Chris Leavens: October 2007 Archives

Well, this is it, the very last illustration for IAD 2007:

My stab at Halloween. I wanted to go for a different, sadder kind of scary. As with a few others this month, I really wish I had more time to smooth out the wrinkles, but the message I want to convey is there.

Medium: AI CS3

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This was a quick one, but I packed it with a little extra absurdity:

One more to go.

Medium: AI CS3

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This is an idea I've had stored in my brain for a long time. I was originally going to paint it, but it seemed to lend itself to IAD:

Medium: AI CS3

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IAD nearly ended tonight as I was drawing this one:

Popping this one out was a psychological and creative struggle. The project is beginning to push me to the limit, mostly because of sleep deprivation.

Medium: AI CS3

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My head feels like scrambled eggs. The 26th installment of Illustration a Day follows the colon:

Medium: AI CS3

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I guess technically, it's stealing tree, because a bit of duplication was employed. More than likely, I'll revisit this one after the month breaks -- I'd love to give it a little more time and attention.

143 points to the first person who notices the very thinly-veiled homage to an eminent surrealist.

Medium: AI CS3

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A quick one, a bit darker and simpler than usual:

Medium: AI CS3

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Near, far. Near, far. I guess I like the whole "wide-angle" dynamic.

Medium: AI CS3

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Titles are a bit of an afterthought, if it wasn't obvious already.

This one took a lot longer than I intended.

Medium: AI CS3

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IAD 11, Open, was a quick sketch finished within a few minutes. I liked the idea and wanted to give it the full Adobe Illustrator treatment:

Although I'm pleased with the results from an artistic standpoint, I can't say it's one of my favorites. But I'm sure, just like the one with the pipes, a bunch of people will like it.

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Here's another Illustration a Day entry. Only eleven to go.

I guess it's no secret that I'm a big fan of modernist illustration, specifically cartoon-type illustration. I try not to be too derivative, but I realize that I probably come pretty close to betraying my influences sometimes.

Medium: AI CS3

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This one's dedicated to Dungeon Master Wargo:

Icosahedron, give me resolve.

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Complimentary colors make-um file huge, even after chief's compression ceremony:

Medium: AI CS3 (again)

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"The box! I choose the box!"

"OK, let's see what's in the box."

(A few of you know what comes next.)

Medium: AI CS3

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Given a little extra time, I think this one could be even better. Click on it to see the bigger version; for this one, it's quite necessary:

But this is illustration a day. I'll have to make the changes and post it during illustration as you please.

Medium: AI CS3 (Adobe Illustrator CS3, for those of you who may have forgotten.)

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A bit of a Mr. Chompins redux:

Mr. Chompins, you see, takes to the nighttime skies in pursuit of misbehaving, disrespectful children, whom he eats.

Medium: AI CS3

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Illustration a day continues with BANINJA.

Textures: PS CS3
Illustration: AI CS3

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Request filled:

I didn't comply 100% with Alex's original request ("I request a picture of an astronaut with space-rockets lined up for launch behind him, and behind them, a blue sky. The astronaut should also be holding a fresh, hot pie of some sort. Maybe there should be bikini-clad graduate students reflected in his visor, washing an official NASA pie truck."), but I dare say I improved on it. You be the judge.

Medium: AI CS3 (but of course!)

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More (click it to see the biggun'):

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When I was in Thailand a few years ago, I ran across a mural detailing the Ramakien, a mythology imported from India. Part of the mural depicts a scene in which one of the heroic characters (Hanuman, I think) expands his own head until it is the size of a building. He does this to disguise himself. People walk into his mouth and they don't realize it's alive. This idea has become a minor obsession of mine over the years. I started drawing a stream-of-consciousness piece and it crept in (or out, or whatever) again:

Open.jpg

Medium: Pencil (Dixon Ticonderoga!) and Paper

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Another in the style of Feeshes:

Textures: PS CS3
Medium: AI CS3

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I don't know why I keep going back to themes of oral hygiene; I've got good teeth and I've never feared the dentist. Maybe Dental Mania has indeed taken hold.

Medium: AI CS3

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Media: Photoshop CS3 & AI CS3

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Ironic utensils should be the required desktop background images on every computer.

"No way!?" says ye.

"WAY!" I exclaim, "So way!"

Medium: AI CS3
Available in other sizes and desktop-background-friendly dimensions upon request.

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I had this idea... a forest made of all metal scraps. So I started drawing this tree and it ended up being a torturous mess. The effect I created to give the pipes dimension, in cooperation with a light drop shadow (for depth) crashed my computer about a dozen times. So I wrapped this one up and called it quits.

To be entirely honest, it doesn't fit into what I normally like to do, but here it is anyway, my very own Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

Medium: AI CS3
Text added for feeling.

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mrchompins.jpg

Medium: Pencil & Paper

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Illustration a Day continues with...

Medium: AI CS3

Any requests?

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worms.gif

Media: Pencil & Paper/AI CS3

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October is here, which means the second annual Unloosen Awareness Month is also here. This year, to celebrate the awareness, I've decided to post a new illustration every day for the next 31 days. I figured I might as well start things off right, so here goes:

Medium: Adobe Illustrator CS3

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