Cultivate

Illustration Friday – Cultivate

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To mark the start (officially on Sunday) of British summertime an illustration of one early worm who forgot to put his clock forward at the weekend, thus handing back the initiative to early bird, who remembered. In concert with the theme the worm is a natural cultivator who is friend of the gardener and obviously early birds everywhere. Convoluted? Of course! Spring forward!!

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Savour

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Saw Mr Ramsay’s latest festive offering at a bookshop the other day. Christmas with Gordon, as the man himself might say – I don’t f**kn’ think so! Anyway my alternative take on subject matter. “You will f word eat those brussels sprouts.”This turkey’s drier than the dogs dangly bits!“  Rudolph wouldn’t be hanging around the roof of that house on Christmas Eve!  In saying that might make for a more a more interesting read. Pass the cranberry sau… er, jus, if you please (Savour the thought!). Created in Illustrator.

(Just for fun and in the best xmas tradition – can you find a hidden devil and bat and ball within the image?)

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Transportation

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Illustration Friday – Transportation

That old saying didn’t come about by accident y’know! ( … also covered by Prince in Purple Rain).

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Beneath

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When the creative juices run dry, there’s nothing quite like a rummage through the archives to find some inspiration, or even something to fit the subject matter. “Man beneath a jigsaw” was commissioned for an article on product diversity and options for an internal banking publication. You can understand the need for an illo to brighten up proceedings – That’s what I’m here for!

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Old Fashioned

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Illustration Friday – Old Fashioned

From dusty filing cabinets to platform boots to dodgy swimwear, doesn’t get much old-fashioneder than that. Although call it”retro” and suddenly it’s back in style again! Raiding the archives for this editorial illustration where the brief was to inject some humour and colour  into the dryest of subjects – pensions! (Read it and sleep!)  Originally an Illustrator 10 file, (prehistoric), but imported into funky Illustrator CS2 for some tweaks.

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Acrobat

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Illustration Friday – Acrobat

Romantic fiction set to a blossoming romance between two circus acrobats. Boy meets girl, boy drops girl, the end. Might need to develop the plot a little, but how hard can it be? Created entirely in Adobe Illustrator using some tools and techniques I didn’t know existed. What starburst filter?

Also entered in this month’s creativematch flair competition. Click here to check it out.

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Proverb

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Illustration Friday -Proverb

A rolling stone gathers no moss -  but occassionaly coconuts! This illustration refers to when the Rolling Stones were forced to postpone their tour after their legendary guitarist injured himself falling from a coconut tree in Fiji in May 2006. Ironically the postponed gigs were part of The Bigger Bang Tour! A message posted on his website later declared “Hey, everything is cool, my guitar is tuned, I’m ready to go.”

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Illustration Friday – Fearless

Fearless – The All Blacks sprung to mind for this week’s topic , and seemed completely irrelevant, what with the FIFA World Cup only a couple of weeks away!

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Now playing: Eric Clapton – Can’t Find My Way Home
via FoxyTunes

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Illustration Friday – Linked

Linked – from last week’s post, (see what I did there!). The launch this week of the Conservative Party Manifesto where  Joe Public were invited to join the government! Count me in – do you know the expenses these guys are on?

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Illustration Friday – Dip

Dip -  Election Special! The dip here is not referring to the Prime Minister, (a man of high intellect (and Raith Rovers supporter!)), but rather the dips, twists and turns that we, the voting public, can expect over the coming weeks as the  rollercoaster that is the general election campaign gains momentum. Lucky us!

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