IF: "Poem" finished!

My younger brother and I played "School" when we were little. I used to teach him things on a little chalkboard in our rooms. This girl is teaching rhymes to her little brother, to go with the IllustrationFriday theme "Poem." (finished now, from july26 post)

detail (digital mixed media)

IllustrationFriday: Moon

A few crafty critters of QuietThorne Forest were off to enjoy the new serenity back home. Their plan to convince that bothersome woodpecker the moon is made of wood had actually worked!

details [p.s. I've finished coloring my "Poem" drawing here]

IllustrationFriday: Poem

[update: finished piece here] My younger brother and I played "School" when we were little. I used to teach him things on a little chalkboard in our rooms. This girl is teaching rhymes to her little brother, to go with the IF theme "Poem." At first, the topic was uninspiring to me in the way of making a children's market illustration, until I realized I could make an illustration of kids learning rhyming. This week I could only finish the pencil drawing and I added this limited color very quickly in PhotoShop. Quick coloring can loosen your style up a little bit now and then anyway.

Improvement to my Geeky IF

For my last IF "Geeky" illustration, (view here), my husband and best critic said, "the horse looks like a My Little Pony." :) So while the horse already bothered me and I loved the style of the zebras, I redrew the horse and here it is!I liked that one zebra on the right so much that I'll be making a T-shirt of him (below).

IllustrationFriday: Discovery

She was fingerpainting until she discovered how to make a handprint. Distracted by this new discovery, her experiment moved from the hardwood area where she began, toward an area she found a new surface on which to exhibit her work!

TheSquirrel's IF "geeky"

by TheSquirrel, age 3. Construction paper. Mommy cut the shapes but TheSquirrel chose the placement and glued them down. Then she added glasses and it's ready for IF! :)

IllustrationFriday: Geeky

But who is the oddball now?click to view closer

Sad that we can add black-rimmed glasses to anything and they're suddenly geeky or nerdy. (Sorry to anyone who sports black-rimmed glasses!) Therefore this IF topic was like, "what animal do I feel like drawing, then just add glasses." Anyway I went further with an actual concept to the glasses theme:

Everyone has the geeky glasses, + Someone without the geeky glasses = coolness is relative. :)

The zebra versus the horse was a great avenue for this. sketching zebras:

a composition sketch:

and Photoshop is a great tool for composition adjustments: Anyway here is something my 3-year-old and I made together: I cut out the zebra shape and she drew the stripes on. teehee

My old blog (pitter patter)

To you illustrationfriday viewers, I was PitterPatter. Here is my old blog if you wanted to see anything of mine I did previously. I really always wanted the name "White Shoes" and finally realized how I can title it White Shoes!!