Category: illustration
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Girl on a Flying Sheep
For several years (yes, years) I’ve been wanting to do a children’s book for my oldest daughter. I want to write one for both of them, but this idea actually came about before my second daughter was born or even conceived. Anyway, for various reasons I’ve not done it, so recently I decided it was…
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Giant Confusion
A new drawing for Illustration Friday. This week’s theme is “tall.” This work was done using Procreate on the new iPad, with a bamboo stylus.
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Tree Sketch
I did this the other day while drawing with the kids at the school where I work. I was kind of trying a new style of tree than I normally draw, and working a little bit more on getting some details just using shading and such with the pencil. I like the way it turned…
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Chasing Fireflies
Did this for Illustration Friday. I don’t totally like the way the silhouette of the girl (who happens to my oldest daughter, Cambria) turned out, but I suppose it’ll do. I did this mostly using Inkscape, but the silhouette of Cambria was done with paper, pen & pencil – then scanned and brought over into…
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Flying Bunk Bed
Did this for Illustration Friday – this week’s theme is “launch.” Inspired by my two little girls and Little Nemo (of no relation to Finding Nemo – and in my opinion, a better movie). I really hate the way the coloring worked out but (a) I “scanned” the drawing using my Nikon DSLR and (b)…
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House Cutaway
I drew and colored this during the last week for this coming month’s theme at the Hoikuen where I teach English. The theme for the month is “at home”, so I thought it would be nice to teach them about the rooms of a house. I’m not as happy with this as I could be,…
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Girl in Overall Dress Sketch
Sketch I did this afternoon – I love having days off! For a while now (much longer than it should be) I have been working on a children’s book. I have redrawn some of the characters a number of different times, and this is an effort I undertook today to see if I could do…