illustration friday
Это что-то вроде сайта-флешмоба для художников. Каждую пятницу дают новую тему для рисования и в течении недели народ рисует к ней иллюстрации. Уровень совершенно разный, от совсем новичков до профи.
Знаю об этом сайте лет пять назад и примерно столько же хотела поучаствовать. Оказалось все гораздо проще, чем думала, главное не рисовать в последний момент и дать себе время на критический взгляд.
Пока не знаю, что это дает мне как художнику кроме тренировки. Но участвовать было интересно и просто.
тема прошедшей недели: Imagination
При наличии фантазии даже три кубика и шарик превращаются в удивительные вещи. Помню как-то рассказывала маме, как однажды играла с зубчиком от расчески и фантиком. Дело было в садике и не сказать, что у меня была сильная нехватка игрушек (так и хочется добавить: с тех пор я такая!))) ). Мама была под впечатлением.
Заметила, как легко в моих векторных картинках стала появляться обводка. Это так удобно! Мне очень нравится, особенно выручает, когда две детали одного цвета заходят друг на друга. Раньше мучила для этих целей градиент, либо меняла тон, либо устраивала страшную кашу из деталей в деталях доводя проработанность до маразма, а теперь можно просто очертить.
Вектору ужасно нехватает шероховатости и текстуры. Да, знаю, что можно сделать заливки, но это сильно его утяжелит. К тому же заливка не изменит границу пятна, она все равно будет гладкой. Резать самой? Заготовить «лохматые» пятна и использовать по ситуации? Будем думать.
А еще ко мне вернулись бледные цвета и даже заготовленные заранее палитры не спасают. Всего-то немножко подкручиваю настройки и через 20 минут у меня опять бледнота на листе))). Я не жалуюсь, просто смешно: мне казалось, что эта бледность от неумения работать с цветом, а оказывается, я подсознательно ее добиваюсь. Когда слежу за собой, все ярко, стоит бросить «вожжи» и привет:))
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Привет! Меня зовут Катя, я рисую всякое разное для детей: иллюстрации для книг, графику для игр, программ. Все это вы можете посмотреть на моем личном сайте get-some-art.com.
А здесь я пишу про себя и свою семью. Нас трое: я, Андрей, дочка Диана. Мы живем в Германии и с нами постоянно что-то приключается. А если не приключается само, то мы сами это организуем 🙂
Illustration friday что это
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Usually I think of an idea by Tuesday and just can’t get it done in time for Thursday night. Maybe I would do better if it was Illustration Fortnight!
Every now and then a topic on Illustration Friday is enough to get me moving as fast as possible, but the past week was ridiculously busy and a week just wasn’t enough time. I doodled the idea at work on Friday but didn’t get around to actually drawing it until Sunday, and then with two out of four evenings occupied, there wouldn’t be enough time to colour. So I took what I had, added some filters to it (ugh!) and posted away. I can’t wait to finish the actual picture. It’s really going to be nice, and have no filters!
This week’s topic is STRONG.
«The origin of the term atlas is a common source of misconception, perhaps because two different mythical figures named ‘Atlas’ are associated with mapmaking.
• King Atlas, a mythical King of Mauretania, was, according to legend, a wise philosopher, mathematician and astronomer who supposedly made the first celestial globe. It was this Atlas that Mercator was referring to when he first used the name ‘Atlas’, and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.
• However, the more widely known Atlas is a figure from Greek mythology. He is the son of the Titan Iapetus and Clymene (or Asia), and brother of Prometheus. Atlas was punished by Zeus and made to bear the weight of the heavens (the idea of Atlas carrying the Earth isn’t correct according to the original myth) on his back.»
This week’s assignment: LEGENDARY
Do you truly think I would enter any other choice?
This is probably the most involved painting I have undertaken. Click the painting to see a larger image and more detailed explanatoin. I was quite pleased to finish it today. Here’s the in-progress pictures with the original IF picture.
Wow, haven’t participated in Illustration Friday in ages. Just some random fanart inspired by this week’s prompt «balloon».
I’d love to see this group get active again ^^

This is the kind of thing that prevent us from going mad is this world.
This week’s assignment: WRINKLES
Thinking and drinking
And smoking make wrinkles
And time will never erase
Thinkers and drinkers
and smokers like Bertrand
And the wrinkles
that wrinkle his face.

