This may be the final rework on the Sea Monster. Started work on this a couple of years ago. Finally found time to finalize an idea with this and move on. Even the bravest of sailors fears coming into contact with a playful sea monster. This little guy has the best intentions, but all his toys end up busted and laying at the bottom of the sea.
I also posted this over on Threadless. If you’d like to give this guy a vote please go here. Thanks!
The Baby Sea Monster Strikes Again!
I received a slow cooker for Christmas this year. As geeky as this sounds, it’s seriously the best gift ever. A big “thank you” to my sister for knowing just what to get me. Somehow, I really screwed up my first attempt with chili. I didn’t have a recipe to go by, so I mixed and matched a bit of this and a bit of that. Topped it off with Tabasco sauce and cheese, and voilà, I have…spaghetti sauce? Ugh, major fail. Since then I’ve improved, and tried out a pot roast and pork chops recipes. Not bad, I’m getting better.
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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
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
Illustration Friday project. The theme this week is: Fearless. I worked on this early in the week, but this has been a crazy past few days. I’ve been putting in some long hours at the day job.
As usual, I’m playing iTunes in the background as I work. One thing I realized on Monday and Tuesday was I kept listening to the same albums over and over (Julian Casablancas, Bon Iver and Beach House) . I have a part of my music library at work. About 20 GB, equals out to 10.3 days of listening time. This is only part of it. My home computer is 120 GB and over a month of non-stop listening. So I decided to set my music to “BY ALBUM” and start at the beginning. From A-Z, for the next 10 work days I’ll go through my entire at-work playlist. I started on Tuesday evening. But somehow I’m still on the A’s. I guess the Beatles “Anthology” collections took up a whole day on their own. Made my way through “Appetite for Destruction” and “Armchair Apocrypha” and some Arcade Fire today. What a weird mix this makes. Just one of the reasons that I love iTunes.
Oh yeah, so the theme is “fearless”. And I was having fun creating some underwater scenes early in the week. Last week I saw 2 things that got me thinking. Went to a preview of Iron Man 2 last Wednesday and was geeking out over one of my childhood faves. And then I saw an old scuba helmet on the show “Pawn Stars”. Combine them together for a new fearless underwater hero facing down a bloom of the deadly black jellyfish. Um… yeah… I need a name that sounds a bit more fierce.
Relaxing on a nice spring evening. Working on this week’s Illustration Friday project and listening to a ball game in the background. This week’s theme is “dip”. I already worked on the food theme 2 weeks ago with spoiled, so I avoided the chips and dip ideas. Didn’t feel like I could pull an illustration of dancing out of my head tonight. So I settled on this little sea-monster. No skinny-dipping after 2AM please.
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