Illustration Friday: Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu

(digital - illustration friday)

"I have seen this face somewhere... the eyes for sure... and the lips seem to be familiar... no, wait, it is the forehead... or the nose...?"

Well. You are not the only one. The portrait was put together from photographs of 6 world famous actresses who were the ultimate sex symbols of their era.

Rejected Dreams

Rejected Dreams

(digital art - Photoshop)

Illustration Friday: Artificial

Artificial

(graphite and digital  - illustration friday)

Illustration Friday: Double

Double

(pencil drawing with digital background  - illustration friday)

Illustration Friday: Diary

Art Journal July 9, 2010

(graphite, colored pencils and pen - illustration friday)

Well. I am well aware that the topic itself was "Diary", and I have toyed with several ideas in connection with it, but in the end I am just posting a recent page of my everyday Art Journal (presently a Moleskine). It was created on the way to my in-laws in the car, just for fun and to kill the time. Kinda zombie woman or what.

Intermezzo

I have gotten emails on 3 new comments of this blog but for the life of me I do not understand where they are or where they have disappeared in the blog (i.e. why aren't they showing up as usual, among the comments below). I do not moderate comments, etc. It might just be a short-term blogger melt down, however, I wanted to let you know that it was not me, I swear.

It is annoying and hasn't happened so far.

UPDATE (a day later): the blog still does not show the new comments. I apologize - but no clue what to do.

UPDATE 2: it seems to me blogger en bloc is experiencing this problem (not just me). A whole lot of blogs have the same problem. I reported it (there is a whole section now as well as a separate form for this concrete issue). We'll see.

UPDATE 3: it is about noon, July 7, and it seems to me blogger at last recovered.***

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***except for Andrew. He is hated by blogger.

Illustration Friday: Giant

Giant
(pencil drawing with digital background - illustration friday)

In Context

In Context
(pencil drawing and collage with digital background)


I am not very happy with the result: the statement is weak and pretty commonplace-y. I have had a relatively large pencil drawing (the person in the roots) for months and been waiting for the Real Thought to finish the trunk. Well, I just lost my patience and finished it a couple of hours ago. The digital background helped it a bit, and who knows, it might end up as a totally different image in the future...

Procession

Procession
Collage painting - approx. 78" x 59".
(White charcoal drawing on painted canvas, acrylics, pine crosses, wire, fabric)

Need To Let It Go (Ode To A City)

Ode To A City (Need To Let It Go)
(pencil drawing, collage, little Photoshop)

Art Triennale Poster

Poster design
(computer graphics - Photoshop)

Dickhead

Dickhead
(computer graphics - Photoshop)

Illustration Friday: Ripples (The Oil Spill)

The Oil Spill (Ripples)
(digital art, purely Photoshop - illustration friday)

A bit fucked up, but I did not have time and energy to correct it.

The illustration was made with the help of two tutorials.

Cybug

Cybug
(computer graphics - Photoshop)

Wanted to make a photorealistic colorado beetle (it is coming some time) with colored pencils (halfly done), but meanwhile I got entangled with this and felt like finishing it. All together approx. 15-18 8-10 hours. I am falling in love with painting in Photoshop, I guess. Never thought it would happen, until I discovered some really cool techniques. (As it happens, the whole adventure started with a certain tut.)

Stock images from here. 

Illustration Friday: Trail(s)

Trails
(pencil drawing, pen and sewing machine - illustration friday)

Under the drawing there are fragments of the three books which have formed me all my life; without them I would not be what I am now. As a matter of fact, I would not be at all. But it is a long story.

The quoted texts are from A kitömött hattyú by Péter Esterházy, Shakespeare Our Contemporary by Jan Kott and Iskola a határon by Géza Ottlik.

The Snail Fairy

The snail fairy
(digital collage)

Fairy stock from here.

Illustration Friday: Earl-y

Earl-y Flight
(pencil drawing with digital background - illustration friday)

As I am buried with my Master's stuff, just a quick image pun.

