Squeaking in before the deadline

I'm enjoying my time off from work. As for the pirate thingy, I went with something quick and sloppy. I'll do better on the next one.

William Tell

I spent my break at work creating this tribute to William Tell...
All work done in photoshop.
Enjoy,
Bob

Pirate Sketch *Updated*

I have been so bombarded with Christmas shopping, I nearly forgot about my own deadline on the "draw a pirate...IT'S ON...challenge." Feel free to post beyond any screwy deadlines I set (and then promptly forget.) Even though I did not leave myself time to do a proper sketch, I winged it with this awesome (I think) stylus drawing. This is a drawing of my all time favorite dumb pirate jokes...Here it is folks who have never heard this joke...it is time to marvel. "What are pirates two favorite letters..." R and I...Ha ha ha...I know, I warned you it was a dumb joke...

Later people,

Bob

*Updated* I did a flip on my picture and agreed it was a little extreme of a facial deformity. So here is a more Hollywood pretty pirate...Ha.

Something's fishy...

Here's my pirate entry! I made this completely in Photoshop, from sketch to colour. I first had some more pirates in the sketch, a fish and a lobster, but colouring this one took quite long and while working on it I realised it might become a bit too crowded if I added them as well.

It's the first time I've tried this "style". It looks a bit like something made in Illustrator, but I'm not very familiar with that programme. (learning to work with Illustrator is on my to do list though)

If you want to see pirates by me in another style, just hop on over to my webcomic, Willy and Evita. Somewhere last year I did a short story arc where they pretended to be pirates.

The "IT'S ON" Challenge...Draw a pirate!

This week Pirates of the Caribbean 3 came out. Even though it was not as good as the first I thought we could start our It's On challenge with the good ole' mainstay of comic, movies, and books. The Pirate challenge should land on Sept. 19 "talk like a pirate day." I'll try to remember that next year. So here it is...

It's On...Draw a pirate!

post it anytime in December!

Have a great weekend folks.

Bob

Dino Daze!

As a father of five and as a teacher of 600, it's often difficult to find time to draw. I'm an elementary art teacher so I took the time to create this poster illustration to advertise our big annual art show. If you want to see more of the art the kids did for this, take a look at our website.

Textures in drawings

I was talking to Tamara about textures, and how I don't use flat digitally populated textures. I wanted to show a hand drawn version of lots of textures and how many different ways you can color them in photoshop. This poster I did for Halloween is a great example.

New stuff tommorow...I hope...

Later,

Bob

Tamara's introduction

Hi! My name is Tamara and I'm also going to be posting illustrations and such on this blog: Washington Avenue.

I am an illustrator/biologist from the Netherlands, where we don't really have "avenues" but "straten", "boulevards" and "lanen". I started speaking English when I was 5 by watching Inspector Gadget (Go go gadget!) and according to my Australian friends I still have a vague American/Canadian accent. Drawing started around the same time and was for a time limited to bunnies and dolphins. After a while I started drawing portraits and elves and these days it's comics about little children and strange creatures.

But let's not overwhelm you with too much useless information about me. Let's talk about this little lady left to this text:

She's a pensketch of a Knar (a race born out of my own imagination) that I coloured in photoshop. I tried to apply some textures in her clothing and skin and I think it didn't turn out too bad, but any tips to get a better result are welcome!

Hippy VW van

This van is a part of a project I am working on for a person I work with. He wanted to have a VW van "peaced" out hippy style. I turned in this design for the basic van and he liked it. I told him I would do the graffiti in photoshop. I'll show you the finished one soon. I hate drawing cars, so the hardest part of this drawing was to embrace the car-ness and draw a stylized VW. I got a lot of inspiration from the Pixar movie, Cars, there is a hippy van played by George Carlin that helped. Soon this picture will be on pins and posters for the upcoming elections. The van was drawn on bristol board and inked with India ink. Then cleaned up in photoshop. Enjoy! More color work to come.

Later,
Bob

Open Art Blogs....

Welcome all! I Invited a whole bunch of artist to post on here that I enjoy talking with. I started this community to have like minded people (IE. artists) to talk about their artistic problems and techniques. also to have fun and to show off, share stories, and grow with each other. Collaborations and team ups are also a possibility I have floating around in my noggin.

The last reason I had to make a blog is for the artistic challenges. I think challenging yourself and pushing to new heights will help us all. So when we get a couple more people sign up, I will start with the first inaugural "IT'S ON! ART CHALLENGE."

Until then just post away on your art. Don't forget to introduce yourself to the group on your first post. I'm pushing for a Bi-weekly posting schedule myself. We will see how the scheduling works out.

Thanks again,

Bob

Washington Avenue Blog

This is a blog for people who want to post art of any kind. I also plan on having art challenges. Like draw a pirate week, Draw a robot week or draw a ghost week... more on this next post. If this sounds like fun get back to me.

To sign up for blogging on "Washington Avenue" just e-mail me at Boblearned@gmail.com and I will add you to the authorized authors.