The illustrationfriday.com word this week is another abstract one. The word is “theory”. “Anne Elk’s Theory on Brontosauruses” is a sketch from an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. This skit features Graham Chapman as a television interviewer and John Cleese in preposterous drag as the palaeontologist, Anne Elk. The plot of the skit is …
The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “joy”. This is the second of two illustrations for the topic. With his calm, patient nature, Bob Ross came to prominence as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a long-running instructional program braodcast on public television. The show continues in reruns, even after Ross’s …
The challenge word on sugarfrostedgoodness.com this week is “joy”. This is the first of two illustrations for the topic. Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Greater Manchester. The band consisted of Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences, …
The Monday Artday challenge this week is “favorite book”. I actually did an illustration for my favorite book a while ago. My favorite book is “The Emperors of Chocolate” by Joel Glenn Brenner. The illustration I did was for the word “chocolate”. For this challenge, I chose a book that is easily the most affecting …
The Illustration Friday challenge for this week is “choose“. What’s it gonna be boy? Come on. I can wait all night What’s it gonna be boy – yes or no? What’s it gonna be boy – yes or no?
This week’s Monday Artday challenge is an unusual one ― “half beast“. Somewhere between Bigfoot and werewolves is the legend of the wendigo. The wendigo is a figure appearing in Algonquian Indian mythology. In remote forest areas, sometimes groups of travellers, hunters or campers were cut off from the rest of their party by the …
The weekly challenge from Illustration Friday is “blanket“. It Happened One Night is a 1934 romantic comedy, directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father’s thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter. It is one of the most beloved comedies of all time (It …
The sugarfrostedgoodness.com weekly challenge is “round“. What happened on the sunny afternoon of November 13, 1982, would change the lives of Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini and Duk Koo Kim and the future of boxing. By the time it was over, Kim lay in a coma from which he would never awaken, dying five days later …
This week’s challenge at Monday Artday is “hidden message“. Harry Houdini, in addition to being one of the world’s greatest magicians, spent a portion of his life exposing fraudulent psychics and bogus clairvoyants. Houdini showed that psychics were using tricks that he, himself, used in his magic act. This practice eventually broke up his friendship …
The challenge on Illustration Friday this week is “tales and legends“. This is my second entry for this challenge. My first one can be seen HERE. The legend of Pecos Bill grew out of the imagination of southwestern range hands who told tall tales to pass the time. The story goes that Pecos Bill, the …
