Illustration Friday - YEAR OF THE ROOSTER

You have to click on the image for a larger view... A bit of silliness from me.

Caption reads: "The Colonel didn't stand a chance. The Avenger struck with lightning fury. And so began a dark era for man... a time that will go down in the annals of history as...
THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER!"

Sketch from a B&W photo of Clark Gable.

Click for larger view - I did this one of a young Clark Gable... pre-Gone With the Wind. I suppose I should learn to fill in backgrounds. This was done with a regular HB pencil on a sketch pad. I guess I need to learn more about mediums, paper, which pencils to use, charcoal... Like I said, self-taught artist-in-the-making.

Sketch 2

Please click for larger view. Pencil on paper. I did this one a while back. I think her nose is funny and she has Audrey Hepburn eyebrows. In fact, it started out from a photo I saw of Ms Hepburn - that woman was GORGEOUS.

Sketch 3

Click for larger view. An image I sketched - pencil on paper.

Illustration Friday - Jan 31/05 - I couldn't make up my mind.

The colored pics were drawn with a Papermate ballpoint pen on plain white bond and with whatever crayons and semi-dried up markers I could find in my son's junk box. I haven't bought my Wacom Intuos 3 tablet yet so I don't dare color with Photoshop. I did manage to put in the grey gradient and the solid grey as well as all the text in the photos using an old copy of Paint Shop Pro. My shading needs work.


This one was a quick sketch w/ pen and again the crayons - I was not going to use it because someone else already did a rhino and bird symbiotic thing but then I thought "Oh what the heck..."


Papermate ballpoint on white bond... I also sketched a pencil version of this and I really want to color it so I might post it here later if I like how it turns out... as I said, my shading needs work...


I guess I could use this for Friendship too (overkill!!!) because my mom and I have a friendship. This is a pencil sketch I did of my mother a couple of years ago. I'm still trying to teach myself how to shade and since this one was done, I've discovered what a blending stomp is! I wish I could go back to fix the pic but I gave it to my mother for her birthday. She put it in a very nice frame and it hangs in her bedroom.

Illustration Friday - Gluttony

This is my very very first entry into the Illustration Friday weekly theme. There are some awesome artists on the site and I feel somewhat juvenile and simplistic. However, this is what I am doing it for: to improve myself and to learn from others... By the way, folks: I'm a self-taught artist. I was going to color this with something, but I think I'll just keep it simple for the first few tries.

Medium: pencil... (don't reprimand me - I used an HB pencil out of my kid's pencilbox...)

~Elle~