Friday, January 22, 2010

IF: Clumsy

I just drew the first thing that came to mind. Well, actually the fist thing I thought of was a guy bumping into a wall. But then for some reason I imagined that would make his head slip off. I don't know why.


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Monday, November 30, 2009

IF: entangled

I imagine that killing a tangley worm dragon would be a difficult task.


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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

IF: unbalanced

How I arrived at my final drawing for this week's Illustration Friday topic.
First: come up with an idea.




Step #2: Draw something unrelated.


Pick a sketch and redraw it.


Vectorize (in Illustrator)


and colorize (in Photoshop)


UPDATE [Dec 9, 2009]
After getting a critique from an Illustration Mundo forum, I did a little reworking.

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Friday, October 23, 2009

IF: fast

Steve pulls a fast one using the old "cute puppy" ploy

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

IF: frozen

The weatherman said it was 70, but it felt colder.

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Friday, September 25, 2009

IF: Pattern

This is what I would do if I were to draw something for this week's Illustration Friday.



If you can't detect the pattern through my messy scribbling, here's the solution:



(C= Leg stretch, M= Arm stretch and Y=Head strech)

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

IF: welcome

Sometimes you just can't trust those mats.

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

IF: Magnify

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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Messing around with markers

Luckily, that guy is not too wrapped up in wrapping dumplings to notice a needy mummy.
Continuing with the multicultural theme, does anyone here speak Spanish? Because I don't.


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Thursday, August 6, 2009

IF: modify

I was trying not to draw anything for Illustration Friday this week. But how can you resist a word like modify?

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Friday, July 24, 2009

IF: Idle

Cylinder #4 is misfiring on my car. It doesn't idle well at the moment. Time for new set of spark plugs maybe?






















Also, I've been meaning to glue that bumper back on.

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Friday, July 10, 2009

IF: Hollow

There is a saying about the "God shaped hole" in all of us. It's true for me at least.
Of course I seem to have other "holes" but now this is really getting weird.























(from http://hindsfoot.org/godsha.html)
Pascal (1623-1662) wrote in his Pensees (10.148):1

What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

IF: Parade

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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Deck of Cards

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

IF: impossibility

Winning a tickle fight with an elephant would be impossible for a number of reasons. For one, I imagine that an elephant would be a little heavy-handed.

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Monday, February 16, 2009

IF: Celebrate

I suppose that my previous post is reason for celebration.

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Monday, January 26, 2009

IF: climbing

(You might want to click on the picture to get a better view)
This is the corporate ladder. From looking at other people's posts, it seems that there is also a social ladder. I didn't know about that one.

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

IF: Resolve






















I know you can't squeeze blood from a stone... Still, you have to admire his resolve.

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Friday, November 7, 2008

IF: Wise



Mr. Rutherford is very smart... but a little low in the wisdom department.

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Friday, September 26, 2008

IF: packed



















Those worms are really packed in.
That's good enough for this topic, right?

Before you judge me to be some sort of weird worm squishing type person, you should know that this drawing is not strictly biographical. The man on the left is a combination of the characteristics of three muskrats whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture... and I would never stand in a bucket of worms that big. Too much death and wormshed... gross.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

IF: canned

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

IF: Sour























Expression experiment:
I was going for sour, yet delicious, but I think I ended up with some sort of mouthless mancreature.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

IF: fierce



















Begbeard the Pirate:
The fiercest pirate to sail Lake Michigan

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Monday, May 12, 2008

IF: electricity















His name is huestis. Incidentally, that's as far as I thought this one through.

Oh, here is an idea I didn't go with. But I like it more now. So I think I'll post it too.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

IF: pet peeves

























If I had a pet Peeve, I would feed it microwaved brie and out-of-register newspaper ads.
(I wasn't going to post this because these beastly drawings aren't really "my thing" but... then i posted it... oh well.)

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

IF: Theory


















(Click on the image for a better view)

This is my theory on why animals never evolved the ability to speak. It's really difficult to evolve all the qualities that you need in order to become a higher life form all at the same time, you know. In this specific case, I'm pretty sure that the man is creeped out by the animal's request and will subsequently fashion a pointy ended weapon with the intention of cutting off a branch of the Phylogenetic tree. I don't like that man. But what do you want me to do? Erase him?

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

IF: Choose

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

IF: Tales and Legends
















Although Bob doubted the practicality of his discovery, he was sure he could get a pretty good price for it on eBay.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

IF: Stitch

























After all, it is a very complicated process

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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

IF: Soar(t of)























Where do banana peel gags come from anyway?

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Friday, November 30, 2007

IF: excess





















Okay, I don't really understand this song... But I'm sure that a gift of 8 maids to do the milking is more than plenty. Not to mention the gifts on the other 11 days of Christmas.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

IF: Scale

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