Here’s an illustration I whipped up for my 22 month old daughter. She’s really into giraffes these days and now that she’s talking we like to play a game where she calls out something  and I draw it. Or sometimes I draw it and she tells me what it is. In most cases it involves a magnadoodle or a sketch pad and crayons (that way she can add to the drawings too). This one is much more polished than that and is something she can hang on her wall.

The custom illustrated professor icons project is complete. There is a series of 14 images representing each week of the semester. Each professor starts off cheery and energized and ends up worn out and eventually passed out by the end. This is for use on a BC Graduate School of Social Work online instructors repository/ course management site. The samples above are images from the start of the series and the end. Didn’t want to fill the page with all of them, but you get the idea. The style of character is intended to represent old faculty from decades ago, keeping with the theme of imagery on the rest of the site.  

I’ve been behind on coming up with new material to post to the blog lately, too much work on my plate. One big project I’ve got in the works is redesigning and building my website in Drupal. I’ll have a post with a preview soon.

This weeks Illustration Friday word was easy. There is only one thing I think of now a days when I hear the word moon. That’s my 21 month old daughter chanting moon! moon!; requesting a read of Goodnight Moon before she goes to bed each night.   

Here’s my initial sketches for some custom icon designs I’m doing for the BC School of Social Work. It’s for a repository site that professors will use. The final sets will show the different professors in a variety of poses and expressions with each representing a different week in the semester. They will start out cheery and end up passed out on the podium by the final week.

I’m joined the Sugar Frosted Goodness family. I am now contributing to this great blog that’s a collaborative of many talented illustrators. Definitely a site to bookmark or add to your blogroll.

Ahhh. Nothing like a fresh pair of Aquaman Underoos.Although this illustration was inspired by the word geeky, I wouldn’t say you’re necessarily a geek for wearing them. I know I felt pretty cool sporting my pair as a kid back in the 80s. 

Here’s a sample of some illustration work I recently completed for the Boston College First-Year Writing Program website.

Here’s the image  I whipped up for this weeks Illustration Friday theme, Twist.
I don’t think I made it very clear here but the bear is having a hard time twisting off the honey jar lid. Hence the flames of frustration (although it does look more like a forest fire). Animating it would help illustrate things here.

Here is my first crack at drawing something for Illustration Friday. This weeks topic; camouflage