Puzzled }{ Illustration Friday

My entry for this week's Illustration Friday prompt - puzzled.

I used a sharpie and copic markers for this image.

There are a couple of things that I tried to represent with this, but I'd rather hear what you think this means.

Intention }{ Illustration Fridays

"Perhaps not the best way to check his intentions after all..." 

Poor flower... And all for naught.

watercolor and gesso

Did you ever do this as a young girl? Did it ever work out?

Launch }{ Illustration Friday

"Launch"

When I got the prompt for this week's Illustration Friday, the first thing that came to my mind was this David Bowie song. Along with it came a little soldier boy saluting the launch. Don't ask me why, but he was there.

Notice however that I made one big mistake. I didn't mean for the launch to be of a weapon as I don't like what that implies. I much prefer space adventures to wars. But the rocket looks like a weapon. And so it goes.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

Swept }{ Illustration Friday

The Illustration Friday prompt this week was "swept" and this is all I could think of. 

The husband came back for the weekend, and so tonight was the first time I sat down to draw something. 

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Asleep }{ Illustration Friday

This week's Illustration Friday prompt was "asleep."

Since this week has often found me contemplating my many moves and dislocations, I also wanted to include places where I've spent some time in this week's drawings. I would love to play a guessing game with you all - where did I find inspiration for the three drawings below? The answers are at the end.

1) A landmark asleep

markers, watercolor, and gesso

2) A volcano asleep

watercolor

3) A city asleep

colored pencil

Did you guess all of them?


Drawing A: France (do I have to say what this is? So easy!)
Drawing B: Japan (Mt Fuji, harder)
Drawing C: San Francisco (hardest in my opinion - the hills and the colorful houses are supposed to represent that city)

Soaked }{ Illustration Friday

Trying to catch up. 

This week's prompt for Illustration Friday was "soaked." It's pretty appropriate since we've had nothing but rain lately. I like rain. I like the way the earth smells after it, the cool air that lingers once it's passed, the pitter-patter sounds on the window. I even like thunderstorms, always have. It reminds me of my childhood. The city I grew up in has one of the highest incidences of lightening hits in the world. 

In any case, soaked. This isn't a very original illustration, but it's what I kept going back to. It just seemed the right thing to represent it. 

mechanical pencil on recycled paper