Royal Flush

When someone asks me to "draw me!" or says "ooo I want one too!" I usually get a pang of worry where my sincere gratitude and flattery is supposed to be. Why? Because I know already from the second they ask me that I am most likely not going to do that for them.

It's not that I wouldn't love to, I just don't have enough time as it is do to all the things I like to do, especially when I know that they will want me to do it for free because we're pals and all. So what do I do? I don't make promises, that's for sure. I tell them the drawing has to come to me if I'm going to do one for someone else that's just a random sketch, and here is an example. 

About a month ago I was at a party at my friend's parents' house. In her bathroom, I saw little illustrations of a small child/toddler sitting on a toilet. After leaving the bathroom I said "I hope someday someone will want to buy my illustrations just so they can hang them in their bathroom." and she told me if I drew her a picture, she'd hang it in her bathroom.

And so I did. Besides...she invited me to a get-together for her birthday last weekend and I had to blow it off because I live an hour away and went to a concert that I had already bought tickets for prior to my invitation. 

Birthday Cards

I really should start working on my illustration for Illustration Friday...

Zumba today. Boom.

Here is the front and inside of a quick card I made for my dad's birthday:

 

Summer?

Theories suggest that because we basically skipped over the entire season of Winter this year, we might also skip over Spring (or should I say spring over Spring), directly into Summer weather.

Um..hell yes? Please? Springs in WNY are awful. You might get one day that's in the 50's but then 2 days later it's snowing again. So far, we're off to a good start with record-breaking temperatures, including two days this week that are calling for temps in the mid 70's. Ridonk.

I have two illustrations to do this week, not sure if I'll finish both. I'm working on a birthday card for my dad and as of right now I'm putting that at the top of my list of important arty things to do.

Moving on, here's another comic. Will post the illustrations I've been working on when they're complete.

Happy Friday!

This week's Illustration Friday topic is "Intention". I'm going to have to think about that one. In fact, I intend to think about it.

Tomorrow I'm going to my grandma's house to celebrate her birthday. I'm not sure how old she's turning, probably 78. If you ask her she'll tell you she's turning 50, so you never really know. I drew her a card with a cupcake on the front. Calling people "Cupcake" and "Martha" is one of her things, so on the inside of the card it says "Happy Birthday, Cupcake." I'm probably going to slap my logo on the back of a bunch of cards to see how they sell in my local office supplies store.

Here's the original drawing that was put on the front of the card. Obviously I just used the finished cupcake on the right-hand side, but I thought it'd be neat to show a before and after type view:

Drawn in Photoshop with a wacom intuos4