Late, again. I put this off because I’m still way, way behind in my freelance work, but I promised myself I would do these once a week without fail for the sake of building up some kind of illustration portfolio, so I started on this yesterday after re-reading the story illustrated. Like last time, brownie points go to the first person who guesses the story. Side note: had I gone the lazy route, I would have posted an old commissioned…
3 days late and $300 short. I didn’t actually start this until long after Friday, but what the heck. I’m trying to fit in more personal art, and Illustration Friday seems to be the way to do it. So here you go. First to guess the story illustrated gets brownie points. 🙂 Share this post:
For the cover of Love and Magic, the two authors made a couple of requests. Trista requested a castle on the cover, and Shara requested something out of Hollywood Cemetery, which is located in Richmond, Virginia. As always, I said I would do what I could and made no promises. That’s when Shara offered me the use of her father’s photos from Hollywood Cemetery. I gave my usual disclaimers about resolution and quality, but as it turned out, one of…
Well, here’s Git, disguised as a little girl and running away from the secret agent assigned to his case, who is in turn trying to get away from the Oireachtas dance competition bouncer, who in turn thinks the secret agent is a pervert. It’s actually a really cute story written by G. Allen Wilbanks—great narrating voice and funny as hell. And the descriptive metaphors are priceless: Hundreds of miniature, beauty-queen caricatures flashed past me, ricocheting off of furniture, walls, and…
I’m currently working on an illustration for a story called “River Gnome Dance”—which involves a river gnome named Git who is really, really into Irish dancing. The Michael Flatley kind of Irish dancing, that is. I haven’t gotten around to drawing and coloring Git yet, but I have one of a hundred little girls that show up in the story, posted above. So far, I’m picturing a J.K. Rowling house elf in some kind of Riverdance girl’s outfit, and I’m…