Illustration Friday -- Nature

Some bugs, some feathers, a skull, a nest, a smushed flat turtle, the usual

For the next illustration friday I brought out some of my 'nature collection' to draw from. I actually have a bit more than this but these are my favorite items. Ironically all of these I've found in urban/city locations, so I can only imagine what my collection would look like if I went treasure hunting in the woods more.

This green beetle was all in one piece when I originally found it but years of moving and being jostled around in the tin got it crushed (I took the photo by the window for better light, the metallic coloring is really cool):

Hello, world

I'm gonna start using this blog again...I know shocking. It's been a few years.

Book

"Book" for illustration friday.

Empire State Human

This was my work in progress for illustration friday's "tall", but I think I'm just gonna completely redo it (I got really over-excited by the new rapidograph pens I got, I'm just gonna redo it with collage) :/

It's also inspired by the song empire state humaaannn (tall tall tall I wanna be tall tall tall...)

Freeze for Illustration Friday

Here's my post for illustration friday's 'freeze'! I wish I had a scanner because I go crazy overboard with the color when editing a photo in Photoshop.

This is what it originally looked like:

I sewed some embroidery thread into the scarf!

I have two blogs now..

I'm gonna be posting my illustration fridays and other stuff here more often because the new ill-fri doesn't jive well with my tumblr blog. I haven't really decided if I should use one or the other more so for now I'll be using both for pretty much everything :]