The prompt for the CBIG blog this month is, “Earth,” and the prompt this week for Illustration Friday is, “Journey.” After the fun I had last week putting Frankenmoo in a bottle,
I decided to create* another picture of him that would work with both
of these prompts. I had tons of ideas, but decided to go with this one:
This image idea came from thinking about two really great titles: 1.
Stop The World, I Want To Get Off (a play that I saw as a kid) 2. Around
The World In Eighty Days (saw the movie when I was a kid and always
loved the idea of sailing around the world in a balloon). I combined the
two titles to show Franken Moo leaving the earth in a spaceship.
Some of the inspiration for the spaceship design comes from looking
at steampunk flying machines (which are really cool looking). Some of
them have wings, which I added to the spaceship. Some of them also have
hot air balloon type things attached to the top of the flying machines.
This spaceship originally had a hot air balloon looking object on top,
helping it to fly, but it didn’t look right. I erased the balloon before
erasing the strings. I liked having the strings there, but without
anything on top, it looked a little weird … so I made them into
antennas!
Now it looks like the spaceship is alive. That wasn’t my original
plan, but I like it! Happy accidents in art are excellent, even if you
can’t plan for them.
* Created by painting the black outline in ink and coloring digitally.
p.s. Happy Earth Day!
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Friday, April 22, 2011
If Frankenstein was a cow in a steampunk inspired spaceship (for CBIG and IF)
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Author/illustrator Stephanie Ruble has been making art ever since she could hold a crayon, and making up stories since she learned to talk. She's currently working on new picture books, images for her portfolio, and drawing art for unusual holidays. Thanks for visiting!
Picture Book: Ewe and Aye written by Candace Ryan, Illustrated by Stephanie Ruble (now available as an ebook)
Friday, April 8, 2011
If Frankenstein was a cow stuck in a bottle (bottled for IF)
The prompt for Illustration Friday
this week is “bottled.” For some reason, I immediately thought of my
character, Frankenmoo, stuck in a bottle. I considered just drawing the
bottle around him to finish quickly, like this (original Frankenmoo /
Frankenmoo Bottled):
That wasn’t much fun or very creative though. Plus, I really wanted to paint something, so I got out my brushes and ink to make a new image* of Frankenmoo in a bottle:
I’m much happier with this image of Frankenmoo looking scared and smooshed in his bottle.
Which version do you like better?
That wasn’t much fun or very creative though. Plus, I really wanted to paint something, so I got out my brushes and ink to make a new image* of Frankenmoo in a bottle:
I’m much happier with this image of Frankenmoo looking scared and smooshed in his bottle.
Which version do you like better?
* I drew this image freehand with a brush, painting Frankenmoo first, then painting the bottle around him. (This was my third attempt. It didn’t work to paint the bottle first and then try to fit him in it.) After the ink dried, I scanned it in and colored it digitally. I wanted to paint it with either watercolors or acrylics, but my scanner doesn’t scan these colors well and I wanted them to match the original colors.
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Author/illustrator Stephanie Ruble has been making art ever since she could hold a crayon, and making up stories since she learned to talk. She's currently working on new picture books, images for her portfolio, and drawing art for unusual holidays. Thanks for visiting!
Picture Book: Ewe and Aye written by Candace Ryan, Illustrated by Stephanie Ruble (now available as an ebook)
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