IF: Poise - Adelia

It's been forever since I've posted a new image - I've been so busy with a couple of projects. It's been horrible. But I wanted to create something for today's illustration friday...and when i thought of poise, I immediately thought of a tight rope walker...and there's no better daredevil than my Adelia character. That's not true, but I still wanted to do something with this character...

Now this was a really rough drawing that I quickly cleaned up - I like it, but wanted to know what you all thought. And I'm not so concerned with color right now, but composition...does it work?

Adelia Holds Out...

So I finished with the color.  I originally drew it to have the color taper out on the edges...but even though I like the look of that on other people's drawings, I couldn't bring myself to do it - so I extended the ground hill and made it a full page image.  I'm posting it here because I really like this piece - and even though it originally was going to just be a quicky drawing for IF, I took it a lot further than I originally expected...and I'd like to know if anyone has any suggestions.

The tiny conference is on the 7th, so I'm hoping to get many a new piece in my portfolio.  And I gotsta spruce up the old ones a bit.  What sucks is that I was originally doing Adelia in a completely different style of painting (using the grass brush in photoshop)...which made for quite a nice texture (in my opinion) but I've moved away from that and am painting her normal (with regular brushes at lower opacity)...anyway - that has nothing to do with this, so whatever.

Oh - and one last thing - should I do a frame around it?  Or should I just leave it as is...?  I'm leaning towards a black line framing, but that's just because that's what I do with almost all of my pictures...

Adelia Holds out...

Hello - so I did a sketch of this for illustration friday - and I rather liked it...enough to clean it up and revise it and such.  I wanted to post it here to see if anyone had any suggestions for it before I went and colored it.  Well, hmmm?

conference business cards...

taking myself serious? It's a weird thought...but here goes. I'm actually going to attend a conference! Sure it's not the big NYC one next weekend (anyone going to that?), but a smaller one day conference in San Diego. I'm working on my port and promotional stuff, but I felt like i needed some sort of business card...just in case.

here are a couple of prototypes - I wonder what you'll think...maybe you can comment? I'm probably going to have them printed up this week (the conference is on Feb. 7th).


would you even include one image? I mean, if it's a great one then terrific - but way back in school I think I remember someone saying something about how if you put that you're this or that or include a picture that they'll maybe only think you can do that one thing...? I'm obviously keeping my cards very simple...I was thinking of putting an image in full color on the back and then my info on the front...and it's not that much more expensive...

Adelia: left out...

So - I wanted to show this one...it's a companion piece to the other one I recently posted (but that one is still being revised)  I wanted to get your views on the composition...and if it's working or not...?  I wanted to do another drawing with all the characters from the previous illustration.

My first Illustration Board post - Adelia and friends...

Hey there folks. This is a piece I finished about a week ago. I had very high hopes for it:

And I'd have to say that I'm disapointed with it. But I'm not sure why! I wanted it to be a piece that introduced the little pillow looking characters (that's what my wife calls them). On my blog I posted each element individually - which I liked, but all together, they just don't cut it. I tried adding more blue shaddow to the snowy ground, but...? I don't know.

The linework was done in Illustrator and then copied over as a vector smart image and colored in photoshop. Also - Adelia (the blue penguin character) usually doesn't have eyebrows, so when I rework this piece, that'll be the first thing to go...

So I thought I'd start with my worst piece and work my way up...any advice would be greatly appreciated!