More Cephalopods!

This week's challenge inspired me to do an entire cephalopod week on Dabbled :)

So I present to you other ceph's I've drawn this week:

I call this octopus "Edvard - Looking For Love"


And here are some of this week's squids...

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Cephalopods Galore..!

For some reason, this topic just totally inspired me to go all out... so here ya go! Which is your favorite? And hey-- I have a new challenge on Dabbled - the Black Heart Anti-Valentines Day contest... Surely you can come up with a cool Anti-Valentines Day card illo, right?

Love


Peace


Snarky

Speed maybe?

I'm not sure a balloon is fast enough to get Santa to all his destinations. Reindeer might be speedier! Well, I did this for IF: Balloon this week, but I figured I could make it work here too.

And since we've had the Speed challenge for a while on Monday Artday, I figured some of you might want another challenge, so stop by my blog and enter our holiday card challenge...!

Speed maybe?

I'm not sure a balloon is fast enough to get Santa to all his destinations. Reindeer might be speedier! Well, I did this for IF: Balloon this week, but I figured I could make it work here too.

And since we've had the Speed challenge for a while on Monday Artday, I figured some of you might want another challenge, so stop by my blog and enter our holiday card challenge...!

Poppieeees

Loving seeing what everyone's been posting lately -- I've been a slacker.

Oh, and I'm going to be doing a holiday card 'art show' contest on Dabbled this month. Come play!

Here's what I did for IF this week:


Original pencil sketch here

Strings

I'm working on my artday submission right now, but this was my IF for this week. Watercolor pencil, no digital this time. I love the sad feeling she invokes.



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Detach, for Illustration Friday

Thought I'd share the illo I did for IF this week.. I think it needs a good caption.. Any ideas? :)

(doh! It's cutoff... click through to see the whole thing)

Ink drawing, colored in photoshop.

Robot Character study

These are some sketches from a book I'm working on. I love this little guy.



I'd love any feedback on him..
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Hair - or, Which One Should I Wear for my Big Date?

Betty-XF23 has such a dilemma... which do you think RoboMecha-Z will like best?


Another attempt with my new watercolor pencils..

And I invite my monday artday buds to come enter my latest Dabbled contest -- it's fun to have an excuse to create and see what others creat, right!? That's why we're here :)

From IF this week, The Hoarding Robot Toddler

Illustration Friday's topic this week was Hoard. So this is what i did.
I imagine all toddlers go through the hoarding my toys phase, so why not a robot toddler!


Pencil sketch, done in my sketchbook, colored in Photoshop

Previous Illo Fridays here..
To feel more Robot LOVE click here...

Album cover - The Sensational Robot Band!

I bought some new charcoal pencils the other day, and used them for this sketch. These guys seem like they'd be a blast to go see in your local club! A little different style for me, so suggestions/comments are as always totally appreciated. Original sketch is here. (Honestly i think i kinda like the original sketch better before adding color.)

(Doh! the square image cuts off, so click through to see it fully)

Supernatural - A Faux-Vintage Cthulhu Ad Poster

Continuing in the theme of my Ad Posters... here is Cthulhu advertising squid.
Hey, he needed a quick paycheck!



(as always comments welcomed, cuz i need to feel loved..!)

War, good god y'all..

What is it good for?

Apparently collecting little robot shrunken heads...!

The Primative Robot:

Pencil sketch, scanned and colored in Photoshop.

Conveniently enough, this was my IF sketch for Primative, and i thought it worked well for the War theme as well.

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"Fail" for Illustration Friday

The theme on illustration friday this week is Fail, and after much pondering, I decided to focus on one of the failed marriages of our childhood. I present the wife of Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater.


Pencil sketch, colored in Photoshop.

See the other nursery rhymes in the series....

Willy Wonka

Pencil sketch, colored in photoshop. Click through for the whole thing.

This was fun to do... I've always been a huge fan!

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Pirate Pinup Girl

Not thrilled with how the line work turned out on this -- was trying a new technique -- but i like her anyway...

Save for Illustration Friday

I'm still working on my Pirate ... there are some great ones out here already!

But here is my IF entry for the Save theme...

We couldn't save him, so we made an omelet



Part of my ongoing Nursery Rhymes mini series

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Wonder Woman - Pulp/anime crossover

If japanese anime style was around in the 40's.

Change - Organic Abstract 2

Lately I've been obsessed with random abstract surreal doodles (like this week's illo friday) so for the Change theme, I invite you to ponder the change effected when you take a stark black and white drawing, and color it. I have a set of these (7 actually) which are ink drawings done on the back of business cards. I've been trying to decide what to do with them, colorwise, and honestly, i think somehow coloring them seems to not be as impactful as the pure black and white. Or maybe it's just this one. I really can't decide...



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Leap - and the new contest...

I did this for Illustration Friday this week...
Also, this is the logo for this month's April Fool contest. The Anti-Valentines day contest was well received, but there were alot more crafty entries than illustrations, so I'm hoping my artist friends will be more in evidence with this one!



Sketched in pencil (long work meeting!), scanned, colored in photoshop.