Illustration Friday : : Ocean

This is a 3-panel spread I did in a Japanese Moleskine journal group. This artists theme was "underwater" and she has a thing for sock monkeys :)

Illustration Friday : Carry

This week's topic is "carry". What better thing to carry than food? This is an illustrated recipe card for a trade at Illustrated ATCs - an art trading site - lots of fun, check it out. The recipe is on the back :)

Hibernate : : Illustration Friday

Sure felt like hibernating yesterday.

Basically I did. Made stew. Made art. Read The Night Circus - what a wonderful book - one of those books that you want to read forever so I make myself stop so it will last longer. I'm a huge fan of anything old-time circus and magic.

Was going for a magical feel here, hope it works for you!

IF "Influence"

When my friend Jen and I go shopping we are each a bad influence on each other.

"You deserve it"

"You need those"

"They're calling your name"

"It was meant to be"

"You've been working really hard on your _________, you should treat yourself"

Sorry 'bout your face Jennifer, sometimes I nail things, other times not so much!

Obsession

Obsession on this week's Illustration Friday. I must have an obsession for crazy pink-haired women since I'm always drawing them. I definitely have an obsession with food, LOVE cooking. The eating part is fun too. And I'm kind of obsessed with doing a recipe for one of my favourite sites, They Draw and Cook. And now I'm on there, woot!!!!!

Perennial or Happy 39th Birthday! Again.

This week's Illustration Friday topic is perennial. What could be more perennial than a birthday?

This will be my 8th year of being 39! Just kidding, age really doesn't bother me.

Stay

It was soooooo difficult to stay on her diet...

Midsummer Night

Not my favourite Illustration Friday topic by any stretch. So I just did a quick, disgruntled fairy.

Launch

Have I said how much I love Illustration Friday? This week the topic is "launch". I wonder who the little wanker is going to launch those peas at...

A huge thank you to Christine; I won - yes, I know, I never win anything!!! - a copy of her book from her blog, and I am so excited because she is so talented. Now if the postal strike would end asap I can actually get the book.

Illustration Friday Swept

Whew, just made it this week. Hope you like!

Shadow

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." Maori Proverb

Always liked that quote. I remember it as "Turn your face toward the sun and smile and all your shadows will fall behind you" which I like better but who am I to mess with Maori?

For this week's Illustration Friday; hope you like it.

Asleep

This was for a children's book about a girl named Lily who was afraid to go to sleep. Seemed quite fitted to this week's Illustration Friday subject - asleep. Except, that well, she can't.

Illustration Friday "safari"

Not your typical safari but then they aren't a typical couple.

Lesson...

She never learned the lesson, if you want to stay up and party with the girls you still have to get up and work with the women.

Journey for Illustration Friday

This week's word is 'journey" and I thought I could go all "life's a journey blah blah blah" but that isn't me so just this simple little illo of a conundrum...

Bottled...

...for this week's Illustration Friday.

Toy for Illustration Friday

Oh my god, where to start? More importantly where to finish?! I love toys. I have far too many, especially retro ones, robots, heck even hot wheels. These two pics were for a clown theme but they're still toys. I'm sure I'll have to do at least one new image before the week is out.

Cultivate

What a perfect choice of topic for this week's Illustration Friday. Remember in grade one or two when you planted a seed in a plastic cup with a wet paper towel? It was so cool - magic even - to seem them start to sprout. I've been away for Illustration Friday for far too long so now I'm back!

They Draw and Cook

I really, really, really want to do a recipe to submit to this fabulous project.

Just browsing through the stuff already there is inspiring enough but I want to play too. So, this week I will make a recipe to submit. I swear. Here's a recipe I can't submit unless I make it in a different size. Plus they want spreads and all my recipes thus far are two-sided.



Now what to make...

The illos for the alphabet book are all finished with only 2 revisions out of 27 so I'm pretty happy 'bout that. I'll post some when I'm allowed - hush hush and all that.

I'll leave you with two little ATCs of the Boob Faerie. She visits girls in their early teens. She visited both my sisters and ran out by the time she got to me. As time goes by it looks like she visited my brother too!

Equipment

This week's Illustration Friday topic is "equipment" so I of course thought dirty and a guy "checking his equipment"! This is actually an ATC (artist trading card) that was created for a swap with the theme blind-drawn faces. So this little dude's face was drawn with my eyes closed - can you tell???! LOL

I may do another equipment entry before friday if I can.