Fish Monster

Decided to do a monster just for the fun of it. Tried to apply more of my new found muscle knowledge. I'm pretty happy with it :)

IF: Acrobat

I've not done an Illustration Friday for a while and it's good to be back. At first I was going to go stylised as I haven't done much anatomy stuff yet but one of my rough sketches involved proper muscle and it just seemed to work for me. A couple of weeks ago I dived into learning human anatomy and then I put it all aside and just left it. This is actually the first proper drawing I have done that uses what I learned so I am quite pleased with it. I didn't use any reference material either. In a few months I will probably notice a lot of things wrong with it. Please feel free to comment on things that don't look right to you. It all helps me improve. I know I need to work on my hands. Now I just have to work out if a gymnast counts as an acrobat as it kind of went that way when I was colouring it.

IF: Giant

I had a difficult time working out what I wanted to do this week. The word was a brilliant one but it meant I kept coming up with different ideas and couldn't decide what to stick with. I knew I wanted to practice something with perspective because I wasn't happy with how I did the plane in last weeks illustration. That's when I discovered a dvd about matte painting so decided to try that out and just add something gigantic in the background, eventually settled on a giant scorpion fighting a giant dinosaur. As you do.

IF: Satellite

Here is my picture for satellite. I thought I'd try something a little different this time and attempt a photoshop painting. I'm quite happy with how Kong turned out but not so sure about the plane in the foreground. I wanted to keep it sketchy and get energy into the picture but I think it might have been better if I was better at rendering things properly. Something to work on in the future.

Also I tried to make it look like Kong was swiping his arm but I'm not sure it comes across.

IF: paisley

This is my Illustration Friday submission for "paisley". I was thinking of ideas for what to do and when I looked at some paisley designs I thought to myself, "They look like amebas/bacteria things", so that is what I did.

Ripple

This is my Illustration Friday Installment for Ripple. It's not very good. I've not spent much time on it because I want to concentrate on my writing this week instead. However I felt it was important to at least attempt something. So I drew a grumpy Gnome who is tried of fishing. I tried to do it in a watercolour type style.

Trail

For this weeks Illustration friday image I wasn't sure it was going to work as it's a very long illustration. I was hoping that the browser would show the whole thing and let you zoom in but it only lets you zoom in a little. Oh well, worth a try.

The word was trail so here is the story behind it, Hansel and Gretel are leaving a trail of breadcrumbs which are being eaten by Red Riding Hood. Red is leaving a scent trail which is being followed by the wolf. The wolf is leaving a paw print trail which is being followed by the woodcutter.

Update: I decided to cut up the picture and add it this way as well so people could see it better.