Tag Archives: Illustration Friday

Dusty – the cute t-rex – for Illustration Friday

I decided to do a real quick illustration for the art challenge site this week, little more than a doodle really. But despite that, I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out. As usual I first opened MyPaint to scribble out an initial idea for the illustration, because MyPaint lets me feel free. It’s [...]

Winter wonderland digital painting

In response to the Illustration Friday art challenge this week I have done a nice little digital painting using MyPaint. I am as always having a lot of fun using MyPaint, and I still find it hard to believe that such a powerful piece of software is available for free. Today I used the tree [...]

A phenomenon is an extraordinary event – game illustration

Another hour’s work brings a lot more definition to the image. The brave adventurer is starting to get some nice sharp outlines to his space suit. The colours have become darker and more muted too, just the way I like them. Building on the very rough shapes of the previous image, this digital painting is [...]

Prehistoric monster for Illustration Friday

I love painting prehistoric monsters, and I love my new app – MyPaint. In fact I did a couple of dinosaur illustrations as part of my portfolio to get on to a graphic design course. I also did some giant robot paintings and other assorted game and sci-fi movie related images. Of course because I [...]

Illustration Friday, GURPS Spaceship

It’s a long time since I did a digital painting for Illustration Friday, but today I got back into the swing of it. I’ve been playing with my Bamboo Graphics Tablet over the last few days, and it’s a lot of fun. I’ve found a way of making marks with the stylus that look a [...]

Computer graphics painting, elephant, done with GIMP

It’s Friday, and you should probably know the procedure by now. Every Friday I visit a site called Illustration Friday which provides a showcase for the work of artists from around the world. Every Friday they post a word which is to be used as inspiration for a piece of illustrative art work. Once I’ve [...]

Vampire Cat illustration, with GIMP step-by-step tutorial

Although I am far from finished with my troublesome Pixie Catcher fantasy illustration, I’m going to put it on hold for a day because it is Illustration Friday time again. As regular readers of this blog will know – and yes this blog does seem to have regular readers – Illustration Friday is what is [...]

Brave, a digital painting for Illustration Friday

OK, it was only last week that I was saying that all my future pictures for Illustration Friday would be exclusively spaceship based. It turns out that I couldn’t keep it up for even a month. This weeks illustration, or the beginnings of it is a strange Victorian fantasy. My graphics tablet is working again [...]

Shark-like spaceship design with exaggerated perspective

From now on I’m going to be coming at all my sketching from a spaceship or science fiction point of view, because it seems to be what the vast majority of visitors to this site want. Every week I’ve been producing sketches for an art challenge called Illustration Friday, and these sketches are going to [...]

Pioneer Spaceship for Illustration Friday

I was very pleased to see that this week’s word on Illustration Friday is Pioneer. I draw a lot of spaceships with GIMP, and design a lot of 3D spaceships too, with Blender, and pioneering is one of the coolest tasks a spaceship can be put to – to boldly go and all that. For [...]