I haven’t posted in an age, because I’ve been busybusybusy working - unfortunately nothing I can show on here. In the meantime, go take a look at the lovely illustration work of Sarah McIntyre at Jabberworks. Her very prolific blog puts me to shame.
As a paltry offering, I drew these in honour of Easter today:
…which reminds me: I’d better start sorting out my seeds for planting.
Happy Halloween!
I’ve been busy, busy, busy for the past couple of months and so have barely had time to breathe, let alone post anything! That said, I can finally mention the Xanga Minis project, as it was officially launched yesterday: Xanga Minis are here!
These are little animated gift icons that Xanga users can buy with their ‘eProp’ currency. I was commissioned to illustrate and animate the five below; these were drawn directly into Flash, because I knew they’d need to be animated, although I did sketch a couple on paper first. In fact, you can see some rough versions of the soup (chicken noodle!) and heart in a previous sketch post here. I was contemplating posting the Flash animations, but I think I’ll leave those for Xanga users to discover. The style brief was quite open, so these were huge fun to create! Go, go, go create Xanga blogs!
Okay, I’m off to do work on another drypoint plate for printing tomorrow. I discovered the wonderful joys of offsetting prints onto plates last time, so this will be my first two-colour/multi-plate intaglio print.
(I just realised that I started this blog almost exactly a year ago: happy birthday piemash blog!)
I’ve been horribly busy with design work this week, so the only thing I’ve had time to do is a Valentine modification of my box tree illustration.
I hope to get some more actual drawing done this weekend and next week - like, y’know, on paper. I’ve never been too fabulous at human characters, so I’d like to try to develop my own character style - a quick illustrative shorthand that will enable me to draw people in any pose. That’s my project for the weekend, anyway - barring any unforeseen client work landing in the in-box. We shall see if I come up with anything worth posting! The Illustration Friday topic this week is ‘Discovery’ which also brings to mind some nice little ideas…
Random, I know.
I’ve been doing some client work in Flash this week, and it just feels so bizarre to be working in it. I keep trying to use Illustrator short-cuts. How quickly we forget, huh?
