Illustration Friday: Similar

This is my image for IF's topic 'Similar'.

Illustration Friday: 'Balloon'

This is my image for IF's topic 'Balloon'. I originally like the idea of a fat little imp on top of a balloon, attacking it, but the image has slowly evolved into a large-scale attack by some sort of cat-demon monster.....thing.

Illustration Friday: 'Opinion'

What to say? I had a lot of trouble coming up with an image for this topic - but when the idea finally found me, I liked it.
A little inspiration came from the legendary Raymond Brigg's equally legendary Fungus the Bogeyman.

IllustrationFriday: 'Pretend'

Here is my image for IF's topic 'Pretend'.

Hmm.

I'm not sure really where this image came from. It started out as the idea of a squirrel dressed up as a duck (with flippers and a tied-on beak), stood amidst a crowd of unsuspecting ducks and grinning. Then, the duck-dressed squirrel standing ankle-deep in a pond with a single, sceptical duck - the caption for the squirrel being simply 'Quack?'.

Then I put the squirrel in a tree, still dressed as a duck. Which made no sense - so i dressed him as a monster, and had him startling another squirrel. Because squirrels are so skittish, i thought it would be funnier if the other squirrel was simply bored.

And then it seemed funny if the monster costume was removed altogether. Apart from the feet.

And I was more-or-less left with the above image. Which i still find funny, although now I'm really far from sure what the joke is.....

The squirrel pretending is called Gary in tribute to Gary Larson.

Illustration Friday: 'Wise'

This is my image for Illustration Friday's topic 'Wise'.

Packed

Here's an image i produced for an older topic on Illustration Friday: 'Packed' which i produced to try out some new software.

Vacant2

Here's an unfinished image, which was my original intended image for Illustration Friday's 'Vacant' topic.

Illustration Friday: Vacant

This pencil sketch is for Illustration Friday's theme 'Vacant'.

This is the original pen and ink sketch for 'Repair' - which needed an extensive remodelling of the right arm!

IllustrationFriday: 'Repair'

This is my image for Illustration Friday's topic 'Repair'. Time constraints meant that I had to reduce this to a monochrome drawing, with no background. I intended to have the robot working in a wooden toolshed, surrounded by chains, gears and spare parts on all sides, and to colour and shade the whole image in orange/red/brown tones.

IllustrationFriday: 'Late'

"...nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the rabbit say to itself,

'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!' "

This, the White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is my

entry for IllustrationFriday's topic 'Late'.

IllustrationFriday: Strings

This is my image for the IllustrationFriday topic 'Strings'