Illustration friday - glamour

this was a painting i did two years ago.
some nice girl bought it and they're both in chicago now i think...

the cat

here's a rough sketch of the cat i'm thinking of using.
although he's kinda mean looking, so i don't know where this will go.

illustration friday- cats

this is a pen and ink sketch for a kids book i'm trying to write about a cat....who is missing from this pic, so the cat's still to come...

illustration friday part 2

I have a blue toy elephant sitting on my desk. A remnant from the fisher price circus set when i was little.
so i drew a closeup of his head and scanned it in and colored it in with photoshop.
the stripes on the side are the pages of the sketch book from which it was scanned

illustration friday: e is for...

e is for ennui.
dip pen and ink on grey conte paper. light brown wash.
dreary dreary dreary.
exactly how i feel.

illustration friday: Sea

I don't like this mermaid. I wanted to do a cute little seonna hong-type of illustration, but she's amazing and i am...well....what's less than not?
so against my better judgement, i'm posting it here anyway. tomorrow is friday anyway and with it is a new idea.
the original was done with water color crayons on just sketchbook paper so it's kinda warbely....i need to get watercolor paper i think...
my boss is also out this afternoon, so i'm using the time to see what "filters" do in photoshop.
i actually like those better so i'll include them too....
(half tone)
(reticulation)
(cross hatch)