illustration friday ... voice

just a rough sketch this week... the word was "voice".



illustration friday ... prehistoric

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That lucky rabit's foot must have worked.  On her very first excavation escursion, Lena discovered a prehistoric dinosaur egg - a remarkable find for even a lifelong archaeologist!



illustration friday ... exotic

illustration friday submission ... tail

I drew this for my Illustration Friday submission this week.  The word to illustrate is "tail".  Hmmm, not sure that feathers would be considered tails, but it's the idea that popped in my head so I went with it!

illustration friday submission ... secret

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illustration friday ... creature

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Here is one of my newest drawings.  The Illustration Friday word this week is "creature" so this is what I came up with.  Such an appropriate word with Halloween just days away now.  So, happy (almost) Halloween!

illustration friday ... tall

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"ride tall"

illustration friday ... teacher



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this is a lesson that teachers should really be teaching in school - learning to not do this on an elevator will be more commonly used than finding the diameter of a circle or the value of "x" in an equation.  just saying.

illustration friday ... freeze

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the word this week on illustration friday was "freeze".  it made me think of a cold, snowy night in the city.  instead of my usual micron pens, i decided to go old school and use an old trusty bic pen. 

illustration friday ... bounce

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b o u n c e

illustration friday ... lonely

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lonliness is can be such an overpowering thing.  it can take you miles away from where you should be and leave you with so much emptiness that you could just float off into nothingness, while filling you with such a heavy sadness that you could be jolted right back down again without warning- a tug of war between emptiness and sadness that seems to never end.

illustration friday ... carry

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"i carry a heavy heart"

illustration friday ... suspend

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"...everyone held their breath, the noise in the crowd was suspended as they all looked up, up, up..."
(apologies for the image quality - had to take the picture on my phone for this one otherwise i wouldn't have gotten it submitted in time!)




here is the updated, scanned version...

illustration friday ... refresh



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illustration friday ... fluid

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"In an instant, thoughts that were fluid and tactile just moments ago had frozen in time and all but disappeared completely. Would a clear thought ever show itself again?"

illustration friday... suspense

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"Everything else faded away. All she could see were words floating above paper. Part of her wanted "soon" to never come - but the suspense would kill her if it didn't happen fast."

illustration friday...grounded

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"No matter how hard she tried, Norah just couldn't seem

to stay grounded and keep her head out of the coulds."

happy halloween!!

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after being inspired by last weeks word of the week, "spooky" (illustrationfriday.com), i drew this one too!

illustration friday...spooky

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illustration friday...beneath

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