Insomnia

Entangled with each other so, unsleeping one,
together we will outsleep the night.

– Galway Kinnell

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Illustration Friday – Confined
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Sleeps With Stars

 

In that place between dreaming and waking, everything is a blur.

Illustration Friday – Blur
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Hope

One day he’ll be in the sky again.

Illustration Friday – Flying

Secrets

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Illustration Friday – Patterns
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.Though she wouldn’t speak, her thoughts formed patterns on everything around her.
.It was a secret no longer.
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Part of a series of illustrations.
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They say sadness is contagious

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Illustration Friday – Contagious

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Geisha

Oh these little earthquakes

Here we go again

– Tori Amos

Illustration Friday – Poise

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Nostalgia

Sometimes she liked to pretend that she was a young girl again and everything was new.
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Illustration Friday – Pretend
Inspire Me Thursday – Coffee Break

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Constellation

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With a palm full of stars
I throw them like dice repeatedly
On the table repeatedly, repeatedly
Until the desired constellation appears
How am I going to make it right?
How am I going to make it right?

– Bjork

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Illustration Friday – Strings

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Dance

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It was a slow and haunting dance of remembering
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.Illustration Friday – Packed
Inspire Me Thursday

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Last Glance

These are unfinished paintings inspired by the book Life of Pi – about a boy who, after a shipwreck,
finds himself adrift in the Pacific ocean with an orangutan, a dying zebra, a hyena and a Bengal tiger.
One of the parts I remember vividly is near the end of the story, when only the boy and the tiger are
left and they finally reach an island. The tiger leaps out of the boat and pauses and the boy thinks it
would stop and look at him for the last time but it doesn’t. It bounds into the jungle and disappears
from his life forever.
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Sometimes I wish the tiger and the boy had one last farewell glance, a sort of acknowledgment
of their many months in the boat together, lost at sea.
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Illustration Friday – Island

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Say Anything

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Illustration Friday – Clutter
Unspoken words

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Gone

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She made up her mind about her future on that long walk home.

When she arrived she went through all of her things and threw them out,

erasing herself quietly behind closed doors…

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I guess we’ll never know what she was thinking.

It’s just as well.

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– Rodrigo Garcia

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Illustration Friday – Detaching herself from her old life

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Dream

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When the lights go out, the sea would rise at the foot of her bed, like magic.
The four winds would guide ships to faraway lands and the stars would gather around her,
whispering their secrets.
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Illustration Friday – Poof!
Inspire Me Thursday – Shrink

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Factory

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My friend has a recurring nightmare where he finds himself in a world
where people are manufactured in factories and packed in tin cans.
I shudder to think of such a world.

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Illustration Friday – Canned

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Everything is fading

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“…but I will always remember the day that I met her.”
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.... .Illustration Friday – Foggy
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Chocolate Nostalgia

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The Chocolate Nostalgia site is finally up! It was changed from its original full flash version with animated stars, clouds, underwater creatures (and a flying Mark and Johanna perched on clouds hehe) to this simpler HTML version with only the waves bobbing up and down. We still have some things to fix but you may already check it out HERE.
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Website by Happy Garaje.
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Appearances can be deceiving

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Illustration Friday – Fierce

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Expectation

A hoard of secret faces.
Illustration Friday – Hoard
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It could be sweet…

…like a long forgotten dream
. – Portishead

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I saw this boy sitting quietly, blowing bubbles in a busy street amidst the noise and confusion of a festival.
It was like a scene from a dream long ago, almost forgotten, buried underneath memories of growing up.

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Illustration Friday – Forgotten

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Water Baby

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Illustration Friday – Baby
Inspire Me Thursday – Orange
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Someday

We’re all falling. This hand here is falling.
And look at the other one. It’s in them all.

And yet there is someone, whose hands,
infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

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Sour times.

For golliwog.
Things will get better.

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llustration Friday – Sour
Inspire Me Thursday – Healing

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Last Wish

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Inspire Me Thursday – Crayons
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When I saw this week’s Inspire Me Thursday prompt I couldn’t help smiling. I had a lot of happy memories with crayons when I was little. I dug up my old grade school crayons and brought them to the studio. There were many broken pieces and a lot of colors were missing but some old favorites were still there – salmon, periwinkle, goldenrod and bittersweet.  I felt like a kid again 🙂

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paint and crayons on paper

Half-formed Thoughts

Illustration Friday – Electricity

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Strange Things

He often wondered where the strange things came from
And in his heart, the longing to see what it was like across the ocean grew
– if they sang when the moon was full, if they danced when it rained,
if there was anybody there who was just like him.

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Illustration Friday
Seed – that from which anything springs

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If I were a king

If I were a king
If I had everything
If I had you and I could give you your dreams
If I were giant-sized, on top of it all
Then tell me what in the world would I go on for
If I had it all

– Dave Matthews Band
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llustration Friday – Wide
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Waiting and Fading

And I’m waiting
with the sound turned off
I’m waiting
Like a glass balloon
And I’m fading
Into the void
And then I’m gone
I’m gone, I’m gone…

– Marilyn Manson
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Illustration Friday – Wrinkles
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Also on our other blog drawingsongs
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Radiohead Storyboard

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These are some of the scenes from the storyboard that illustrator/animator Mark Deutsch and I have been working on the last few days for the Aniboom Radiohead contest.
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Radiohead is one of our all-time favorite bands (we’ve liked them since their Pablo Honey days when we were still in grade school 🙂 hehe) so we really wanted be part of this. We chose the song Nude from their latest album In Rainbows. What we submitted isn’t the final artwork and animation yet, only the draft storyboard. It’s a mix of pencil sketches, acrylic drawings and washes and digital art and was animated using Adobe Flash and Premiere. In the final animation, the artwork will be better hehe and it will be fully animated and the descriptions, of course, will be removed.
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The submission is a bit late 😦 but, as they say, better late than never 🙂 and we had a lot of fun making it. You can view the video at the Aniboom website: http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=199391
If you like it we’d be very happy to get your votes 🙂
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Illustration Friday – Save
Sometimes you have to save yourself by letting go of things that aren’t meant to be.

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October

She always came at dusk, the girl with the hundred birds.
And when she sang, they all remembered the secret dreams that they thought they had forgotten.
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.Illustration Friday – Memories
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Forgetting

Only half of her was in this world while the other was already foreign to her.
– Albert Camus
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Tree Series
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East Wind, West Wind

“Wisdom sails with wind and time.”
– John Florio

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Inspire Me Thursday – Two

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