IF - Beginning

It's been such a long time since I've done anything for Illustration Friday, and this is kind of a happy fluke - these were originally grey faces, but the paint took another direction and .. well .. I'm happy with them and even happier when I realized they seem to represent "beginning".

In my series of Grey is Good acrylic paintings, here are 5 Blue Beginning paintings:

Only took me to Sunday to get them done !

Hope to be back with more IF images soon.

Teresa

IF - Wrinkles

IF Primitive

ahhh primitives. I love primitives ... Here is a new abstract one for Illustration Friday. Another case of not ending up where I thought it was going, but I like it, so there you go!



Now for the "old" primitives. Here are 3 "old" comics I created on the subject of primitives (some inside knowledge of 2D or 3D computer animation may be required for the motion capture and self-portrait ones):







And why not post one mutapic generated primitive image:

Mutapic - variations on theme of Fail

Last week's IF theme was Fail and as I mentioned in my posting for it I tried using my friend Sylvain's new online tool Mutapic for it -- I thought I would post some of the preliminary results here.

The first idea that came out was "Fail to Quit Smoking", which now that I'm looking at the images I think worked really well -- at the time I thought the images were too "positive" towards smoking, but now that I think about it -- that would be "Fail to Quit"! Here are the smoking mutapic images:







Next is an x and o's game with no winner ...









Thanks again to Sylvain for this amazing idea generator!

IF Fail

Somehow I think this could have been more "creative" but here it is, my contribution to this week's Illustration Friday theme of Fail. Ack, I guess that means I think I failed! ;o)



Also, I'd like to give a shout-out to an "idea-generating" tool that a friend of mine has just released -- it's called "Mutapic" and it takes shapes, icons, imported art and mixes and blends and mutates them into multiple variations ... I'm hoping that it will improve my backgrounds and layout/compositions. I used it today, not for the final artwork, but to kick start my ideas ... I don't know how much of an influence it had on this piece, but I think it is a great tool. Try it and see what you think.

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 ...

IF Homage

This is a comic I've wanted to draw for a while, so I was quite happy to see Illustration Friday's theme this week .... a gravestone is an homage!



Edit: After reading the comments, I thought I would post the first draft of this comic. I was attempting a "New Yorker" style cartoon, which I think is more obvious in the draft -- whereas the comments are correct, my "Final" comic above is much more "Far Side-ish" -- both comparisons are fine by me!

IF Multiple

I was cleaning my system last week and found this unfinished piece for Illustration Friday's Multiple theme from a number of weeks ago. So I finished it last night and thought I would post it even if the IF Multiple week has long passed. This version is a digital painting created in Painter, however I have a number of these circle drawings on paper. I suppose they could be considered a kind of automatism art. Usually when I'm doodling I end up with lots of circles on the page.

IF Pet Peeves

These IF images rarely turn out the way I think they will, but I guess that's ok. One of my pet peeves is when dogs run up and jump on me in the park... it makes me particularly crazy on muddy days.. anyway somehow that idea morphed into another pet peeve of mine, poodles wearing rabbit ears and carrying Easter baskets full of eggs. That said, if a dog wearing rabbit ears turns up at my place on Sunday morning with chocolate eggs, I probably won't be too upset (especially if they're dark chocolate eggs). Happy chocolate day.

IF Heavy

Ironically this could have worked for last week's theme of garden, but here it is for heavy ...

IF Garden

This was not the direction I expected this to take, but I am quite happy with the result. It's still snowing here and this is what a Spring garden will like in a couple of months.

IF Leap

IF Soar

Here is my entry to this week's Illustration Friday "Soar" challenge. It is loosely based on the Quebec Folk legend La Chasse-Galerie, that according to some takes place on New Year's Eve -- so with that Happy New Year (but don't go making any deals with the Devil or go flying off in a Bewitched Canoe)!

IF Horizon

Horizon submission for Illustration Friday -- this is an edited version of the horizon I painted for this year's annual greeting card: