Post Something Monday: Juan Tamad

Snap, Snap, Snap go the crabs!

For this week’s http://www.illustrationfriday.com/ theme of “snap”: this blog entry is dedicated to the popular Filipino folklore character “Juan Tamad”. His name translates in tagalog (the Filipino native language) as “Lazy John”. He was so lazy that on one hot summer day, he instructed a sack of crabs the way to his home instead of carrying them. What did he do when the crabs made their way?... take a nap under the Guava tree, of course. There is another story to that guava tree. He was so lazy that instead of picking the guava fruit from the tree, he sat and waited for them to fall. Now that is lazy! Have a good week everyone.

-Vern

Manhole

I hate cameras. I'm not very good technically. Cameras are over my head. I own a nice Canon digital. The only problem is I can hardly use the damn thing. Recently I've been photographing manhole covers. That's right sewer caps. When I got home from Prague and looked through my photos I discovered a great manhole cover i'd shot. It intrigued me. So I began shooting all the different ones around New York city. Now I do it wherever I go. I have a really cool collection. It gives me an additional thing to do on my flickr site. You can check out my collection here. If any of my readers have a digital camera and come across any manhole covers in your town or city, please photograph them and e-mail them to me. I need more. Just send them to tom@tommykane.com.

Bigfoot

Bigfoot
Originally uploaded by Trophiogrande.

My monster of the week: Bigfoot

He looks little like my father...hmmm.

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So, does this look like I deliberately skewed the proportion and perspective...or does it just look like she has really stubby legs? Either way is fine, I guess.

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I'm new!

Hi there. My name is Rebecca and I am a senior illustration student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. I'm a big fan of Sugar Frosted Goodness, so I finally got my website updated and joined all the fun here!
I used to do all my work in Adobe Illustrator, but last semester switched to working with acrylics. I'm still getting the hang of it, but I completely redid my portfolio. I'm have a lot of fun, and making a mess in the process.
My website is up and running so let me know what you think! rebeccalashock.com

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Simply a mind blowing movie...i like it a lot so did my wife...

Simplemente algo super eyecandy....WOW!....me encanto!
a la Dniz de igual modo..jejejeje!

Franken-Swag

Got in a shipment of my t-shirts from Gasoline Gallery today. Thanks to Mark and the gang for diggin' my Frankie design enough to pop him on a shirt!

Now, go and buy a bunch!

Gasoline Gallery

Create or Die!

'Latin for: Create or Die'

In June I'll be attending the HOW Design Conference in Atlanta. While there I'll also be doing a book signing for my soon to be published 'Crumble. Crackle. Burn'. I wanted to have a cool freebie give away I could hand out to those who purchase my book so I created this sticker design.

If you'd like one of these stickers for FREE just mail me a self addressed stamped envelope to:

Gimme a Sticker!
Glitschka Studios
1976 Fitzpatrick Ave SE
Salem, OR 97306

And Another....

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Spring Chick

All the warm weather brought this lil' fella out of hiding... finally.

Mmmmmm. Pie.

A quick piece I did for another art director. He needed it to put together a comp for an ad concept.

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-PotatoMammaDesign

SFG: The 1950s "Archie Comics"

Always been a fan of Archie Comics back in the 80's and I'm sure it was pretty popular back in the 50s as well...

Pieces of my sketchbook

More is on my blog

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Honeymooners

I said I'd wind up doing multiple entries for the "SFG Challenge: The 1950's" (scroll down to see my first), and here's number two: Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton from TV's "The Honeymooners."



--Pat Lewis

Push Yourself

There are so many days I have to literally force myself to draw. Day in and day out it is exhausting. Coming up with new ideas at work and new ideas to draw in my books is very taxing. These two drawings are good examples of forcing myself to do things I really didn't want to. When I started the drawing of the woman, I hated it. Her face looked ugly. I just couldn't get it right. That is why I drew the hair so elaborately, it was in order to hide my lousy sketch as best I could. In the end it was the hair idea that saved it. If I didn't screw up her face right away, then the drawing would have been a completely different idea. I should emphasize that I have no preconceived notion of what my drawings will look like. I don't think, I just start sketching and see what develops as I go. The drawing of the booze bottle happened because I was at my in-law's house with nothing to draw. So I searched and found something weird to doodle. So when you see all the drawings on my blog, don't think it comes easy. It's hard and a pain in the ass but it is also very rewarding for the soul.

The "Fish King"

Quickie pen and ink drawing that popped into my head after watching a documentary on Robin Williams...

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1950's Sci Fi...

I love the old corny Sci Fi from the 50's and this is my tribute!

Website Refresh

Just finished refreshing my site with new illustrations, go have a look
www.onnoknuvers.com

Thanks
Onno