Friday, April 04, 2008

IF Save

Here we go for this week's Illustration Friday. I translate "Sauve qui peut" as "Run for your life", but a literal translation could be "Save yourself if you can" ... Oh and I tried to give it a little bit of a sepia tone to honour A Sepia Colored Photo, the illustrator who suggested the theme!



and here is the sketch where it all started ...

20 comments:

Aspa said...

What a great concept, very nicely executed too!

Anonymous said...

yes, interesting concept, poor little piggie banks, nasty evil hammer-person, it's great stuff!

mk said...

Awesome! Wonderful idea!!

Lisa Rivas said...

Excellent! Also the acknowledgment to "A Sepia Colored Photo" in your tones. Got to save for a rainy day...

Dot said...

i love the concept! Really funny :)

Majane said...

very nice work !

Anonymous said...

Excellent. I love your treatment of the subject.

ElizT said...

Nice; worthy of a Hammer Horror film.

Paola De Gaudio said...

hehe! great idea for this week topic! Luckly you SAVED the sketch, it's also so nice :)

Anonymous said...

I like this quite a bit. The hammer is particularly nice. I actually prefer the more rough-hewn hammer in the initial sketch. Both are good, but the face on the sketched one just looks a little more menacing in a shark-type way to me. Also, the looseness of the sketch seems to add to the feeling of present danger. Either way, I like it!

Anonymous said...

Very funny!

Teresa said...

Thanks for all the comments! I've been thinking that maybe I should have labeled the hammer (materialism or consumerism, or maybe even greed), but I guess it works without it being labeled.

Digital Scott's Illustrationblog said...

What a great idea!!! Funny and well done.

Ellen said...

Absolutely faboo!

Cara Carmina said...

hello! I came to thank your nice comment on my IF blog.

Love this idea! I liked it and made me laugh!

come visit my other blog, is about children illustration, you migh like it, is in spanish and english...

good luck!

www.caracarmina.blogspot.com

Alicia Souza said...

haha thats so original...
cutee

shaky mouse said...

funny and a bit dark..

isay said...

here i am sitting at home sick and feeling low and you made me smile! thanks.

so cool illustration!

Juan said...

Very funny and witty. I love pork in the center that looks the hammer resigned.
Sorry for the brutal English :)

Anonymous said...

Those poor little piggies, nobody loves them! Ah, but it's not so easy to save! Great illo! I like the use of the hammer, that gives the illustration a whole other depth.