Illustration Friday "safe"

At long last an image! Been way to busy with my company and family matters, so there's been no time for Illo Fridays... but lo and behold, a new image on the "safe" theme. Enjoy, and lets hope I can get an illo in next week as well. Bye!

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Illustration Friday "Dance"

A dancing mouse...

In reality "dancing mice" do exist(!), unfortunately their reality is somewhat less fun than my mouse seems to be having. Dancing mice have a hereditary defect in the brain that affects their sense of balance. This causes them to reel from side to side, or run around in circles, hence their other names "reeler mice" or "spinning mice". A similar human condition is called Huntington's Disease.

Illustration Friday "angels and devils"

Here's my second contribution this week to make up for a period of silence on my part. I'm gonna put it down to being completely floored by the pollen and spring. The elephants came out of a bit of a word-association jump. When pondering the theme for this week I thought "aha, deviled eggs" (food thingy where you take a boiled egg, cut it in half, remove the yolks and mash 'em up with some spices and other yummy stuff, there's lots of variations on this recipie) , and then I thought "deviled elephant". So this is actually a picture of "devil-ed" and "angel-ed" elephants. Food for thought eh? I think it would make nice wrapping paper...

Illustration Friday "angels and devils"

Well, here we go, a finished version! :) And hopefully a static link (sorry Penelope and thanks for the tip, I didn't realise you could click on the date! I'm not exactly the most experienced blogging-person around!).

Illustration Friday "angels and devils"

These are two sketches that are not yet complete on this week's theme. I thought that since it was a while since I posted something I'll reveal work-in-progess. The bottom one was inspired by "deviled eggs" and so I thought why not "deviled elephants" (and an angeled one too). Probably won't finish them today, but I'm almost ready for celebrating since I've actually been feeling well enough to draw (g-dang pollen allergy!).

Illustration Friday "Spring"

Spring is here (not yet in Sweden though, it's still snowing here -- please someone tell the White Witch to bugger off and leave us alone, we're sick of winter) and the frost leaves the ground releasing more than just an early Snowdrop...hehehe *evil chuckle* This is an ode to all the zombie-lovers out there, the world would've been a different place without George Romero don't you think?

Illustration Friday "Feet"

This is a pair of amazing feet - camel's feet. Brilliant and perfect for desert walking. The image is also part of a trial run to see what textures photoshop has to offer. (It's also way too late for illustration friday, but I thought I'd post it anyway). I'm back from my start-your-own-business course as well and there's loads to do and I'm feeling slightly knackered *sigh* What doesn't help is that my income tax forms have come in -- urrgle -- when I'm rich I'll employ a team of accountants to sort my life out for me. On the positive side I've had the pleasure to see a group of images published and looking good -- wohoo!

Update

Hiya people!

I hope you don't miss my drawings too much because I'm up to my neck in work. I'm currently attending a three-week crash course in having and starting your own company. Dearie me, lotsa work for Linny-poo. So be patient and new stuff will come next week when my life is less cluttered(!)

-Linn.

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!

Illustration Friday "E is for..."

E is for escargot! A French snail, or snail in French depending on how you see it... ;)

Illustration Friday "Sea"

Continuing on the theme of polarbears and penguins... here's one of both... out at sea relaxing I guess! ;) Afraid it's on the late side as I've had loads of other stuff to do...ach!

Illustration Friday "Flavour"

In Sweden we have these gummy sweetie fish made by the Swedish candy company "Malaco." I've seen them in the States being sold as "Swedish fish" and I think Malaco call themselves "Leaf" when they market products abroad. Anyhow, I thought of all these different flavoured fish, and then of what might eat fish. For some reason bears popped into my head and la voíla, we have a candy-loving polarbear.

Illustration Friday "Imagine" take two

After my partner commented on the whole "when pigs fly" concept being a bit stayed, I did this variation (upon his suggestion); "when pigs dive" ;)

Illustration Friday "Imagine"

A late image that I decided to post anyway, my take on "imagine" last, last week's theme.