Saturday, September 26, 2009

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)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

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.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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.)

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

He's Just a Bill




In honor of my friend's birthday I present another Schoolhouse Rock drawing. Much like the cartoon character my friend is also "just a Bill".

There are other August birthday's I need to acknowledge, but I don't know how to draw: "She's just a Beverly!", "She's just an Amy!", or "She's just a Bonnie!"