Illustration Friday "Idle" - Saturday = Good

Ahhhh, idleness, one of life's finest pleasures. I immediately thought of hammocks, since I've never known anything productive to happen in a hammock. Mostly I used it as a chance to mess around with shadows and shading in Illustrator. Next time I may be more ambitious and add some detail.

Header is now Bagalagalaga-tastic!

I know it's a bit of overkill for a blog with one post, but I finally figured out how to do some really basic Flash animation, so I whipped up the fancy letters of the "Bagalagalaga Logo". Of course I wanted to try actually posting it somewhere, and I had a rough time of it, my internet connection (borrowed from the city park area wireless if near an open window in our bedroom) was doing crazy crap, and the one how-to article I was relying on ironically had so much animation on the page it was freezing up Explorer every 2 minutes. Finally, I started again and found someone's blog that told me how to get it done in like 5 minutes. Thanks funonmars!

Illustration Friday - "Tango"

Found Illustration Friday the other day, and it seemed like a fun idea to help get me back into drawing again. It gives you a word that you base your illustration on for the week, and you send it in with a link. It was the first time I've tried out Adobe Illustrator and its "Livetrace" options to vectorize a sketch and color it, and the edges came out a little awkward. This week's word was "Tango", which originally didn't seem too interesting - you could draw two wierd creatures tangoing or something I guess, but I decided to go with "Beginner's Tango, Room 215, 6-7PM". The outlines were sketched and scanned, but the faces were drawn in Illustrator, making them look like they don't quite fit in.