Art Nouveau: Moon Dreamer

 Pen & Ink with digital color

Converting my original images to vectors gave it this stylized look.
I wanted the image to have the feel of art nouveau stained glass.

(1) scanned pen and ink drawing (2) vectorized line art (3) digital color (4) vectorized color (5) color and line art vectors combined

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A Year of Illustration Friday: 2011

 

 

 

I'm quite ashamed to see how few Illustration Friday prompts I finished in 2011.

2012 resolutions, anyone?

IF: Messenger

Pencil sketch, rather badly photographed

Mary Lou always begged to be Grandpa's messenger--it was such fun to talk into his ear trumpet!

I ♥ Jane Austen

Random sketches paired with a bumper sticker a friend brought from Bath:

Oh yes. 

(Though "I ♥ Tilney" would, perhaps, be slightly more accurate; who can resist the witty hero whose room is strewed with his litter of books, guns, and greatcoats, and who is, if not quite handsome, very near it?) :)

Steampunk Teatime: Part 2

Pen & Ink with digital color 

Uncle Robert had grown resigned . . .  

Part 1: Aunt Kitty

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Steampunk Teatime (if: Vanity)

Pen & Ink with digital color

Aunt Kitty was rather vain of her new motoring goggles

and firmly refused to remove them, even for tea.

Part 2: Uncle Robert

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Autumn Walks . . . .

Pencil sketch--needs ink and watercolor. Soon. :)

Yikes. Lately I've been too busy with Getting-Ready-For-Winter activities to blog much--though I have been drawing and enjoying the fall colors with my gold gel pen.
But . . . I will be busy brainstorming story ideas in November for Picture Book Idea Month!

The Princess and the Goblin

Pen, ink wash & watercolor

Irene and Curdie in the mountain--a scene from one of my favorite childhood books,
The Princess and the Goblin.

Here's a bit of the process:

The Story of Cedric (IF: Disguise)

Pencil sketch (while traveling; thus the wobbly spelling) with digital color

From "The Story of Cedric," narrated by the strictly-truthful Mr. Mulliner:

"You ask me to put on yellow shoes with morning-clothes?" he whispered, the face beneath his shining silk hat pale and drawn.
"Yes."
"Here? In the Park? At the height of the Season?"
"Yes. Do hurry."
"But . . ."
"Mr. Mulliner! Surely? To oblige me?"

And, recollecting that this girl is not only the daughter of an Earl, but also related to the ffrench-ffarmiloes (not Kent ffrench-ffarmiloes but the Dorsetshire lot), he agrees to switch his tasteful black boots for her fiance's yellow atrocities--and spends the rest of the story trying to disguise his shocking footwear, which will ultimately turn him into a Revolutionary and (this is Wodehouse, after all) an engaged man.

Rapunzel. I think. (IF: Influence)

Pencil with digital color

 

I'm sure that Rapunzel spent many hours creating elaborate new ways to fix her hair . . .

This is another "I should be working on something else but I want to draw long hair!" picture. (Yes, this happens to me frequently, which is why I 'specially enjoyed this custom blogger template.) Her dress is quite influenced by my favorite fashion era, the 1910s.