Category Archives: Illustration Friday

Illustration Friday: Citrus (leathery old lemon)

Posted on May 11, 2007 by

Watercolor on Arches paper, 10×8″. To enlarge, click image, select All Sizes I hadn’t planned on doing Illustration Friday today but when I saw that the topic was Citrus I remembered the giant old lemon from a co-worker’s tree that’s … Continue reading →

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Illustration Friday: Polar (Bipolar)

Posted on April 21, 2007 by

Digital illustration in Corel Painter started from scanned sketchy ideas drawn on the back of a receipt sitting on the kitchen table. This week’s Illustration Friday challenge is “Polar.” I first thought of polar bears of course, but I did … Continue reading →

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Busby “Buzz” Berkeley – Illustration Friday

Posted on January 5, 2007 by

Pencil sketch/study for monotype. Aquabee 6×9 sketchbook. (To enlarge, click image, select All Sizes) I’d been planning to work on sketching my cat Busby, also known as Buzz, to prepare for doing a monoprint of him today so it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cats, Drawing, Illustration Friday, Pencil drawing, Sketchbook Pages | 11 Comments

Illustration Friday: Invention

Posted on November 25, 2006 by

Drawn and painted using Painter digital tools. To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes” This week’s Illustration Friday cue is “Invention.” I visited the nearby Point Isabelle dog park to sketch today and noticed that everybody had these ball-flinging and … Continue reading →

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Illustration Friday: Clear

Posted on November 10, 2006 by

Drawn in pencil, scanned, inked & colored in Painter digitally (To enlarge, click image, select “All Sizes”) After a few weeks of being too busy to participate in Illustration Friday, I’m excited that I was able to play again. The … Continue reading →

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Illustration Friday: GHOST (True story)

Posted on October 21, 2006 by

Drawn and painted digitally in Painter. To enlarge, click on image and open “Ghost (Large version)” on Flickr. When I was a kid my mom made a ghost costume for me out of an old sheet, cutting holes for eyes … Continue reading →

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Illustration Friday: Smitten

Posted on October 13, 2006 by

Ink and watercolor in Raffine sketchbook (Click image, select “All Sizes” to enlarge) This week’s Illustration Friday word is “Smitten.” My original idea was to draw my Los Angeles sister’s rescued dove and parakeet that have formed a loving pair … Continue reading →

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Illustration Friday: Trouble

Posted on October 7, 2006 by

Digital art done in Painter Click image to enlarge and select “All Sizes” I immediately thought of my cat Fiona when I saw this week’s Illustration Friday cue: “Trouble.” She’s always getting into trouble: chewing on electric cords, wrestling with … Continue reading →

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Illustration Friday: Quiet

Posted on September 30, 2006 by

Drawn and painted using Painter & Wacom tablet (click image and select “all sizes” to enlarge) I had a few ideas for this week’s Illustration Friday challenge and this one seemed the more upbeat–the other two involved coffins and dead … Continue reading →

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Illustration Friday: Phobia (Acrophobia)

Posted on September 22, 2006 by

UPDATE: This illustration was sold to and published in Cedar Wings, the inflight magazine of Middle East Airlines, AirLiban, Issue #99. This week’s prompt for Illustration Friday is the word “Phobia.” I have a pretty bad fear of heights, though … Continue reading →

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Illustration Friday: Change (Diaper)

Posted on September 16, 2006 by

Here’s my second Illustration Friday idea for the topic Change. This was fun to draw in Painter but I used my laptop so I could sit at my drawing table instead of standing at my desktop computer. But the desktop … Continue reading →

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Illustration Friday: Change (Climate)

Posted on September 15, 2006 by

This is the first of a few ideas I want to play with for this week’s Illustration Friday topic: CHANGE. I’m trying to learn how to use Painter IX and each time I do I find another level I know … Continue reading →

Posted in Illustration Friday, Painter Digital Art | 11 Comments