Illustration Friday

         This week's Illustration Friday word is mythology. Here is a work done in notan. Notan (or nōtan, 濃淡) is a Japanese design concept using the illusion and placement of dark and light elements as they relate to one another in a composition in imagery. Nōtan is often presented in ink, paint, or cut paper, but it is recognizable in a number of contemporary illustration techniques. This work in particular is cut paper. The subject is Icarus, the man of Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun with the wings his father had made for him.

Descent of Icarus

Illustration Friday

     This week on Illustration Friday the word 'guitar' was posted. This character's might be 'Hangnail' from the 'Toejam Group'.  He was going to get some color, but time constraints are always a challenge. Maybe a color version will be shown in a later post as well as the rest of his assemble and groupies.

 

 

 

Flyboy of Sky World

     Here are some concepts, old and new, of a world in the clouds. The characters of this story might be messengers or a sort of 'eye in the sky' for their cause. Da Vinci's helicopter and ornithopter were definitely inspirations for these concepts.

Illustration Friday

     This is an Illustration Friday post for the word 'map'. More time might have been put into it, but work, taking down the Christmas decorations, and my daughter are all competing. Those things are a little more important (except the Christmas decorations). Despite everything in this image being slammed together, a lot of work went into a few different concepts. More on that in a later post. Thanks to my wife for all the constructive criticism.