Illustration Friday - Swarm

It's been a while since I've felt inspired by Illustration Friday. The word this week reminded me of a series of drawings I always wanted to do but never did, so I finally let one of these strange visions out. Lord only knows where or when I first started having this idea of butterflies as things of menace as well as beauty, but it's certainly been with me for at least the past few years. Someday I'll have to scan some of my etchings from my last year in art school. I started writing this whole visual fairytale about an androgynous girl being attacked by a faceless, tuxedoed magician figure and his butterflies...

They really do swarm, though. Seriously, type monarch butterfly swarm into google image search. Then tell me you wouldn't be terrified if you saw that gorgeous insect army descending.

Illustration Friday - Slither

Something a little different this week.

Illustration Friday - Early

Appropriately enough, I'm getting this one in early. Well, early for me. Frankly, posting one of these any sooner than Thursday around 11pm is early for me. Unfortunately, I don't seem to have any black ink on hand, so rather than risking butchering the drawing with a mixed black or with pen, I've temporarily added the blacks using Photoshop. I'll do it properly when I buy some black.

I'm still kicking myself for last week's adventure. I poured everything I could into Fearless, pushed dinner back to 11, was just about to post it to Illustration Friday... and then realized that somehow I had gotten the weeks mixed up, missed the deadline for Fearless, and finished Fearless just in time to meet the deadline for Equipment. Sadly, there was no equipment in my fearless drawing, so I just posted it to my blog and sat on my hands... I'm still glad I made it, though, because it's a million times better than any equipment drawing I could have done. And I did it in tribute to my little lion, and you know everything I do for him is a labor of love. Even when it involves getting up at four in the morning because he's decided he needs wet food immediately.

Illustration Friday - Fearless

In honor of my own little lion. He is, incidentally, still with us and is responding well to his new meds. And he still has the most kissable nose in the world.

subterranean - Illustration Friday

They used a word I submitted this week, so I kind of felt obliged to submit a drawing to go with it. Not my best effort, but more than I've been doing lately.

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Illustration Friday - Undone

This week's Illustration Friday word is "undone." My response is inspired by the jackassery of my neighbor, who has recently decided to raze dozens of beautiful trees along the property line to build himself a driveway to the creepy little barn he lives in (in the middle of a vast, empty field which he can easily drive over and in which he has never grown anything). (see my previous post below for further ranting) The whole thing is senseless and repulsive, and the damage sadly cannot be undone. Hence my sketch.

I feel like I'm going to be drawing a lot of trees for a while...

Illustration Friday - Entangled

Been a while since I've had time to draw anything. It shows, unfortunately. Work is eating my life. I think that shows, too.

Illustration Friday - Pattern

I haven't really felt much up to doing the art thing lately, between the car accident and the new job that gives me such little time and has me clicking a mouse seven hours a day... My hands have been hurting and I've just been too tired and dissatisfied with my ideas. But I did happen to check out illustration friday (illustrationfriday.com) this week, and the word of the week was "pattern," which instantly made me think of this drawing I made a ways back. Although I guess most of my drawings I've done for Illustration Friday involve patterns, this drawing is specifically *about* patterns. It's based off a picture I took of one of my old roommates with a classmate's painting.

At any rate... it's a way to feel productive without having to actually draw anything new.

"Shaky" - Illustration Friday

The word this week for Illustration Friday (http://illustrationfriday.com/) is "shaky". I've been experimenting with scratchboard lately for a comic I want to make, so that's what I used to make this shaky little guy. Poor lil' feller.