Rain – Illustration Friday

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I had fun drawing my dancing frog for last week's Illustation Friday theme...so, I thought I would bring her back again this week. This time she is singing in the rain (or right after as the case may be). I thought this little froggy looked lonely, so I drew her a pet gecko. Here in Texas, we get geckos in our home all of the time. I learned that having a gecko in your home is good luck...so, this little froggy must have GREAT luck since she has a gecko for a pet! This was my inspiration for this week's Illustration Friday.

Dance – Illustration Friday

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Here it is, late Thursday afternoon, and I am FINALLY completing this week's Illustration Friday. I decided to take a short break from drawing (and the computer) this week, but had to follow through with my promise to myself to complete each and every challenge! So...better late than never! I didn't draw a sketch this week, rather just "doodled" in Illustrator and came up with my dancing frog. Nothing spectacular...and, rather a quickie. I guess you could say doodling with no direction was my inspiration for this week's Illustration Friday.

Jungle – Illustration Friday

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Here it is, Wednesday, and I'm finally completing my Illustration Friday. I can't say it was due to lack of time, but rather motivation on my part. Well, sticking with my promise to myself to complete each and every Illustration Friday, I finally decided to get out my sketchbook and draw.

I wanted to draw something different. For sure there were going to be tons of exotic jungle scenes, monkeys, jungle animals, tarzans, etc. But, being the kind of gal I TRY to be, I wanted to be different. Therefore, I decided to draw a simple scene of a hobo camped out in his Hobo Jungle. Originally I had graffiti on the wall...but, opted to draw a few symbols from the Hobo Alphabet instead...this way I could make the illustration a bit dated. This was my inspiration for this week's Illustration Friday topic, "Jungle."

I also decided to play a bit, so I recorded a snippit of me drawing in Adobe Illustrator. You can find it on YouTube by clicking here.

Portrait – Illustration Friday

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When I was younger, I always wanted to be a schoolteacher. Better yet, an elementary school art teacher. Well, I sort of followed my dream, and about four years ago I began teaching Graphic Communication at a local college. This ended up being my dream job! Who would think I would go from wanting to teach first graders to teaching college students. This initial dream was my inspiration for this week's Illustration Friday topic, "Portrait."

I was playing around this afternoon; and came up with a sepia version. For some reason, I always love the way illustrations look when they are duotone, or have an old feel to them.

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Bonus Portrait:

For our final project in my college Drawing I class, we had to create a series of artwork. Since I loved doing portraits, I chose to do classic film stars. This is just one of the portraits I created. Can you tell who it is (yes, the name of the file name WILL give it away)? It was drawn with charcoal on plain old 19" x 25" drawing paper. Gee...I really need to get my conventional art goodies out!