'BATH TUB'

AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE

I don't think I could become an animator.

But I really like to dip into blogs about

character design

and look at digital projects from

animators here and in Europe.

 It would be satisfying to design a character

based on this big genie cooling off in an

asian lagoon.

He started off as three shapes: the big kidney form

of his body and arms, the knee and the head. Corel Painter.

Toni Reyna , Gillian Reid,

Michael Robertson and Rad Sechrist

post most regularly as animators and instructors.

Nathan Fowkes gives characters

worlds to inhabit. Click on the names to

visit their blogs.

Check out the sites I follow to see more.

JINN (under the INFLUENCE?)

THIS CONTENT GENIE

looks like he's stuck in

a Tanqueray bottle

or

a bottle of

Bombay Saphire.

Illustration Friday's word is 'influence.'

It's a painting with

an interesting texture.

The background is alkyd oil.

I pressed a hard pencil onto the dry surface

to draw the genie (jinn) and

describe the bottle's shape.

The I masked off the simple shape

and rubbed oil pastel over 

the depressed design.

THEN

gouache is flowed into the

drawing's grooves.

after fixing I

give him an exotic locale 

with a

23 carat gold minaret/parrapet

combo.

Here's a close-up of

black and orange and white gouache

on the oil pastel surface.

all on rag board.

8.5 X 10.5 inches.

''THREE WISHES'

'THREE WISHES'

is a mixed medium painting

with a collage border.

I like to paint pattern repeat that 

LOOKS like block printing but isn't.

I like the way the genie's lamp's handle

sort of repeats the paisley designs.

A little gold scroll in the center.

And more curvy lines in a typographical border

which I took from the key caps on my Mac.

I typed them out in a larger font size

and printed them on vellum.

Then a whitewash of acrylic before

gluing them around the painting.