucking around with concepts. This is just an idea, and hopefully I'll get into the full swing of it and go nuts. (Yes, I did steal the sea from my illustration Friday...)

llusration Friday - Under the Sea

This is not only my first go at llustration Friday, but also my first post...yay! I hope that everyone enjoys my work and whatever I decide to post in the future.

I liked the idea of fish pirates, so thats what I drew. It was fun and refreshing to do something for no particular reason, just to draw...