Saturday, December 26, 2009

Horse


A white arabian horse I drew a while back.

ചിരിസ്റ്മസ്അപ്ഡേറ്റ്


Christmas has been good to me this year. I have been given the amazing ‘The Batman vault’ (Running press ISBN 978-0-7624-3663-7) and the very impressive ‘The art of Osamu Tezuka’ (ILEX ISBN 978-1-905814-66-4).
I am also reading ‘Buddha: vol 5 and 6’ (by Osamu Tezuka published by Harper Collins). I love this series.
On the drawing front I plan to post some more Jo Blight images soon. I have to also start work on my entry to the world handmade picture book contest in Japan. This is held by the Oshima Museum of Picture books in Toyama. I have been very lucky to have visited the museum 3 times so far, the last time was in July this year with my family. I intend to post some images from this project on the Blogg as I go. So keep looking for up dates.

Horse



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Friday, December 25, 2009

horse


According to legend, Catherine the Great of Russia really loved horses.

Family


This is a pencil-drawing I made for my friend Florian representing his wife Elena and their little daughter Alexandra Aurelia. Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Family

The true meaning of Christmas:
Jesus ~ Love ~ Family ~ Union ~ Peace
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you friends!
(Sketch on watercolor background)
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Hoarse Horse


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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Henry The Horse



-Megan

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

咖啡豆之家 House of Coffeebean: IF: Undone is Like A Broken Wing

poor little angel, this is very nice

咖啡豆之家 House of Coffeebean: IF: Undone is Like A Broken Wing

Monday, December 21, 2009

Tim, The Horse and The Princess.



"The first time the Horse and The Princess came to visit, Tim felt he was dreaming; that was until the next day, when his father found the 'sword' holes in his best leather jacket....": Illustrator" Andrew Finnie. For further work catch me at home. And, as always click for big and thankyou for taking the time to look. Apologies to Mike, I thought the topic was "The Horse and The Princess!" Oh, I am such a thickhead! Ho. Merry Christmas everyone, see you soon!

Family


Ah, the Holidays. A time for friends and family. Lots of good junk food to get fat on and vacation time. I almost always choose to stay in New York for Christmas and this year is no exception. I pick up as many shifts at work as I could so that all my co-workers could take time off. Then I'll take two weeks in January to go see the family and just have a break from waiting on ungrateful human beings.

However, this year I've been kinda bummed out cause I'm not going to get to go back to Maine to see my family. Its been a strange year with the death of a family member, his evil wife taking advantage of my grandmother, my sister selling her house... and blah blah blah.

Yesterday, New York go dumped on by almost a foot of snow and I was excited cause I had that moment where it felt like Christmas long ago. People were outside throwing snowballs, digging out parked cars, making snow angels and of course, making snowmen. Which is where the inspiration for this illustration comes from.

The people in the image from left to right are Snowman Christopher (my nephew,) Snowwoman Nana J, Snowwoman Dawn (my sister,) live John (Me,) Snowwoman Lynn (my mom,) and Snowdog Cee Cee.

This is for everyone who is away from their family this holiday! I hope that you find some way to make it bright! I'll be doing it with my "New York Family" Katz Deli style and then ice skating in Prospect Park.

Happy Holidays!

John Jennison
www.dogoodercomics.com

secrets


Miss Dik-dik and Sir Thylacine have many secrets..... sshhhh...

A new illustration! Hurray!  I haven't posted in a super long time, so here you go!  I don't know how I completed the frame without exploding - I'm not very patient, so I just did one side then mirrored it... But just doing the one side was painful enough :)

Horse and Princess

gouache painting on bristol paper

Family - The Gruesomes

The Adams Family/Munsters-like family that lived next door to the Flintstones. The Gruesomes! Weirdly, Creepella, and Gobby Gruesome.

New Challenge - Horse

The new challenge is:

Horse!

Illustrate a horse or two or a pony. Horses are famous throughout legend, myth, and tales, from frightening to cute. Saddle up, artists!

The "Frog" challenge is over. The new challenge is "Horse" and ends on January 4, 2010. The "Family" challenge continues for another week and ends on December 28, 2009.

And The Winner Is... Claudio Rodriguez Valdes!

The winner for the "Frog" challenge is:

Claudio Rodriguez Valdes!

Congratulations to Claudio Rodriguez Valdes. I chose Claudio's "Look What I Found!" as the winner for the Frog challenge. Charming and fantastic, like a giant Miyazaki character, Claudio's imaginative painting is funny and joyful.

If there's ever anything that makes me want to run from this blog screaming, it's the arduous task of choosing a winner. The artwork here is always amazing and wonderful. The frog challenge was a knock out! I actually got the opinions of about 100 8th graders for the selection of this winner. They had a hard time too but most of them responded with the greatest delight to Claudio's frog. Biggest standouts for me were Katalin's wonderful frog prince, Andrew's Tim and the Frog, Evie's beautiful watercolor, Josh Billing's Froggy Christmas, Roberta's frog scientist, and the gorgeous design work and colors of Sandra Vargas' Frog! But even those are a tough choice over the rest of the incredible frogs all of the other artists submitted here. Thank you for such amazing work, everyone!

Monday Artday: Frog


"At bath times, Byron lurked just outside the bathroom, croaking until poor Tim, driven half crazy with the frog's plaintive pleas, would appear dripping at the door...."  Illustrator Andrew Finnie: Please click for big.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

undone

It's too late/She's gone too far/She's lost the sun
Lancelot's evening plans were interrupted when he was faced with the challenge of getting Guinevere's chastity belt undone.

more drawings and stories at the josh pincus is crying blog

michael johnson

thought you didn't see me, now, did ya?
On September 10, 1995, two men robbed a convenience store in Lorena, Texas. 27 year-old Jeff Wetterman was shot and killed during the robbery. The two men, David Vest and Michael Johnson, each named the other as the gunman. Vest pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and, in exchange for an eight-year sentence, testified against Johnson. Despite his unrelenting denials, Johnson was found guilty and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

As per prison policy, guards check every fifteen minutes on inmates facing imminent execution. On October 19, 2006, Johnson spoke briefly with guards at 2:30 AM. When the guards returned for their 2:45 AM check, they discovered Johnson unresponsive and lying in a pool of blood. He had fashioned a metal blade attached to a stick and slit his jugular vein. He had enough time, before he died, to write "I didn't do it" on his cell wall in his own blood.

Family

A homage to my favorite family growing up. My version of The Adams Family. I chose to leave in Black and White. annpilicerillustration.blogspot.com