Illustration Contest: Backyard Neighbor

Friends we've got another challenge for you, a contest inspired by your backyard (or favorite park if you don't have a backyard). The contest is to come up with a mythical character or illustration of who visits your backyard when you're not there. Who plays on the swings while you're eating lunch? Who makes the lawn into a racetrack?

This contest in my mind was centered around mythical creatures but it could be animals too; you decide. Just come up with something fun and the challenge is to put it together in a fun way. Good luck everyone! Leave a comment with any questions or thoughts.

Deadline: August 11th at Midnight

Illustrator Spotlight: Kyle Lambert

I just needed to post this short clip on here. I saw Toy Story 3 a couple of weeks ago and loved the movie for various reasons that I won't get into right now. What I did want to show off was an awesome clip I found on another blog.

The short clip is from an illustrator that works out of England. This picture was done on an iPad and the video is his process of developing his picture from the initial rough sketch to the shading and detail work. I think it's an amazing display of talent and another artist to add to our list of talented reference artists. His name is Kyle Lambert and his other work is equally amazing, all of it is digital which doesn't make it right or wrong, it's just his style. Really cool, check it out if you're interested.

Change Contest Entries

This contest was centered around the various types of change that we encounter, good or bad. It can affect us in many different ways. Thank you everyone for participating and sharing your talents and ideas. Great work! Here's this contest's entries:

Kristi G. - New Shoes - "With school coming up, this topic has been on all of our minds. I love how new shoes can turn worries into confidence."

Liezl G. - Buddies - "Liezl wanted to show the physical change that happens when something frozen melts, but when she put cute faces on her popsicles, she could not bring herself to melt them."

Nate S. - Little Texter - "I wanted to show with an illustration how quickly little kids change and how baffled it leaves you sometimes to see how quickly they move ahead on you to different things. I didn't get too far along in the development but I hope you can see the general idea."

Scott W. - Tie Dye Girl - "So I saw this girl with a tie dye shirt at Wal-Mart and she looked so sad - like few people understand or appreciate her - and so interesting...I could tell she had done her makeup extra and could imagine her having the desire to be beautiful...I also thought a character who looks like her and thinks she is beautiful would be very intriguing...."

Moving! Illustration Contest

Sorry everyone for taking so long to post again. I just got back from a family trip two weeks ago, moved my family last week and started graduate school this week. I've been busy but we all are, lousy excuse. I wanted to jump on here between studying to challenge you guys out there to a contest.

Moving means change, and (setting political platitudes aside) change can be hard to deal with sometimes. Illustrate a quick picture that somehow narrates that conflict. You've got 2 weeks; deadline is:

July 21st, 2010

(Also worth note is that I don't currently have Internet activity at my house, so connection time will be slow for right now. I'll do my best though. You guys are great.)