Illustration Friday: Fast

Contradancing can be fast and furious. Here's the button design for our dance weekend in November. It will be 2 1/4 inches around, and have different colored backgrounds. People will write their names in the center with a permanent marker.

Button

Oh dear. It's probably time to pass off the button-making duties to someone else. This is for our local contradance community's annual dance weekend. People write their name in permanent marker in the center of the button, and wear it all weekend. But I'm putting less and less time into designing them, and am less and less happy with the results.....

Dog

So...you might ask yourself...what kind of card does one make when one's ex-husband is getting married. It's a tough one. They're both dog people, and here was a dog drawing I'd started along time ago for some Illustration Friday topic--I don't even remember what--that I barely got started on. So I spent an hour or so with colored tissue paper and liquid gel medium. This scan does NOT have the colors right AT ALL. I don't know what the deal with my scanner and colored things is. But this is it. I folded it down the middle, cut two pieces of black paper for the inside, and wrote what I hope was an appropriate message.

Illustration Friday: Flying

Their souls are flying from their bodies.

It looks like this scan is way too light...yup, it is. I don't know what happened. You can't even see the purple in the picture. But I'm too tired to try to rescan it, so this is what it is.

Illustration Friday: Germs

Finally! On time, even. I'm trying to get back in the swing of things. I've been sketching in my sketchbook, but not making anything more "finished", not that you could really call this finished, but it's more detailed than the quick sketches I've been doing.

This man has a germ of an idea. It will come to fruition sometime in the near future.

Illustration Friday: Infinite

Yea! I finally posted something for Illustration Friday. I see infinity in the looks of some of these old people. They're not seeing the here and now, but all time, stretching back to original time and into a future they will not ever know.

Of course I didn't mean to drop ink on his forehead, which looks like a hole in his head.....

Maybe now I can get back into the swing of things. I had the stupid new puppy trying to chew bones and chase sticks underneath my legs the whole time I was working on this.

Illustration Friday: Magnify

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This is magnifying your fears, or your nightmares. Things seem so much worse at 4 in the morning than they do during the light of the day. I actually thought of doing this last week right when the topic came up, and even made a few little preliminary sketches, but I never got around to it. Too busy! But I don't want to stop making pictures, so I'd better get start making pictures regularly again. I'd like to print some off for cards to sell at the Bizarre Bizaar in November. It made me really happy to make this, even though I don't particularly like it. It looks better if you click on it to make it larger.