Illustration Friday: Cocoon

Here's my image for 'Cocoon'.
It immediately brought the idea of change to mind. This idea and image arose from the feeling of possibly being on the brink of a big change, but not knowing where life is heading. And not being sure what changes are occurring, and what they might engender.
Sometimes it can feel like a risk, leaving behind the world you know in the hope of something new, and you can get caught between wanting things to stay the same, and wanting them to change.
I'm not sure why it came out so creepy, though.
Maybe thats just what its like inside my head.

Illustration Friday: Ahead

When it comes to matters of fashion, Vince is always one step ahead of the flock.

Illustration Friday: Detective

For this week's theme, Detective, I've tried a film noir-style ensemble of the characters from Cluedo.
This isn't really what I was after originally, but its pretty cool!

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.