Tying the last 2 monsters for the month into this week’s Illustration Friday theme: burning. I couldn’t decide on which to post, so I’m putting them both online. The first “little burner” is accident prone. And the second guy is a 20 foot monster. He likes to tapdance, which sort of explains the socks and shoes. There’s a better story, but I’ll save it for a future post. Now it is bed time.
"Little Burner"
"20 Foot Monster"
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
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
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
We just had a work event to raise money for our annual charity. This year’s them was “carnival”, so our group created a freakshow. The idea was to paint some really rough looking canvas posters that mimic the old freakshow posters from old time carnivals. I created some additional menu posters for customers to choose their freak from. They bought tickets, we photographed them and they chose which Freak to become when we put it all together.
I even dressed up for my role as a carney. Fresh pizza stain and all. Take a look…
Freak-a-nator Menu Poster
Illustration - Carny - Chad Albers
Illustration - Bearded Lady - Chad Albers
Illustration - Carny Cletus - Chad Albers
Chad Albers as the Bearded Lady
Striking my best carny pose.
So, I was supposed to spend Thursday night working on a friend’s wedding “save the date” cards. But when I turned on my computer I found these 3 new figs waiting for me that I’ve been working on. Trying a new style. Probably going to crank a few more out similar to these during the weekend, after the other project is done of course.
Alien with 2 arms and a tail
The Gamer
The Laughing Tiki
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