I will be adding this pattern to the patterns section of my website. If you like it, please consider a little tip 🙂 You can also email me if you would like the symbol version of this pattern or a larger copy.
This week’s assignment: «THE BLUES»
LADY SINGS THE BLUES. I always have a tendency to find the smile in everyone. And certainly, Billie Holiday had a beautiful smile. And a beautiful voice. But her life was so full of the blues. 
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This week’s assignment: WEDDING
(I haven’t done one of these in a LONG time!)
so.
HOW many Weddings did Burton and Taylor have?
Illustration friday что это

“Huh?” you say, staring at me in wide-eyed perplexity, “Say what?”. “Fat”, I say, “6 more days to do ‘fat’, or at least your interpretation of fat”. You stare at me again like I had spoken in an obscure dialect of Siberian Eskimo, and I casually add: “Illustration Friday, it’s this week’s topic on Illustration Friday.”
“Don’t know about Illustration Friday?”, I say, limbering my typing knuckles in anticipatory blogger position, “Well, let me tell you.”
Illustration Friday is an idea, a word, more specifically a topic, served up once a week on the Illustration Friday website as an excuse or focal point for the creation of illustrations by hundreds of participants across the web. There is no client, no art director, no restrictive format demands or requirements for medium, size or proportions. It’s just the illustrator and the topic, dancing the dance of inspiration.
As artists, and particularly illustrators working with clients, we can easily find our joy in that dance dampened by the requirements, restrictions and editorial/art director conflicts that hang on it like a sour-mouthed, puritan chaperone. Deadlines, revisions, space restrictions, intrusive type and the stress of doing business can deflate our little balloon of joy in the act of creation in short order, and the idea of sitting down and doing an illustration simply for our own benefit, for the fun of it, seems remote.
Illustration Friday provides an excuse, a time and a topic for exercising our creative muscles in a little jaunt free of the usual restrictions. The site consists mainly of a topic, like “Fat”, Insect”, “Escape”, “Summer”, “Broken”, “Ancient” or “Lost”, and the artists who choose to participate create an illustration of their interpretation of that topic, in any size, proportion or medium, and post it to their own web site or blog. They then submit the location of that illustration to the Illustration Friday site through a simple form, and the links to the illustrations are listed on the Illustration Friday site, to be browsed through by other artists and interested art fans ’round the web.
There is a simple set of instructions on how to participate.
Everything is designed to encourage creativity, rather than suppress it. The topics themselves are usually submitted by participants, and the ones selected tend to be adjectives more often than nouns in an attempt to suggest possibilities other than the literal. “Fat”, for example doesn’t have to be obese individuals, it can be a steak dinner, a thick pencil, a large tree trunk, a thick to thin line or a caricature of Oliver Hardy, with or without his partner. Freeing your imagination is the whole point.
Illustration Friday is the inspiration of illustrator Penelope Dullaghan. Aided on the tech side by Brianna Privett, Penelope maintains the site and has just given it a major workover and expansion.
It now allows you to view the submitted illustrations by medium or by style rather than the previous simple list by number. Artists can now submit a thumbnail image, although most just use the same thumbnail to identify themselves, rather than providing a thumbnail of each work. It’s still useful for those browsing the list to pick out illustrations they’d like to check out.
The style, approach and level of artistic accomplishment can vary widely, but that’s a nice result of the process. This is a great place for fledgling artists to stretch their artistic wings, and put their work out for others to see.
When browsing, clicking on the “Link Viewer” (just under this week’s topic) allows you to see the entries in a frame next to the list of links so you don’t have to keep opening and closing windows. Very nice feature.
Illustration Friday is one of the most widely linked sites I’ve seen on art related sites and blogs. Rarely do I encounter a site with a link to lines and colors that doesn’t also have one to Illustration Friday. So maybe I’m not telling you anything new, but consider it another reminder.
Yes, I know I’m telling you about “Illustration Friday” on a Saturday. I wanted you to see the process of the topic building in its early stages but with enough entries for the new topic up for you to get a good idea of how it works. The list of links will build throughout the week.
Readers and art appreciators can check it out as new illustrations are added daily. Artists, get out your pencils, pens, chaulks, brushes, and Wacoms and see what you can do with “Fat”. You have 6 days until the next Illustration Friday topic is posted.
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Thanks Charley. I like these occasional site reviews. I’m one of the rare ones that link here but not there, mostly because I try to put some semblance of limits on my input, as it were.
Of course I know ‘about’ Illustration Friday – one sees refs and pics about the place – but I shall now actually go and have a look see at their site. Cheers!
Thanks, peacay. I know what you mean about sites that you see linked often that don’t always get checked out. Kind of like those of us who live in Philadelphia who have never visited Independence Hall. It’s always there.
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