IF Ahead (#8)

A few weeks ago the Illustration Friday topic was 'Ahead'. Ironically I'm behind in posting the picture I drew based on one of my Dad's bad puns.

IF Detective

This week's Illustration Friday topic is 'Detective'. So here's Lil' Skel as a 1940's private detective. Originally I was going to put him in a Sherlock Holmes style hat but I couldn't quite figure out how to make it look right on his head.

IF Clumsy

Giraffes look naturally clumsy. Put one on roller blades and it only looks more so.

IF Confined

Sometimes I feel confined by my cubicle at work and just need to escape.

IF Renewal

I combined the sun and moon and yin and yang for this week's Illustration Friday topic "Renewal". I'm also attempting to renew my resolution to post more drawings on my blog in 2010.

Happy New Year! I hope your 2010 is better than your 2009.

P.S. I'm saying "twenty-ten" instead of "two thousand-ten". New decade, new pronunciation.

IF Pattern

I stumbled across a contest on the web to create your own Mountain Dew can. Being a Mt. Dew drinker I gave it a shot and came up with my own Mt. Dew logo. I'm reusing that logo to create a pattern for this week's Illustration Friday topic on "Pattern". (click on image for larger view)

IF Infinite

This week's Illustration Friday topic is "Infinite" and I really struggled at first to come up with an idea. However, when I was working on another drawing that required an image of a drop it sparked an idea in my head. This image is meant to illustrate that there is infinite love and infinite pain in the universe. (oooh, very deep and mystical)

I didn't want to just have a plain white background so at first I toyed with the idea of a starry background to represent the universe. Then I realized the thorns would just get lost on that background. I switched to a flesh tone background as I thought this image might look cool as a tattoo.

IF Magnify & Strong

I never got a chance to submit for last week's Illustration Friday topic "Magnify". I thought I'd combine it with this week's topic "Strong" and show the super strong ant up close.

IF Caution

When I heard that "Caution" was this week's Illustration Friday topic I immediately thought of caution road signs. I brainstormed several different ideas but finally settled on the image above. It means "Caution - Nerd Ahead". (taped glasses being the international symbol for nerds.)

IF Wrapped

This weeks Illustration Friday topic is "Wrapped". Two things immediately came to mind when I heard the topic:
1) Birthday/Xmas presents
2) The old game where you wrap somebody like a mummy using toilet paper

I think you can tell which way I decided to go. Though I guess I could have had the mummy carrying a 5000 year old birthday gift too.

IF Modify

This week's Illustration Friday topic is Modify. I immediately thought of genetically modified food, or as Europeans call it 'Frankenfood'. With enough growth hormones and steroids our cows might start looking like the drawing above. I think if I saw a cow like that coming for me I'd modify my diet to vegetarian.

IF Subtract

This week's Illustration Friday topic is subtract. It got me thinking back to learning basic math facts in elementary school. Being a child of the 70s my parents bought me the "Little Professor" calculator to help me practice my math. An electronic version of flash cards.

I actually found this in the basement a year or so ago (the benefits/curse of being in a family of pack rats) and it still worked. I gave it to my oldest daughter to use but I believe she just thinks it's an antique. (and she's not necessarily wrong)

IF Celebrate

Halflings (i.e. Hobbits) love food. Whenever they get together in large groups they celebrate with a food fight.

I was actually working on the image above as a logo for a Bloodbowl team I created called "Fling 'n' Food". But the story above also makes the image work for this week's Illustration Friday topic: celebrate.

IF Time

I got sick last week and, ironically, didn't have time to post an image for the Illustration Friday topic: Time. Off to go work on this week's topic: Celebrate

IF Pale

The Illustration Friday topic this week is pale. What could make a person more pale than the economic headlines these days?

IF Pretend

When I was a kid I used to pretend to be Han Solo...

IF Wise

For the Illustration Friday theme 'wise' I immediately thought of a wise old owl. Then I remembered that I used to eat Wise potato chips when I spent summers with my grandparents in upstate New York. Wise potato chips must be an east coast thing as I've never seen them here in the midwest.

Here is my attempt at the old Wise Potato Chips logo. Overtime the logo evolved into just the owl's eye. I remember sort of being creeped out by that eye as a kid.

IF Repair

The global economy is in need of repair. Unfortunately the $700B bailout by the US government doesn't seem to be stemming the tide.

IF Late / IF String

This week's Illustration Friday topic is "Late", which is ironic since I was late submitting for last week's topic "String". Above is a drawing of a string of insults. If I have time this week I will add another drawing for "Late".

IF: Sugary

This week's Illustration Friday topic is 'Sugary' and what is more sugary than kids cereal?

As Halloween approaches the General Mills "Monster Cereals" (Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo Berry) will make their returns to a store near you. I did the drawings above last year with my ideas of four new "Monster Cereals". From top-to-bottom they are: Creature from the Froot Lagoon, Giant Ape Grape, Nosferatutti Frutti, and Raisin the Dead.