Hockey Stop

January 15, 2025January 21, 20252 Comments

For personal reasons, I needed an image of a hockey stop and I wasn’t happy with the clip art options I was finding in the usual places one finds clipart. So, I made my own in Adobe Illustrator. It’s a little quick and dirty. You might notice that the two skates are just copies of each other, for example. (I really should have drawn a unique second skate at a slightly different angle. And maybe added a shadow.) But it still gets the point across better than the clipart I was finding.

An illustration of the skates of a hockey player performing a hockey stop, with ice spraying.

This image is available on Shutterstock here: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/skaters-hockey-skates-while-they-perform-2571104179

Number 99 of 150

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Another character with brightly colored hair. Tie-dye patterns are fun to draw.

An East Asian girl, aged 10-12, smiles into the wind as she rides her kick scooter. Her long black hair is worn loose flying behind her, and she has the ends ombre dyed pink. She is wearing a white-striped black helmet, purple and pink tie-dyed tank top, black biker shorts, and purple sneakers.

The image includes a watermark for the illustrator and text noting that the image is copyright © 2022 Learning A-Z.

Squirrel Book 4 of 10

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On to Chapter 3. The squirrel, Rocky, has been released and is showing off his moves for a girl squirrel. Only, he doesn’t quite stick the landing.

A cartoon illustration depicting one squirrel showing off for another squirrel up among the tree branches. The showoff runs down the trunk, backflips to a branch, summersaults along it, misses the landing, and falls off the branch. Movement is shown by a series of drawings of the same squirrel within one scene to show key positions in the string of his movement. Motion lines help define the path of movement. The second squirrel is watching from a distant branch with both concern and amusement.

Running Hug Sketches

December 28, 2014December 28, 2014Leave a comment

Some quick motion sketches. Running Hug