The Illustration Friday challenge this week is “100%“. 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High was based on Cameron Crowe’s undercover exposé of high-school life. Crowe (who went on to write and direct Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, for which he won an Oscar for Best Screenplay) went back to his alma mater, infiltrating the everyday …
The challenge word this week on Illustration Friday is “soar“. Hank Soar played nine seasons for the New York Giants and caught the game-winning touchdown pass in the 1938 NFL Championship Game against the Green Bay Packers at the Polo Grounds. He coached the Providence Steamrollers in the Basketball Association of America (the forerunner to …
The challenge this week on illustrationfriday.com is “horizon“. This reminds me of a joke. (Everything reminds me of a joke.) A publishing company circulates a correction to a recently published book on skydiving. The correction says: On page 47 of our publication “How To Skydive“, in the third paragraph, the line that reads “State zip …
The challenge this week on illustrationfriday.com is “backwards“. Bizarro is an enemy, of sorts, of Superman. He made his comic book debut in 1958 in Superboy #68. The original Bizarro was created when Superman was exposed to a “duplicate ray.” Bizarro lived in “the Bizarro World,” a cubical planet called Htrae (Earth spelled backwards) which …
This week’s challenge on illustrationfriday.com is “little things“. Things don’t get much littler than this.
The word of the week on illustrationfriday.com is “excess“. Some people can’t travel lightly.
The challenge word this week on illustrationfriday.com is “the zoo“. Upon seeing the word “zoo”, my first thought was an old joke. A guy works at the circus for ten years. His job is following the elephants around, sweeping up their shit. All day, every day, for ten years, all this guy does, is sweep …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “superstition“. Stevland Hardaway Judkins (his name was later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) born prematurely in Saginaw, Michigan to Lula Mae Hardaway on May 13, 1950. It is thought that he received excessive oxygen in his incubator which led to retinopathy of prematurity, a destructive ocular disorder affecting …
The challenge word this week on illustration friday is “scale“. The Sound of Music portrayed the life of Maria Kutschera, a young woman studying in a Roman Catholic sisterhood, and her relationship with widower Georg Ritter von Trapp and as governess to his children. Details of the history of the von Trapp family were altered …
The challenge on illustrationfriday.com this week is “hats“. I really couldn’t decide on one idea, so I did two. This is the FIRST idea. Here is the second. Over-50 communities and retirement homes across the country have seen vicious gangs appear. Gangs of desperate old ladies terrorizing shopping malls and Sunday brunches everywhere. They dress …
