Brave (Illustration Friday)

I missed Illustration Friday again! I am on a roll.

OK, so for this I learned a few things:

1. Wall paper is hard to stick to paper. 

2. Vellum buckles under glue. When I paint it, it doesn't buckle, but when I try to stick it down on gloss medium, it buckles away. 

I like the general concept of this but the flashlight isn't distinguished enough from the monster behind. I am happy though that I finally used Japanese tape. Her shirt is made of a strip of tape over the inside of an envelope.

Perspective (Illustration Friday..or not)

(Update: So. Apparently Perspective was not this week's Illustration Friday. Ha! I clearly totally made it up. Nice work. Well, here is my Kelly's Brain submission for this week. Ahem. Continue on.)

Analysis and process after the break.

Clumsy- Illustration Friday

I searched Clumsy and found a story of an art student who tripped and ripped a Picasso. You can't help but have empathy for her. Originally I was going to try and have people with Picasso-like bodies walking around on a street with a stray ear here, stray nose there, but I don't really have those drawing skills. So I started constructing bodies out of rectangles. After I placed the five people, I began laying body components elsewhere. The idea is that any of those other pieces could be rectangle people. We are all very fragile whether we are made of right edges or not.

I'd like to try this at home with acrylic paint and fabric.

Have I mentioned that I need to learn to draw? Yeeah.

Illustration Friday: Crunchy

This still isn't exactly the feel I had in my brain but I decided to get it up anyway.

Here are the changes I'd like to make:

The colors aren't quite right. She disappears into the background.

Maybe the problem is that I'm using too similar of values for the whole thing.

Second problem is scale. Something just feels off about it at this point. Like she needs to be smaller but clearer. Is that possible?

(This is for Illustration Friday)