Illustration Friday: Linked

It took me the best part of a week just to come up with inspiration for this one!
This idea came to me in the wee small hours as I struggled to get to sleep, and struck me as being
something I'd like to do. So I did it.

Illustration Friday: Dip

Yes. Its a Diplodocus.

Illustration Friday: Expired

This week was a great topic which immediately brought to mind one of my favourite characters: Count Dracula. The ultimate bad guy, who swings between eccentric gentleman and dark, animalistic horror. A truly menacing and terrifying creation he is.

I ended up going with generic vampire as it was easier than trying to portray the Count himself.
Maybe next time.....

Illustration Friday: Subterranean

Originally, I wanted to draw a massive robot in the centre of the earth, hooked up to powerlines running down from the cities. It was too difficult and certainly not something i could churn out in a week.
I thought about what surprising or strange things one might find if one dug deep enough, and variously tried
robots, giant newspaper-reading bunnies, another smaller planet earth, and an upside-down version of the city on the surface.
Inspiration failing and frustration mounting, I went and bought a shovel and started digging in my back
garden. When i finally got there, it turned out that what was lying in wait was the enormous skeletons of
dead lava monsters. Kind of obvious, really.
So that's what I drew.

Illustration Friday: Brave

For this week's IF theme, a Native American brave.

IF: Propagate

This week, a fun experiment for Illustration Friday's topic 'propagate.'

Starting with a small circle in the centre, I worked on only a tiny fraction of the image at a time, allowing each pattern to influence the next to see if a pleasing overall design would be propagated.

It was.

Illustration Friday: Muddy

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little fishes in,
With gently smiling jaws!