Wedding Invitations
Posted on November 30th, 2010
Wedding Invitations by Amy Crook
When my Mom decided to get married at short notice, she actually arranged everyone’s attendance by phone — it was a small wedding of just immediate family, so mainly she had to work around everyone’s schedules in time for me to get a reasonably-priced flight out. She asked me to make wedding invitations as sort of a keepsake for everyone, and after a bit of prodding added the descriptors “bright green swirls” to her vague request of “something nice.”
I picked up the cardstock first, simple non-folding cards with a nice embossed “frame” that I’ve faked in here in Photoshop. Names & details have been changed, of course, but this is what I came up with. I first made two sets of swirly, romantic designs in watercolor and scanned them, then I ended up deciding on the lighter green and making them into transparent Photoshop files so I could layer them in InDesign. I printed them by hand at home the same way I make my holiday cards, on my high-quality inkjet printer.
The project (which was my wedding present to them) ended up being a fun combination of fine art, design, and actual production work. She was pleased with the final product, and I kept forgetting to make this “generic-ified” version so I could post them to the site.
If you’re interested in having custom design done for you, you can take a look at my portfolio over at Not Dead Yet Studios or just drop me a line to discuss your project. My December is pretty full, but I’d love to work with you to make something beautiful and functional to fit your needs.
Wedding Invitations, 5.5″x8.5″ hp inks on cardstock, not for sale.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, design, nfs, wedding
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Alex Benedict
Posted on November 29th, 2010
Alex Benedict by Amy Crook
A few of you might be aware that I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year — it’s my 6th year & 5th win (I passed 50K on the 25th). I haven’t titled this year’s novel yet, but in the inevitability of being an artist writing about the same thing every day, I decided to do a sketch of my main character, Alexander Benedict.
Since I was drawing him as procrastination for actual writing, he’s in the client meeting notebook I use, which is a proper sketchbook that got wet at some point in its life and has warped pages — perfect for taking notes in, not so great for art I want to scan and/or keep later. Oops.
Alex Benedict, 4″x7″ pencil on sketchbook paper, not for sale.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: nanowrimo, nfs, pencil, sketch
Coloring Book Doodles
Posted on November 28th, 2010
For most of the buyers of my Cthulhu Coloring Book, I’ve had time to put a little 5-minute sketch in the inside front covers. I remembered to scan most of the doodles before mailing them, so here they are for your to enjoy!
Weeble Deep One sketch by Amy Crook
Evil Brain sketch by Amy Crook
Evil Cheeseburger sketch by Amy Crook
Weeble Death (classic) sketch by Amy Crook
Yig sketch by Amy Crook
Weeble Death (Sandman) sketch by Amy Crook
Octopus sketch by Amy Crook
Hello Zombie Kitty sketch by Amy Crook
Nyarlathotep sketch by Amy Crook
Flying Polyp sketch by Amy Crook
Weeble Skeleton sketch by Amy Crook
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: coloring book, cthulhu, doodle, nfs, silly
Zombie Koi
Posted on November 26th, 2010
Zombie Koi by Amy Crook
This cheerful undead fish is just looking for a few scraps of brains left for him — zombies are notoriously sloppy eaters, after all. He’s on the back cover of my Cthluhu Coloring Book (one of the bonus zombies!), and was one I was most looking forward to coloring myself. His tattered flesh glows an eerie green, but his attractive orange-and-white spots still show through in places.
Zombie Koi, 5″x7″ pen and ink and Copic markers on watercolor paper.
Categories: Daily Art, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: copic marker, fish, for sale, koi, pen and ink, zombie
Weeble Wednesday: Yog-Sothoth
Posted on November 24th, 2010
Weeble Yog-Sothoth by Amy Crook
If you’re feeling a bit short of time this holiday week, perhaps Yog-Sothoth could help you out — or make it all so much worse. Yog-Sothoth is an Outer God of the Lovecraft mythos, and yet another of the oddling creatures in my Cthulhu Coloring Book. Yog-Sothoth was named The Lurker at the Threshold by Lovecraft, and is considered to be both at one with all of time and space, and outside of it.
My interpretation of his form as “great globes of light” is a bit whimsical, so I decided to use actual watercolor to experiment with his coloring, and had fun working wet-in-wet to get some rather psychedelic effects.
Yog-Sothoth, 5″x7″ pen and ink and watercolor on watercolor paper, $79 with free shipping.
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Daily Art, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: for sale, lovecraft, pen and ink, watercolor, weeble
Remember, Forget
Posted on November 23rd, 2010
Remember, Forget by Amy Crook
Once again I was struck with a phrase in the middle of insomnia though this one isn’t a quote that I know of. I wrote it up on my white board and it lurked there for a few weeks until I had a chance to try it out with the same pen-and-watercolor technique as I used for A Circle in Time. I deliberately let the watercolor pool down at the bottom of the page so that it was still damp when I wrote the second line, but dry up top so the first line is clear.
“i teach myself to remember
i teach myself to forget”
As a child, I was often faced with a dire lack of new books to read, so I taught myself to forget the details and endings of books so there was still a sense of adventure when I read them over again later. I often keep whole worlds of detail in my head about other things, however, though the older I get, the less I’m able to stuff new information in without losing track of some of what was already there.
Remember, Forget, 5″x5″ watercolor with pen and ink, $99 with free shipping.
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Daily Art
Tags: for sale, pen and ink, watercolor
Zombie Bride
Posted on November 22nd, 2010
Zombie Bride by Amy Crook
This lovely lady is another one of the bonus zombies from my Cthulhu Coloring Book. I decided to go for a more blue-toned dead (rather than grey or green), sort of an homage to The Corpse Bride. I had fun adding in some extra details with the coloring, like the bloody handprint on her dress.
Zombie Bride, 5″x7″ pen, ink and Copic markers on watercolor paper, $79 with free shipping.
Categories: People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: copic marker, for sale, pen and ink, zombie
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