Illustration Friday "Song"

All you need is love, love. Love is all you need.
- The Beatles, "All You Need Is Love."

Ok, I admit, it's pretty darn cheesy, but the image is actually for a valentines theme for the Swedish Illustrators website. Then when I was pondering what to do for "song" the lyrics popped into my head and I couldn't seem to think of anything else. Well, except for an orchestra of birds, but I am not feeling energetic enough to do another image(!) If you want to shoot me for cheeze go ahead! *rofl* Anyways, he's cute and I'm getting a little bit inspired to write a story called "The Little Dragon with the Big Heart" ("Den lilla draken med det stora hjärtat).

Drawings of kids

These two drawings were done as trials for upcoming children's book illustration. A lady who comissions bookcovers was interested to see how I would cope with drawing children. So one thing on my plate of "many-things-to-do" is to draw some children (click on them to enlarge btw) in the hope that I can send off some nice evidence of being able to portray kids being, well, kids. The guy at the top is actually an angry angel though, even if he's still a kid. Oh and the "nää" in swedish is slang for no, and "brum, brum" is basically "vroom" -- car noise in other words.

"Simple" for Illustration Friday

This is my first image after a bit of a break -- I've been a bit bogged down with other stuff to do. I have ideas for the subjects that have been, but I'm not sure that I'll get round to doing them This was the first thing that popped into my mind when I pondered the subject "Simple". It is one of my favorite organisms since it is so simple yet so amazingly complex to be single-celled, and cute too. It is a single-celled organism called Paramecium (commonly found in freshwater eg. ponds) that swims about using it's tiny cilia. It swims pretty fast -- four times it's own length in one second -- wow! It can also reproduce in two ways -- either split into two; "simple division" (binary fission) or join temporarily with another Paramecium and exchange nuclear material; "conjugation". After which they swim away and continue to reproduce by simple division. Anyhow, enough with the Biology lesson. Toodleloo!