Another pencil in sketchbook piece.
Not sure what the thing is on his head is – possibly a leech, or a hat with teeth.
Terrible scan though. Will have to try it again…
Submitted for Illustration Friday topic: Perennial.
Submitted for Illustration Friday topic “Beneath”.
I had worked through a few idea for this one, intending to go with the main gist that something would be partly submerged, one thing on the top, and beneath it turns out to be something else, eg, an island that is actually the shell of a turtle, sort of thing….
I had a sketch of an ‘island’ and the water line, then moved down and it ended up looking a bit like a body floating backside up. Then it got tied up in ropes. The i added a weight to it. Then going back to the ‘island’, i drew a palm tree, coconuts and a monkey…. it all got a bit stupid - looked like the tree was sticking outta the date – so i pulled back to just the body completely submerged.
Decided to try a new ‘medium’ of Painter 11 that i haven’t used, the Airbrush. I quite like it , but it’ll take some getting used to! Might need to look at getting one of these if i want to keep using it….
Submission for this weeks Illustration Friday topic “Acrobat”.
I’ve been playing with image ideas to go with the name of this blog. The name Blacker Pastures came from the idea that where greener pastures might be better than where you are, blacker pastures might be worse some how.
I once hear a man lovingly refer to his annoying wife as pear shaped woman. It was at my wedding i think, and no, it wasn’t me….
Used in local rag’s New Year’s Resolution article.
For Illustration Friday topic ‘Breakfast’.
This is another Illustration Friday piece – a quick Oil Pastel sketch of what i initially thought doing of after hearing the topic – “Ripple”, but before i read about the oil spill fund raiser thing….
New one for Illustration Friday topic: Ripple.
The word was chosen to coincide with a fund raiser to help with the Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe (Oil Spill), other entries can be found here.
My first response to the word Ripple was, as usual, puerile and mildly perverse, but then I figured it could give me a chance to do something that I hadn’t done before, which was using the Water Colour brushes.
It was also nice, as they requested a particular size, which gave an added limitation to the piece.
What began as doodling away with the pencils, ended with some subtle colour washes and fiddling around, and I’m kinda happy with the way it turned out. Makes me feel all arty….