Happy Valentine's!

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Our Little Bean

Yep, that's right! I'm pregnant! And here is the first picture of our little bean...

"Hurley-David Jr. -- 32 weeks before birth." -- GIMP, Sept 1st, 2006.


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Illo Friday - Skyline

GIMP


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Illo Friday -- Dance

After so long away from the blog, how could I resist this topic on Illo Friday?

When we salsa, it's like magic...



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"Happy Birthday to Moooo"

Happy Birthday María!

María is a big fan of cows. So I thought I would send her a little birthday moosic for her birthday.


Here is the original drawing I did:

Click to enlarge

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Illo Friday - Monster (2)

I felt like a break from all those motherhood drawings I've been doing (here and here), so I thought I would return to this week's Illo Friday topic for another go at that monster theme. This is from a doodle I was doing in my sketchbook.
Pen, Ink, & GIMP.

And the original sketch...
Pen & Ink Wash

Maybe this is just why I do so many B&W images... I think I prefer the B&W sketch over the colorized one. Then again, I am still learning how to use GIMP to add color/depth to my drawings. Maybe when I get better at that, I will like those versions of my drawings more.


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Happy St. Patty's Day!

And Happy Birthday to our buddy, Jason S.! :)


I hope you're wearing green!


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Illo Friday - Feet

Watching the Sunrise - GIMP.


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Illo Friday - Tattoo (Second Submission)

GIMP.

I watched GERALD MCBOING BOING last night and was a little inspired by the style. Can you tell? ;)


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Allaboo!

My new Allaboo!
GIMP



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Illo Friday - Tattoo

GIMP.

Ugh. This took me all freakin day! I used this project to learn how to do vector drawings. This is my first one ever! I also had to learn several features on GIMP I had never tried before, such as creating patterns (which wasn't fun on the Mac.)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this week's Illo-Friday submission. I call him "Tattoo Man."



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Black Sheep

Pen & GIMP.

I plan on putting this onto some Cafe Press stuff, but I am working on a caption. Haven't found the right one yet. I intended it to be about knitting, but it could be something else.

Hmmm.....


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Alien Children's Story Sketches

Back in 2001, I wrote this children's story about an alien. But I just couldn't find the right alien character illustration for my story. I finally abandoned the project after several months, but I took it up again today. This is how my main character, Allaboo, looked when I left him...

Pen and GIMP.

Here are some old sketches, new sketches, and a possible new version of my Allaboo...


Some old sketches - Pen and Colored Pencil.


Some new sketches - Pen.



A new Allaboo? - Pen & GIMP.


Here is another potential character...
Pen & GIMP


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Elias - some old sketches

I decided to put up some of my old sketches (as I find them.) Here is the first one.

Pen and GIMP.

From a sketch I did of my nephew Elias a couple of years ago.

Here are the original sketches...




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Illo Friday - Tea (2nd Submission)

Tea anyone?

I was having fun with GIMP and created this from a little tea sketch I did this morning. I think I might need to make some kitchen curtains! Ha!


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Amazing Circles

I found this thing called Amazing Circles which is basically a technique of photo manipulation that is so popular on the internet that there are entire clubs that create these all the time. I read the how to and thought I'd give it a shot. Thing is, mine are done in GIMP instead of Photoshop, so it's not quite as pretty, plus, I haven't yet figured out how to get that reflective/translucence thing down yet that makes the really good ones look totally 3D. But I still had fun. Check out these three that I made.

This one (left) is from some snowy branches by our house. I love the delicacy of some of the lines, but the image looks very flat to me.
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This one (right) is a close up of a display at the Bellagio in Vegas. I love the way that most of it looks like some kind of metallic icing. But the white part is an error of some kind. Not sure what happened.
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This one (left) is looking up inside a building with a skylight. I tried really hard to make this one more 3D. It's my fave of the 3, but I am not there yet.

Ah well. Fun to experiement.
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