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.

Merry Christmas in Swedish!

"God Jul" everyone! And a Happy New Year too. The pic represents some traditional Swedish gingerbread shapes. :)

Illustration Friday "Holiday"

Here's my take on Illustration Friday's theme for the week...apologies for lateness, I have a pic for last week coming up but I've been a tad busy so I haven't had time to post it yet. Watch this space(!) ;)

My mascot :) I wanted to use him as my profile pic, but inept as I am at using this at the mo (I'm at the begining of the blogging learning curve alright!) I'm gonna post him here and link the URL to here... er... I'm sure there's a better way of doing it right?

Illustration Friday "Blue"

Here's my take on this week's theme "Blue." It turned out to be wrapping paper design, probably because of my recent visit to Tigerprint(!) I guess the idea is rather obvious, a decorative wrapping paper featuring animals whose names begin with "blue..."

Illustration Friday "Small"

Illustration for Illustration Friday on the topic "small." I like penguins, and they can be pretty small sometimes -- at least compared to monsters *wink* (didn't finish this one on time to submit it, but I'll post it anyway since this rather charming character popped into my head).