Cartoon of woman in backyard. She sees a periscope poking up from the lawn. She says, “Henry! Get the cat! The moles are back.”
Tag: animal cartoons
Cartoon of cat and dog on and iceberg. Dog says, “On the bright side, at least the snow has melted.”
When this week’s word, “adrift,” came up for Illustration Friday, I thought of all the snow in my backyard and my poor pets. They have had a hard time with the snow. And Indiana hasn’t gotten the kind of snow that has assaulted the east coast. We’ve had only a small taste of Snowmageddon.
I drew this in Adobe Illustrator CS2
CNN is reporting Punxsutawney Phi has seen his shadow once again . The oversized rodent says there are six more weeks of winter in these United States. The weatherman keeps threatening more snow in Indiana, so Phil must be right.
My heart was broken. Yet, I had enough strength to spread the news the low tech drawing way, via a chalk interface device. Thanks to cameras, I can spread it high-tech too.
Whenever something catches my attention, or just bugs me, I have to let it out somehow. Drawing or doodling is the best way for me. I might as well get some creative mileage out of it.
I’m thankful for some new chalkboard paint at work. It’s a great new outlet that doesn’t involve pixels or bezier curves. It’s okay to be low tech once in a while.
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illustration Friday-Focused
Here is my digital illustration for this week’s topic on Illustration Friday. This week’s word is “focused.”
When they announced the word, I immediately thought of a camera. After all, I’ve been having all sorts of fun with a point and shoot camera. But the thought soon left me, so obviously, that didn’t have much of an impact on me. If I didn’t care all that much, I didn’t expect anyone else to care either.
When I went back to the sketch, the word, “cheese” stood out. Why do we say cheese when we pose for a camera anyway? Wait, a minute… cheese? What animal is the most focused? I thought of my cat. That critter can get focused on anything that moves. Cats… cheese… mice…. I wondered what connection could be there.
Here were the sketches I made as I was thinking and doodling. As I was thinking of a mouse, I thought how focused one feels if they get the feeling they are being watched.
I took my illustration into Adobe Illustrator. I started drawing the mouse.
I begin drawing by using the pen tool. It takes a little while to get used to, but you can’t beat the accuracy and the flexibility once you master it. The pen tool allows you to draw with a mouse or a digital tablet equally well. When I finished the drawing, I took it into Live Paint, eliminated the unneeded strokes and started filling in areas with color.
Next, I began drawing the cat. I put each character on a different layer so I could move them around and apply different effects to each.
I put the eyes and whiskers of the cat on different layers to I could apply a glow to the eyes, and a faded effect for the whiskers. Next, I added a layer of dark color just above the cat layer. This helped everything pop a little more and give a little mystery to the cat.
I drew this all in Adobe Illustrator.
This is my sketch for Illustration Friday. This week’s word is “;wilderness” Whenever I think of wilderness, I envision the old Hanna Barbera, Yogi Bear cartoons. As a kid, I thought everyone was mean because they wouldn’t feed the bears. This is how I would have liked those cartoons to turn out.
My idealism changed when we went on a vacation to the Smoky Mountains and I saw a bear charge a tourist. That settles it. It’s not a good idea to feed the bears.
I drew this in Adobe Photoshop