13 Spooky Days – #4 and #5

Catching up on a few illustrations I struggled with over the weekend. A Swamp Creature seemed like the perfect add to the list. I sketched a few different ideas and just couldn’t find the right look until late Sunday night. So I worked on 2 different options. One looks like a creature that’s been eating way too many catfish from the swamp. The second was starting to look like a sleestak from “Land of the Lost”, so I kept tweaking him a bit until I was happy. For fun, I added a B-movie title to create a 3rd option.

"It Came From The Swamp"

"Swampy" by Chad Albers

Swamp Creature 1 - by Chad Albers

8 Dancing Tentacles

Cranking out some work before enjoying a long 4th of July weekend. The theme this week for Illustration Friday is “satellite”. I was working on this octopus for the past few days. This was started on Monday with a sketch for a charity coloring book, but I quickly turned this into my weekly project. Added some little satellites around him, bubbles in orbit, moving in a whirlpool. Here’s the sketch and the final color.

Octopus - by Chad Albers

Octopus sketch - by Chad Albers

Slick Willy

Here’s a follow-up to my post from last week’s Illustration Friday topic. I had 2 versions for this. The previous one was the happy whale in blue waters (shown below), the other is the not-s0-happy whale swimming in the dirty oil-slick waters. I updated the blue version with a new orange sky, it was a bit too monochromatic for me.

I’d like to do something with this combined image. I was so inspired by this blog, http://ripplesketches.blogspot.com/ I’m going to work on getting this listed over on their page. Maybe a series of 10 postcards or illustrations. I’ll post when something happens.

Here they are individually and also combined in a third image below.

Slick Willy

 

The Sad Adventures of Slick Willy

A Whale of a Post.

Tornadoes were rolling across the state tonight as I worked. So I may have been a bit distracted as I watched news reports, NBA finals and worked on my Illustration Friday project. The theme this week is “Ripple”. It’s been heartbreaking to watch coverage week after week of the gulf oil spill. At first I was going to make something with oil spill and sadness, but I think we’ve seen enough of that. So I went with a happier route for now. I may post the oil-spill version later this weekend. I’ll see how things go by Sunday.

WHAT A WHALE! by Chad Albers