I drew an archaeopteryx today.
What a pretty birdie! 😉
Tag: vector art
Katie’s Monkey
Here’s a work in progress for a personal project I’m working on. My daughter wanted a poster of a monkey swinging by its tail from a tree with a banana. I’ve just about got the monkey done, next to tackle the scenery. I’m working in Illustrator because I’m not sure how big she’s going to want me to print it. Vector graphics are infinitely scaleable, unlike raster art. 
Wordless Comic Strip
I can’t remember if I posted this yet. Another Hart McLeod one for a third grade textbook. This one was supposed to be an intentionally vague, wordless comic strip. The student is supposed to write a story explaining what frightened the stick-man.
So, what do YOU think happened in this strip?
Vacuum Ate Cat
Here’s an illustration for Hart McLeod for a third grade textbook. It goes along with a poem where the vacuum ate the cat.
Instructions for Making a Pop-Up Card
Here’s an image illustrating some instructions on how to make a pop-up greeting card. Created for Hart McLeod for a third grade textbook.
Hidden Picture Image
Here’s a commission I just sent in to Hart McLeod.
Hidden in the image are 12 pictures. They weren’t supposed to be TOO hard to find, so you should be able to spot them. A woman, a man, two girls, one boy, one owl, two rabbits, three turtles, and a frog.
Interesting thing about this project. They told me which hidden elements they wanted to see, but said that the scene was the artist’s choice. I hate that. That means I had to figure out an interesting scene and compose it with no guidance or limits. I love limits. Contrary to what you’d think, I can be so much more creative if I have defined framework to work in. Oh well.
Luckily, I pulled out this reference photo from my photo collection and used it as my framework. I took this at the Overland Park Arboretum this fall. There actually is a pond off the frame to the left, but it isn’t to the horizon like in the drawing.
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.
Fruit
Here’s some vector fruit I just created in Adobe Illustrator for Hart McLeod. They’re for a textbook.
The Scorpion and The Frog – Final
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.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 