Two Illustrations

Two illustrations I offered to go with poems in The Nail magazine. Above is a self-portrait as alcoholic for "Loose Change", and below one for "Mapmaker" (went on Camel Exchange blog in more minimal stage).I'm not sure about the Mapmaker illo, I think I overdid it in the wrong way. The Loose Change man though, I am pretty pleased with. I dressed up in my old heavy coat and took some digital pics to draw from, textured with crayon, and then given extra moodiness with digital manouvering.

Dredgonaut

The Hanged Man's Song

Illustration for a poem in the new Nail magazine.

The Great Gravity Switch-Off

Illustration Friday: Gravity

Astronomy

Happy Valentine's Day

Proposed illustration for the new issue of the
Oxford-based poetry magazine The Nail.

Switch that Off and Try the Door

Well here we go into the unknown yonder.

A heartfelt thankyou to all you who have looked in on me in the past,and I'll be delighted if you choose to come along on my explorations again.

(I will now be dating my artwork if I remember - this is 30th Jan 07)

Wind-blown Parrot Ship

A slice of whimsical silliness for Illustration Friday: Wind.I think hats and umbrellas would have been the more conventional approach, but here are some large multi-coloured motes being blown around with a hapless parrot in its crazy ship.

Illustration Friday: RUN

Hff, Huff, Wait! Last minute illo!
This is inspired by the following bit of writing:

As he stared through the open window and watched each span of telegraph-wires sink slowly down till the next telegraph-post pulled them upward with a jerk, he indulged himself in a sensation of imagining himself to be a prehistoric giant who, with an effortless ease, ran along by the side of the train, leaping over hedges, ditches, lanes, and ponds, and easily rivalled, in natural-born silent speed, the noisy mechanism of all those pistons and cog-wheels!
from Wolf Solent, by John Cowper Powys, first published 1929

A beautiful novel which I haven't read yet, but started again while walking in Kentish countryside recently.

Illustration Friday

Snail World

Table and Chair Playing Footsy

The Illustration Friday theme this week is "CHAIR", so here's a quick reworking of a recent b&w doodle.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Illustration Friday: Sea

Flavour of the week

Illustration Friday: Flavor. I've anglicised the spelling, perhaps I like drawing U. The tongue is wrapped around a hybrid lemange (or is that oramon). Here's to a fantastic year of cookery!

Blue Discovery in a Reddish World

Illustration Friday: BLUE

Cosmonaughty

Some prankster always switches to zero-gravity during the annual Astronaut & Cosmonaut Reunion Party.

My bid for this week's Illustration Friday challenge which is FLOAT. Incidentally, drawing drinkers floating in space has never been done better than Herge in Explorers on the Moon, where Captain Haddock tussles with a floating ball of whiskey. I'm sure the guy on the left losing his bottle is based on my memory of that famous Tintin episode..

The Aging Elephant

"What!! Is that a new wrinkle I espy?!"
My own take on the topic of 'aging' for Illustration Friday.

Jazz Sound

A variation on the jazz illustrations from February. Try here for "A Moment of Music", or here for "Jazz".

Illustration Friday: Metropolitan. This could in theory go on and on...but I thought I'd stop with an A4's worth, otherwise it would never get posted in time.

Over the Hills and Far Away

Illustration Friday: Travel. Clicking on this will make it nice and big!

I thought of several things I couldn't draw, but then luckily I remembered my naive hill technique, and had fun with that instead. Black & white on orange seems quite striking, but I'll have a go at colouring the whole thing.

Illustration Friday: Bloom

I enjoyed drawing this, though I might have taken on rather too many flowers! Maybe next time I'll limit myself to 10 minutes, and do a lightning sketch for once. When these concepts Spring to mind though, it seems a shame not to try and realise them...I did stop at the old gardener character who was going to be pushing down the plunger! The funniest thing is, that I find wheelbarrows a really groovy thing to do.
Go to the Illustration Friday site for more folks' Blooms.

Illustration Friday: Friendship

This is my first contribution to the weekly theme at Illustration Friday and hopefully not the last... Doing this inspired me to take my first faltering steps into colouring a doodle with the computer; and thankyou I.F. for inspiring this image in the first place!