Illustration Friday: Fat [MAN]

Considering current events I was compelled to illustrate a simple political message. Since this is Mothers Day weekend and most people are not aware of the true origins of this particular holiday The message should be clear. I hope more mothers will be able to hug their sons and daughters this year.

The image depicts FatMan. Unfortunately the parachute tail should be square.

Illustration Friday: Spring

This is probably my fastest submission. (I had the idea immediately when I received the topic.) For the past two Sundays, I volunteered here and here. I had the pleasure of seeing and listening to American Robins on the way home.

I have been reading, "The Natural Way to Draw : A Working Plan for Art Study" and, "Keys to Drawing." I am looking forward to adapting some lessons to improve my digital skills as I develop my analog skills.

On that note, I found this Interesting Reuters article (something to debate another day).

Illustration Friday Remix: Night

Occasionally I will revisit some of my previous posts to examine how changing some elements will improve the message. In this case, I am revisiting my first illustration friday submission. This time it is a vector image stressing the flare tool. At the moment I will not consider the reflection of the sun in the water. I imagine I am losing some of the emotional impact of the first submission for an effect. With practice, I hope the loss will not be as dramatic. I am pleased enough with the result to make this my first masthead.

Illustration Friday: Insect Take One

Submission for illustration friday best viewed at full zoom or larger. I wanted to, "restrain" myself to keep a, "check" on my artistic, "expression." I think I will attempt additional submissions on this topic but on a different slant.

ifri-tea001

I hope I get this in before the new topic is posted. I actually did most of the work for this image on Friday, February 24th. I sketched my hand upside-down; scanned the image; an traced the scan in Illustrator CS2 (after some experiments with color blends). I could probably do more to the image but I need to close this and move on to another project. This image and the two simple submissions are examples of my efforts to gain some mastery with color blends.

Illustration Friday: Simple II

This is my second attempt at the illustration friday topic: Simple. As mentioned here in my previous post. I will miss the simple pleasure that is Cheese (depicted here) during my eight-week detox.

Illustration Friday: Simple

This is my third attempt. I am not sure why the transparency looks so unacceptable. In the future I think I will need to look at where I post a specific type of image. Please read my first attempt for details.

I am not sure why the previous post did looks so bad but here is a second try please read the previous post for details.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Illustration Friday: Simple

ifri-simple001, originally uploaded by smith_cl9.

Finally I have returned from my self imposed down time. I have been reading most of the past two months. I need to start transferring some of my Ideas to lucid images to upload. On a positive note, I have found that one great source of inspiration for me is to work on lettering. I have always worked on calligraphy (although as my lettering abilities improved I have not improved my penmanship). The combination of the Illustrator brush tool and WACOM tablet is perfect for my left-handed affliction. The typeface used here is my personal favorite, Carolingian minuscule. I will be trying to transfer some typefaces into a paddoc.

For this Illustration Friday Submission. I was thinking about my impending eight-week detox (starting and extending past lent) which is mentioned here. This is the same detox Morgan Spurlock used to recover following the thirty day McDonalds Binge. This is my second time detoxing. During my first detox (September 2005 until my birthday 2005) I found the only thing I truly missed was cheese. When I finish this spring detox, I will probably celebrate will a porterhouse (depicted here) a true, SIMPLE pleasure.