The Forgotten Elephant Invasion

The Forgotten Elephant Invasion
(digital collage)

...till death do us apart...

...till death do us apart...
(pencil drawing and collage on an accounting sheet)

The story is similar to my Face-off. I have found an old ink jet print of a 19th century photograph in one of my old folders. It is approximately twice as big as the original picture, and was printed on cardstock. I seem to be obsessed with spilling liguid as this one has gotten some too. And the spots were so beautiful and discolored that I had to integrate them into the final drawing.

I evidently cannot get rid of my flying stuff, but I really do not mind it...

Appr. 8" x 16".

Face-off

Face-off
(pencil drawing, copied electronically and digital background added)

Has a history. I needed a devious older face for a work, and I drew one. But I was not sure how I was going to use it, so I copied it several times on several sheets of paper to experiment. This was a left over. I evidently spilled different kinds of liquid onto it several times, got a tape spot, etc. (We are talking about years.) I found it a couple of days ago in an old folder of mine, and fell in love with its surprise: the naturally tattered, shabby, grungy look. So I manipulated a bit more in Photoshop and kind of liked the result.

Illustration Friday: Equipment

Equipment
(pencil drawing with digital background - illustration friday)

Image inspiration: fantastic figures from Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel, 1565 Paris. 
Concept inspiration: the shameless and awful pedophile, Joseph Ratzinger.

Demons

Demons
(charcoal pencil, pastel, graphite, embroidery floss, sawing machine + thread)

With Flying Colors

With Flying Colors
(pencil drawing with digital background)

Fearless 2.

Fearless Ageing
(digital variation of a pencil drawing - illustration friday)

Illustration Friday: Fearless

Fearless Ageing
(pencil drawing with digital background - illustration friday)

Those magnificent fish and their flying machines...

Those magnificent fish and their flying machines...
(pencil drawing with digital background)

Showing the Direction

Showing the Direction
(pencil drawing with digital background)

Bagel

Bagel
(pencil drawing with digital background)

Illustration Friday: Cocoon

Cocoon
(digital collage - illustration friday)

Rebellion of Screams

Rebellion of Screams
(graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, acrylics, felt tip pen, collage, embroidery floss)

Whale Balloon

Whale Balloon
(collage and pencil drawing with digital background)

I am playing around with a new style that I have come across and liked very much. The whale reference image is borrowed but unfortunatelly I forgot to mark from where. I apologize.

Island

Island
(a bad, but undertaken pencil drawing with digital background)

Evidently, I drew this in a very tight and uptight, nervous, irritated mood, when everything else was more important than drawing.

Illustration Friday: Ahead

Or...?

What Lies Ahead
(digitally manipulated pencil drawing - illustration friday)
It was inspired by a famous poster from the 70s.

Follow the leader No.2.

No. 2.

(grafit)

Follow the leader, No. 2.
(graphite)

Ancient Civilization

Ancient Civilization
(graphite)

M on key

M on key
(digital art - just monkeying around with a tut, nothing original in the design)

Flight

Flight
(digital collage)

Illustration Friday: Expired

Expired
(graphite - illustration friday)

The Ringmaster

The Ringmaster
(graphite, watercolor, pen + old dictionary pages and embroidery floss)

Masquerade

 

 

Masquerade
(collage painting)

Illustration Friday: Perspective

Perspective
(mixed media - illustration friday)

Bridgehouse sketch

Bridgehouse sketch
(watercolor with pen)

Winter of Our Discontent

Winter of Our Discontent
(digitally manipulated watercolor)


games
winter
winter games
winter discontent
our winter discontent
winter of our discontent

Illustration Friday: Propag(ate)

Propag(ate)
(digitally manipulated pencil drawing - illustration friday)

Train(ing).

Train(ing)
(Illustrator and Photoshop)

Candy

Candy
(digital illustration)

Illustration Friday: Adrift

Adrift
(digitally manipulated pencil and felt tip marker drawing - illustration friday)

The March

The March

(collage painting)