Usually I think of an idea by Tuesday and just can't get it done in time for Thursday night. Maybe I would do better if it was Illustration Fortnight!

For last week's theme was "beginner" and the idea came very naturally - a young bird learning to fly. I didn't have a particular bird in mind when I sketched him, but he came out a sparrow!


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Every now and then a topic on Illustration Friday is enough to get me moving as fast as possible, but the past week was ridiculously busy and a week just wasn't enough time. I doodled the idea at work on Friday but didn't get around to actually drawing it until Sunday, and then with two out of four evenings occupied, there wouldn't be enough time ( Read more... )

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It's been ages since I did an entry. When I think "breezy", I think of horses and blue! It's also another chance for me to do some papercutting. I want to do this horse in other colours, especially since I have some new X-acto blades. Nothing is worse than cutting with dull blades!


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Just wanted to say I made a full size painting from a little sketch from an IF back in...2007? Yikes! How time does fly.

This is probably the most involved painting I have undertaken. Click the painting to see a larger image and more detailed explanatoin. I was quite pleased to finish it today. Here's the in-progress pictures with the original IF ( Read more... )

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What happened to this community? :/ Illustration Friday's still going on, so can we post our illustrations here every Friday? Should someone put up a topic post and let everyone respond with their sketches or whathaveyou? :D

I'd love to see this group get active again ^^

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