Illustration Friday: Space

I actually had this finished on Friday, but I've only gotten around to posting it now. Space has so many different meanings, but the first thing that popped into my head was a future that a friend had written for her character at the end of a game.

In the year 2072, Ernie finally got to see space. In the year 2190, Ernie returned to Earth as completion of the first Kinetic Portkey was completed, thereby linking the planets of Earth and Tharen together. Shortly afterwards, Ernie became the leader of a team of Ambassadors that travelled through the universe, looking for points of contact. In the year 2356, Ernie returned to Earth for the last time. He took pictures of EVERYTHING.

The image of Ernie on the ship working at magic was so solid and sudden that I drew it.

Illustration Friday - Suspense

Again, for Illustration Friday, I pushed myself to work fast and loose and not to depend too much on photo references.

It may be the upcoming weekend, but this was the first image that popped into my head in regards to the theme 'suspense'.

Illustration Friday - Sink

It's a few weeks late, but luckily the inspiration for the 'sink' prompt stuck in my head long enough to get to it when I had the time.

I was reading The Scorpio Races at the time, so I had (and still have in a way) kelpies/water horses on my mind. The prompt sink seemed very appropriate for that subject matter. Just like with the previous Illustration Friday piece, I was trying to push myself to not look at photo references and just, well, dive in and push through quickly and loosely.

Illustration Friday - Grounded

A bit late and attempting a new style a bit. It took awhile for this prompt to fully percolate in my head. It wasn't until Sunday that the idea hit me of how my character Luag would always feel grounded whenever his legs were touching Nate's under the table, even before they got together. So, I decided to go for that image and challenged myself by not looking at any photo references and just pushing through the drawing and going with the sepia coloring in photoshop to try and get the gritty feeling of the pub.

Illustration Friday - Stripes

It's a rather silly drawing for illustration Friday, but when I think of stripes I think of zebras which makes me think of this sketch I've had lying around waiting to be colored. I have a tendency to do My Little Pony versions of TV/cartoon/RPG characters when I get bored and I doodled Captain Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones ponies from Torchwood and then worked on a My Little Pony version of the tenth Doctor from Doctor Who. So, here it is, finally finished and colored.

Illustration Friday: Midsummer Night

So, my first Illustration Friday. I've been meaning to do these for awhile, but I had done a good deal of research for the Solstice already, so the idea for this just came easily.

The stones are the Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis and it's said that on Midsummer night, it never gets truly dark.

Medium: colored pencils and markers on colored paper