Here’s some images I just finished for Hart McLeod.
Annoyed Grown-Ups and Guilty Kids
Here’s some images I just finished for Hart McLeod.
Tag: illustration
521 Promo Pet Cartoons
I created the following cartoons for Kellene Addison with 521 Promo. I understand they’re intended to be printed on T-shirts. They were created in Adobe Photoshop. I’m posting them as art samples only and all copyrights are owned by Kellene Addison.
While developing the dog character in the second cartoon, I drew out this guy as well. He ultimately wasn’t used. So, he’s still mine. He’s a little unfinished, but I like him.
Chicken or Egg
Which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Please note that this is a bit simplified, since it’s doubtful that the distinction between a red jungle fowl and a chicken came about in just one generation. More likely, there were quite a few generations of a long grey area between sorta-a-red-jungle-fowl-sorta-a-chicken before it became obviously the distinct species we now call a chicken. Plus, they think they might have bred them with the grey jungle fowl as well.
Dammit, Jim, I’m an illustrator, not a biologist.
Either way, the egg still came first.
iStock
I decided to take some of my images just sitting around in my portfolio and put them to work. To that end I created an iStock account to sell some of them for stock.
I’m pleasantly surprised that, so far, they’ve only rejected one image, and that one because it was a photograph where a brand name was visible (I should have know better). I was surprised that they didn’t reject more of the photos because they were all taken with a point-and-shoot camera and had compression errors at full size. I reduced them to fix that, but I still wasn’t 100% sure they were sharp enough. I uploaded just a few of them mostly to get an idea of if that quality of image was good enough. I guess they are.
I’ve got quite a few in-queue still and some of the accepted ones aren’t up yet, but if you’d like to see what’s up so far, here’s the link to my iStock portfolio: http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/11221904#1232097
Also, I’m curious if any of you have tried iStock as contributors and what your thoughts are on the experience.
The Scorpion and The Frog – Final
This image is available at shutterstock here.
Comic Book Self-Portrait
This is what I really look like–in a western comic book style. Well, my hair isn’t quite that curly. But the face is right. Drawn in Adobe Illustrator.
Happy Holidays
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.
Karate Contractions
I was supposed to make the apostrophe into a character and have him knocking out the letters to form these three contractions. I decided to make it a karate character so he could use karate moves. Kids like karate. The only thing I’m a little iffy on is making the character white. I made him fully white because a karate gee is all white. I actually tried drawing it in a bit more detail so that the shirt was fully defined, but that just didn’t look right. When I colored the “skin” of the apostrophe, it looked even worse. So, I decided all-white without much detail looked best. The black belt is the important bit, I think.
These are for a textbook project for Hart Mcleod.
Combining Words
Here are a couple cartoons about combining words in silly ways. I was given very specific instructions on these, including what words to use and what is happening.
These images were commissioned Hart McLeod.
Poets
Here’s the finished version of an illustration for Hart Mcleod.
The original discription wanted a poet breaking up and reattaching words to make new words. Specifically January + August = Januaugust and October + September = Octember. Several suggestions on how to do this were given, including making the words into logs that are being cut apart with a saw and nailed together with a hammer.
I chose this interpretation because two poets allowed me to show both the sawing and nailing in one image instead of two panels. It showed that both boys and girls can be poets. It showed a girl using a hand tool, which is always a good thing in my view. They’re beatniks because it’s about the closest thing to a poet’s uniform I could think of. If they’d been older, I would have given the boy the stereotypical beatnik goatee, but I wanted them to be kids, so I couldn’t.
The colors came from the sample layout that went along with the assignment. Not exactly the colors I’d have chosen, but they should go well with the final pages. I haven’t run a test print yet, so the colors may be off a bit.
I think it turned out pretty well. This is the most complex of the images in this project.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 