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Let’s Learn Flash Part 1

andrea — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:47:49 +0000

My first Flash animation, with the help of some fish. Please click on the image below to open the animation in a new window.

Too Much Ice Cream Before Bed

andrea — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:24:33 +0000

She should have stopped after the third cone. Lesson learned?

Pencil on paper, then colored in Photoshop, with floral paper over her dress.

Two Birds and their Preferred Snacks

andrea — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:11:43 +0000

I went on a trip to an island. I took a plane, then a boat. I sketched indigenous life while I was there. These animals have never been photographed.

Ink on paper, colored in Photoshop, with textured papyrus-type paper and a sticker border on both.

Thanks for the franks

andrea — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:29:43 +0000

Here’s a one-sided thank you card I made. I wrote in the 2nd frame with a nice brown pen. It was awesome.

You can use it for your own thank you cards if you want! Don’t sell it on the thank-you-card black market. Everyone deserves to be thanked for something. Click to make larger, yeah.

They like each other

andrea — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:17:59 +0000

Flying side by side to a park for a picnic.

Materials: pencil on paper, then colored in Photoshop; hearts in Illustrator.

Happy Father’s Day, Dads!

andrea — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:54:16 +0000

A day late to posting, but I was a day early to giving, haha! I hope everyone had a fine Father’s Day. Here’s the card I made for my awesome dad:

Pattern & text (Adobe Garamond) done in Illustrator. Texture is from a wash I did using moist tissue paper and allowing it to get all wacky. I printed the whole shebang on cream card stock, wrote on the back, and stuck it in a yellow envelope. I like that it turned out to be a little bit disorienting, similar to that classic optical illusion. Scintillating!

Not a germ-free adolescent.

andrea — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:39:24 +0000

A feverish, sick boy ruminates ruefully on the dirty, germy bus that foisted this terrible illness upon him. Inspired by this ask.metafilter question.

Pencil on paper. Photoshop: color, textured paper. Background wave is from a linocut print I did last year.

Oldies But Goodies 4: Goodier!

andrea — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:45:03 +0000

Some drawings age like wine, some drawings age like cheese and some drawings age like peas.

Some monsters are happy to be watched; some monsters are happy to watch other happy monsters.

Surveillance created ages ago:

Some X-rays tell you what is within; some X-rays tell you what is without.

Valentine’s Day X-ray created February 14, 2006:

Some things are worth falling out of the sky over; some things are not.

Parachute created June 28, 2006:

All are ink on paper; the bottom two had color added in Photoshop.

Oldies But Goodies 3

andrea — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:56:26 +0000

Spelunking in the caves of my hard drive, my neato flashlight hat illuminated a few drawing relics that I pickaxed out of the stone walls and am now posting on the internet.

So. It’s hard growing up under the sea. You have to align yourself with cliques, otherwise you’ll be an outcast and you’ll have to eat your Lunchables by yourself in the phone booth. Here are a few of your choices:

Emofish created April 29, 2006:

Goth shark created April 29, 2006:

Punkfish created April 29, 2006:

And on land…Large Larry is quite large and he has one hundred friends and they are all small. They can usually fit in coffee mugs or small purses or glove compartments. One of his best friends is Eddie, who is a mouse. An inventor mouse.

Large Larry created July 31, 2006:

All are ink on paper, colored in Photoshop.

A boy and his jellyfish

andrea — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:57 +0000

Every young boy needs some cute jellyfish to think about.

Materials: pencil on paper. Photoshop: textured paper, color, and borders. The borders are scanned-in stickers from the excellent sticker store in the Farmers’ Market on 3rd and Fairfax in LA.