My first time participating in Illustration Friday!
Pencil drawing with digital color. I decided to preserve the yellowish hue of the Moleskine paper it was drawn on.
Archive for March, 2009
Poise
Dracena Cinnabaris
I burned the crap out of my thumb tonight. I was taking a nearly 4lb steak (to feed two mans with leftovers) out of the broiler (around 500 degrees) and there happened to be a thin spot on the thumb of the pot holder. It went from too hot to cooking in a few seconds. But I didn’t drop the pan and steak, I carefully put it back in the oven while my thumb continued to sear. It didn’t really cross my mind at the time, but dropping the very large broiler pan that was very full of very hot oil and fat from the steak probably would have been worse than just a singed thumb.
I spent the rest of the night just using my left hand while keeping my thumb in a cup of ice water. It still hurts a bit now, several hours later, so I have it wrapped in honey and gauze.
I think I iced it soon and long enough that it won’t blister or anything, it just still feels like it’s burning. And I have to deal with this mass of gauze around my thumb.
I can still draw.
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The Burning Tree
Interior illustration for the forthcoming novel Angels of the Deep by Kirby Crow.
Media: Digital, photoshop 7
I was trying a new trick for this one…my usual style is flowery and pretty and didn’t lend itself well to a picture that is supposed to be menacing and evil-looking. So I drew on some influence from artwork by Alvin Schwartz, who illustrated the infamous Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series.