IF: Spooky

This illustration is super late, and I still wish I had more time to work on it, but for once it's not because it was hard coming up with an idea, but because it was hard narrowing down my choices. Should I draw a spooky ghost? A spooky haunted house? Spooky action at a distance? It was hard to decide. Finally, I realized I should draw one of history's spookiest people: writer, poet, celebrity absinthe endorser, and international monkey detective Edgar Allan Poe.

IF: Old-fashioned

Speaking of birthdays, here is a quick self-portrait for this week's Illustration Friday topic, which is "Old-fashioned." Dang, Illustration Friday, that was cold. You didn't have to rub it in!

IF: Immovable

For Illustration Friday. Sometimes a creative block can be as immovable as a real one.

UPDATE: Edited to more accurately reflect my own personal creative block:

IF: Caged

Hi Illustration Friday, just a little drawing of a shark cage in honor of Shark Week.

IF: Ripple

Hi everyone! Been a while. This week's Illustration Friday topic is a special one, the theme is "ripple" and it being tied in to a fundraiser started by illustrator Kelly Light to help with the Gulf Spill. Participants are donating sketchcards which you can purchase by giving $10 to the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies or the International Bird Research Rescue Center.

More information and all the other cards are available here.

Here are mine - I got pretty depressed drawing oil-soaked birds and turtles, so I tried some more inspiring images, which somehow turned into a series of propaganda posters for birds:

The Valhaltese Falcon

I think I heard that Viking Detectives was going to be the next zombies or vampires or vampires that were bitten by steampunk werewolves so they turn into zombie vampires or whatever, so I thought I'd jump on that bandwagon while I still had the chance.


(Update: Hi Illustration Friday! I figured this fit the week's theme of "detective" pretty well.)