This was an exercise to practice drawing different expressions on the same character using Adobe Illustrator. I didn’t bother with shading it, since it was just practice.
I initially drew these in a completely different order, but arranging them this way seemed to fit them into a narrative. The second from the last was originally supposed to be a yawn. I’m not really sure why I turned him into a zombie. It just sort of happened.
A couple of revised illustrations.
I did a little photo shoot the other day using valentine’s day candies and my new DSLR camera.
Yeah, I know. It’s not even Thanksgiving yet. But if I’m going to get my Christmas cards printed in time, I have to design them about now. So, here’s my Christmas card design for the year.
Buy it here.
My version of the Slender Man.
Happy Halloween!
This is my submission for Illustration Friday’s prompt of creature.
I drew this as a sample for my art rep. It’s supposed to be a class, led by a male teacher, performing the traditional Chinese dragon dance at a community Chinese New Year celebration. The teacher is on drums, Steven (the narrator) is on cymbals, a girl holds the dragon’s head, and four other students hold the body of the dragon. Genders should be balanced. The class should be mostly Asian, but with two non-Asian characters. The students live in a non-Asian country. It’s for an international market, so the usual restrictions as to gestures and girl’s dress apply. Showing children with glasses or disabilities is encouraged.
Chinese New Year is in February, so I figured it was a chilly day. The sort of weather where some people wear their heavy coats and others stick it out with a jacket or heavy sweatshirt.
There were no specifics on Kevin. So, I made him sit in a wheelchair. It gave him a reason to be out in front and the seated position worked better for placing everything, I thought.
I know next to nothing about Chinese New Year traditions. Or the dragon dance. Everything here used references from a Google image search. Does anyone reading this know anything about this subject? Have I drawn anything that stands out as obviously wrong?
How do the colors look? Anything too bright? Does the background overwhelm the foreground?
I think this will be next year’s Christmas card. I was playing with HDR again. Real HDR, not HDR-style. The image didn’t really need HDR, but… eh. I like how it turned out, though I haven’t printed it, so it may need some adjustments still.
I love the spot healing brush tool in Photoshop, because after several days, the snow I used wasn’t perfectly clean. Also, when you set a candy cane in the snow, it starts bleeding red into the snow. So, I had to correct that as well.
And here’s another one.
And I made a clover too.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 