Illustration Friday: Mermaid

So pleased to see this weeks IF topic: Mermaid! Immediately thought of this pod I drew a few years ago. So here they are:

IF: Beard

It has been long time since I last posted for Illustration Friday (IF) and I have resolved to do it as often as I can again. So here goes the first, just in time for tomorrow's deadline.

Father and son

This is inspired by one of our family pictures. In one of those photos, I saw a tender smile on my dad as he held my gleeful brother, and I imagined a fictitious beard, grown through long years of caring for us, where lessons, gifts and love appear, always holding our attention.  

IF: Lost

She didn't know what to do... she laid down... and there she stayed.

IF: Asleep

IF: Star Gazing

And she gazed up in the skies and wished with all her might.

IF: Paisley

A few critters got into my paisley. What am I do? 

A hundred they'll tally, it'll be a zoo!

IF: Ripple

IF: Early

As a fledgling vampire, Dru can't still get the hang of her new timings.
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A quickly sketched, and color-expirimented entry for IF. 

IF: Equipment

For Muna, her hands are the only equipment she will ever need.

IF: Fearless

When I read the IF word of the week, the first thought that popped into mind was how fearless kids can be. They would run head on to big dogs, they'd climb windows without fear of falling, they'd laugh with glee as their father toss them in the air.

IF: Cocoon

Afraid of all the shadows in the forest, she wrapped herself in her sleeping bag and fell asleep.

IF: Rescue

IF: Subterranean

Hidden deep inside the cave, in the depths of the murky pool, away from envious eyes, she hides; controlling every wave, every tremor, every current. When her anger overcomes her, the earth shakes, the water bubbles and the world waits for a verdict.

IF: Propagate

IF: Clumsy

What was done was done. A tear formed in her eye, as she looked at the broken glass.

IF: Confined

My grandmother, Monica Avancena de Castro, is one strong-willed lady. She has had 8 strokes and yet you can see her strong will to live.

I was still young when she had her first stroke, half her body was paralyzed but that did not deter her. She went on and showed us all how to be a strong woman despite adversities.

For the last few years she has been confined to this wheel chair and during this last visit, she finds it harder to speak and move but her eyes are as lively and impish as ever. She'd be the first to ask if you've already eaten or how my parents, brothers and nephews are.

This is for you Lola. We love you.

*Pencil, Photoshop

IF: Crunchy

It was a crunchy sound he did not welcome at all.

Blur @ Illustration Friday

I've only done Illustration Friday once before but I really find the idea very fun. Here's how it works: once you sign up, they will email you the topic of the week and you have to draw your own interpretation.

After my initial effort (done on a different blog), I sort of got waylaid by so many other things. But. Here I am again.

So here's a quickly sketched and colored work that I made:



Wigi found his element. Head low, foot on the pedal, he sped, willing the kart with all his might.