December 19, 2009

219: I've Come Undone

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It took my friend Amy's Illustration Friday theme suggestion of undone to pop up in my email yesterday to realize a) I haven't completed an IF assignment in weeks, and b) I still have a whole wadge of incomplete MayDay illustrations from last spring that I never expounded on. Combined, this is the reason for the tubes-unclogging stream of sketchery you just scrolled through to at last reach this paragraph of explanation.

These are all unfinished (undone) works from the once-a-day creativity marathon my wife and I went through earlier this year (me, drawing; she, writing) – sketches dating from the first to final day of May. A select handful of other pieces from this adventure passed lovingly and thoughtfully through digital post-production to show up here since then (click here to see the results). But not this undone crew, who, once June arrived, did not see the light of day again – until now. The year is almost through, and, nuts to Photoshop, they need airing out.

Click on these links to see any of them larger. They are, from top to bottom: cowboy singer/troubador Pop Wagner, a vulturine guineafowl from the Assiniboine Park Zoo, my sister's dog Kayla, an unexplainable pen-and-watercolour skeletal bird of some sort, a big fat prairiedog and a toucanet (both from the zoo as well).

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8 comments:

elizabeth said...

These are beautiful. There's something appealing and even complete about their "undone"ness. It looks intentional, if that makes sense. Love the last bird drawing.

Asja said...

beautiful drawings, all of them!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful drawings. They don't look undone - I agree it looks intentional.

studio lolo said...

I'm in love with kayla and the chubby prairie dog!
Sounds like a fun challenge for you and the missus.

Sam said...

that prairie dog is great! You don't see any of that great graphic color in print anymore...

ksavage said...

Loving the pink, skeletoid like-avis. Sweet!

Jeope said...

Thanks, folks!

alex fine illustration said...

great collection of illustrations.