Well, it’s another four years and the world gets ready for the Winter Olympics. This year it’s in Torino, Italy. What a beautiful city! Tonight was the opening ceremony as the official torch was lit.
This is my second entry to the Illustration Friday website. Today’s word is “simple”. What could be more “simple” then flying off a ski slope – on this Olympic night!
Here’s my first drawing that I am submitting for http://www.illustrationfriday.com/. The site inspires artists to submit weekly drawings to topics that change each week. This week’s topic is “chair”. Here’s how I tied in this “Super Bowl” weekend with the current topic. Isn’t it nice to see a loser for a change? Come back weekly to what else I might draw.
“Hey Daddio, Where’s my Sax?”, said the Cool Cat. Here’s a little drawing I did using the masking tool in Adobe Illustrator for the first time.
“Juan Tamad” (translated in tagalog as “Lazy Juan”) is a Filipino folklore character that inspired me to draw this piece. He is constantly trying to find ways to save himself from doing excess work. In this drawing, he is telling the crabs to get to his home, on their own, so he can sleep under his favorite guava tree.
I live close to San Francisco. Here is something I drew using the latest version of Illustrator. It’s new for me because I tried to get rid of the “cartoony” black lines that I usually put into my finished drawings. Thanks Joann Denning, my multimedia teacher, for introducing me to this new medium.
Here’s the finished artwork on the CD cover for “I left my heart in San Francisco”.
And for another assignment … a book for Rip Van Winkle.
