Illustration Friday - Detective

This is my illustration for the "Illustration-Friday" website. This weeks topic is detective. When I visualize a detective he is Sherlock Holmes. Not the cool Robert Downey Jr. version but the Basil Rathbone version. You can smell the dusty tweed jacket when you see him on the silver screen.



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If-Friday -> Linked

Hi all...This IF-Friday Illustration is now my Illustration-Sunday. When I thought of 'linked" the concept of links (Scottish slang for a golf course) came to mind. So I illustrated a fantasy golf hole. Since I don't golf (unless you count a rigorous 18 holes on the mini-putt) I like to see golfers in difficult situations. I can imagine a 14 year old boy at the bottom of the hole making a fortune collecting lost golf balls.


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Illustration Friday - Dip

This is my Illustration-Friday submission for April 9th, 2010. The topic is "dip".
I remember as a small child going to the circus and seeing a man climb up a tall ladder to reach a platform from which he planned on jumping into a small tub of water. It was frightening for me. My father told me not to worry, the man was just going to take a little "dip". So that is the memory I have with the word "dip". (I closed my eyes tight, and so never did see the spectacle - I opened my eyes at the sound of a roaring crowd.



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Illustration Friday - Rescued

This is my Illustration Friday entry. When I engage in a rescue, it is usually of a stray ladybug or spider caught inside the house, trying to get out. I gently pick him up, take him to the door, and gently send him on his way. I got to wondering about whether some bugs would rescue us if the bugs were the dominant species and we were pests.



It is a pen and ink drawing with pencil crayon. Hope you enjoy it.

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Cancer Bike Ride with Lance Armstrong

For the Postcard Image I ended up creating 2 images. I created a vector graphic in Illustrator of a bike rider. (thank goodness we have the pen tool). I then created a graphic of the four riders attached to one another. I then placed it on a glass button with the same image mapped on it like a shadow. It looks like a variation of Chinese Cloisonné to me.

The other image I used the same bike used above, but I wrapped it repeatedly around a cylinder. I created the LiveStrong wrist band in Illustrator using 3D, and mapped the text onto the bracelet.


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Illustration Friday - Expired

The Illustration Friday topic for March 26th, 2010 is "Expired". When I think of something that has expired, I think of bananas. I think that this is because they are one of the few items we buy that is past the expiration date on purpose. The best banana bread is made with bananas past their prime. Both bananas and people are best when they are wrinkly and past their prime :)


I sketched out this image using the brush tools in Adobe Photoshop CS4.


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Postcard for Self Promo

The portfolio card image. This uses the CorelDraw Self Promotion image that uses powerclips. It has then been taken into Photoshop for treatment, and a series of additional clockfaces created in Illustrator have been imported and treated in photoshop.



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