IF_Polar-Bear

Okay, not a great stretch of the imagination, but here it is.This is a pencil sketch that I ran through Photoshop to add the background and fur coloration. To make up for the lack of creative thinking, I am adding a comic to go along with.
I am currently in college for my associates degree in Graphic Design and Animation. Apparently the instructor for Human Relations at work choose a real hot button topic for the online forum. I hope The instructor has some objectivity. I did the original in number two pencil, took it for a long ride through Illustrator for the background and then painted it up in photoshop. Here's The original.
I'm still working on it. Have fun everybody.

Something Different

My son three year old son Xavier loves to draw, especially on walls. So to keep him on the paper we have turned a creative exercise into a game. He draws on the page, (at this point it's scribbling but wait till he gets older) and mommy finds pictures in his drawings. The above and below are inspired by some of Xavier's latest sketches.

IF_Fortune

This weeks Illustration Friday*com theme is fortune. I used to make a ton of crystal ball sketches like this when I was a teenager.Back then though the subjects inside the ball were usually lost in some forsaken forest. Chalk it up to teenage moodiness.

Story of a Bald Frog- sans illustrations

There once was a green frog named Joe.

Whose hair he just could not grow.

The situation did nothing but vex him,

Each time he saw his reflection

And soft breezes would blow.

Now, along comes a toad named Ned.

Quite ashamed of his shiny bald head.

He had tried every rub,

Every sprinkle and scrub-

Said to make one’s mane grow.

Well Joe saw Ned, and Ned saw Joe.

Then both of them said “Oh”.

They were quick to discover

From seeing each other

They both suffer the same woe.

So they set up a shop in Reeseda.

with a seamstress named Rita.

Now they sell hats and wigs

take custom made gigs.

And business hasn’t been too slow.

green_try2

green_try2
Originally uploaded by LJS Design.

I started this for a pet project I am working on and thought maybe I could try it for a second stab at green.

IF Green

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Originally uploaded by LJS Design.

I started out with colored pencils, but when I added marker to the face I got an painted texture. I am not very familiar with markers and I am trying to get used to them.
If you can spare a few tips to a green horn, please feel free to comment.
Criticism is welcomed.

IF_Snap

About to snap and throw a conniption fit. Done in pencil.I was going to use the mermaids below for this weeks IF, but yesterday , after the third phone call I made was heading nowhere , I started to scratch out this one. Coincidentally, this is an accurate picture of me before I gave up coffee. I hate Mondays

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I'm a Pisces , but I wanted a better symbol. So if it has to be a pair of fish.....Markers and color pencils, background was done in photoshop