Catching up

Good day all. I've been playing catchup lately and I just wanted to share with you some of the illustrations and other projects that have been occupying my time. Or what time I've been able to squeeze from the gymnastic/karate schedule.

I'm going to start with an illustration I had in the back of my head for our first Illustration Friday word "grounded." Having children and the constant influence of cartoons, books and toys. Any parent out there knows what I'm talking about. Back to the illustration, grounded can mean many things but two that stuck out to me was a plane being grounded (not aloud to take off) and a child being grounded for misbehaving. So I thought it would make for a humorous scene if Darth Vader was grounding Luke Skywalker from flying his X-wing.

For this illustration I decided I wanted to finish with ink so I started my basic shapes with a non-photo blue pencil.




From here I continued in the non-photo pencil to fill in my rough lines.




Once I had my rough lines in started to fill in with black ink. Once the black ink was complete I felt the illustration needed something to make it pop so I added some red ink to the X-wing in the background. I also put Leah in the illustration to hint that it was she who got Luke in trouble.