Pet Peeves. This week’s topic at Illustration Friday.

Stupid cell phone earpiece things. I don’t like them. At all. Or the jerks who talk loudly about nothing in particular in public spaces.

I tried to do something a little different with the coloring, rather than the Photoshop of gradients onto my line art. I used textures from photos. Those are my actual bloodshot eyes on my cartoon eyes. I actually own that shirt. That’s my hair, and so on. It turned out okay. Something I’ll definitely try again in the future.

This is my interpretation of this week’s Illustration Friday topic “Blanket”. I thought about a couple different ways to do it and I settled on my favorite. As a youngster, as I’m sure most kids do, I’d tie my blanket around myself and ran around like Superman. In my socks and underwear. This kid isn’t me. I don’t know who he is. Or why he’s in my house. Weird.

(Pen & Ink, Crayon and Photoshop on paper.) 

The theme for this week’s Illustration Friday is Stitch. Any time I can draw some sort of zombie creature, I’m in. Technically this was two zombie creatures that some mad scientist type guy stitched together. I drew it in two different parts with my trusty Rapidograph pen and splashed some watercolors on them. I went into my girlfriend’s sewing kit and sewed them together, the threadwork is shoddy at best as I haven’t sewn anything since the required Home Ec class in 7th grade. I slapped it on some construction paper and there he is.

It’s been almost a year now since I last did something for Illustration Friday. I don’t really have any kind of reason, but I knew I needed to get back into it. And here it is. Juggle. I’ve been drawing these weird characters lately and decided to start out with some weird guy. What to juggle? I have a collection of children’s science books obtained from thrift store shopping and found some spherical objects to juggle. Believe me, this was the least weird combination I came up with. Even with the head.

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(This May Be Blasphemy)

So the theme for this week’s Illustration Friday challenge is phobia. I thought for a while about the topic. Phobia. Hmm. My girlfriend is super-afraid of wasps. When I was younger, I didn’t like watching America’s Most Wanted because I was afraid I’d see one of the fugitives out and about.

Nah.

I try to be a little absurd in my interpretations of the weekly challenges. Jesus! I’m afraid Jesus is going to come back. Come back and be mad at all the crap people have done in his name. Wait! No! Jesus is gonna come back specifically for me and the picture I drew of him coming back for me! Huh? I don’t know what the heck I’m talking about any more. Here’s my lame picture.

I’m gonna try and get a colored version up later in the week. See some previous Illustration Fridays here.

This week’s Illustration Friday topic is change. It didn’t turn out quite like how I wanted it to, but I got the absurd idea across I think. (Pen and Watercolor)
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This week for Illustration Friday, the theme was Play. I went back to my youth and what I used to play. Nintendo. That was my youth. In front of the TV. Blowing in Nintendo cartridges. Playing until my fingers cramped up. Yeah. Good times.

See a bigger version of this on my Flickr page.

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This week’s topic for Illustration Friday is FAT. I decided to revisit my Maury friend and did an obese child. I could go on a Spurlockian rant about the diets of youngsters and the influence of fast-food advertising and the like, but I will not.

This particular image was done in ink and watercolor. Splashes of chocolate and Cheetos were smeared into her shirt.

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This weeks Illustration Friday is Robot. More like an android this is.It started out kinda like Megaman. It started sucking, so I cyborged him a little bit. (Cyborged?) I’ll probably do another one if I have the time.

See another robot here.

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