Went for the operating theatre for this theme giving it a touch of drama in the process.

Submission for this week Illustration Friday theme Legendary.

Its a Barney mashup with Barney “Legendary” Stinson and Barney the dinosaur.  What could be better?

This week’s submission for Illustration friday theme breezy.  Inspiration came from one of the photos i took of my wifey on our wedding night.

Illustrated in Corel Painter and edited in photoshop.

http://tinyartdirector.blogspot.com/ – just discovered this little gem of a site.  The site revolves around Bill Zeman Illustration’s art directed by his four year old daughter. As you can imagine working with a four year, there’s bound to be lots of memorable moments.

Here’s an excerpt from the site about the illustration above:

The Brief: A dinosaur eating a R and an O and an S and a I and a E
The Critique: That’s not what I want. That’s a Brachiosaurus. I want a T Rex. He’s supposed to have the other letters in his mouth too. See look! He’s only eating that one. What letter is that?
Job Status: Rejected

This is a portrait of my papou (grandfather in Greek) for this weeks Illustration friday created in photoshop with the help of my trusty wacom.

His old, obviously.  I don’t know how old he is exactly (I’m a nice grandson aren’t i?), but he has always seemed old to me. The thing is that his appearance has hardly changed over the years since I can remember, with the short curly grey hair and the aged wise look.

For me this illustration represents a stasis of time, with everyone else in the family growing older except for my grandfather.

This week’s submission for Illustration Friday theme: Flawed.

I  incorporated the concept of the flawed body image into the work by appropriating Velazquez’s painting “Venus at her Mirror” with the modern day context of cosmetic surgery. Not sure if it works or not, but I’m kind of happy with it.

I switched between photoshop and painter for this, using the pastel and blender tools in painter with the brush tools in photoshop for the sketching.

This weeks late submission for Illustration Friday theme Pale. Such a simple concept but I found it hard to make a decision as to what do with this theme.

Only played in photoshop for this one, not having time to experiment with painter, but I’m starting to prefer photoshop anyway for illustrations. Painter just seems clunky for me, not to mention buggy. I had it crash last week when i was finished up the previous week’s theme. I guess i should have saved more as I went along.

Anyway hope you enjoy…

This weeks submission for Illustration Friday: Contained.

I wanted to explore this weeks theme by trying to capture an asylum seekers point of view within a detention centre and how the Australian government (or any government for that matter) feels they have solved their problems by cramming people looking for a new home behind fences and cage.

I really don’t see how this is an ideal solution for anyone, especially not for the people incarcerated in these centre’s nor the government spending the tax payer money running these shit holes.

There must be a better answer to this.