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No Hugs
Sunday, November 2nd, 2014
No Hugs, Doctor Who parody art by Amy Crook
Even though this is technically a holiday card design, I decided to leave the word bubbles off this original so it’s more of a lovely, grumpy portrait of Peter Capaldi’s twelfth Doctor. You can see the cute comic complete with words below. I copied his pose from the first publicity still they gave us of his costume, but used the universal gesture for “no touching” instead.
He is really not into hugging.
You can get these adorable cards on Etsy.
No Hugs, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
No Hugs, greeting cards by Amy Crook on Etsy
Categories: Card Design, Floating Gallery, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: copic marker, doctor who, etsy, for sale, parody, pen and ink, twelfth doctor
Their Eyes Met
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
Their Eyes Met, a Sherlock parody comic by Amy Crook
Kim has been a wonderful customer on Etsy for a while, and she decided to take the leap and get me to draw her Sherlock ship for her, Lestrade and Molly. She wanted something funny with the two of them making eyes at each other over a corpse in the morgue, and we gave them each something to be pretending to look at before their eyes meet.
This is what she had to say about her commission:
I found the whole experience really positive and fun. Amy’s been really helpful and enthusiastic about the commission and kept in touch regularly to let me know how it was going. And seeing pics of it in progress has been great – watching it come to life on the paper!
Once my package arrived, I was so thrilled – I love the picture. I think she’s created and captured Molly and Lestrade just right for me. And the little extras in the envelople were wonderful, especially the unexpected and lovely line drawing of Greg tucked in with my art. I think he’s worth framing as well.
All in all, a brilliant and positive experience. And a lovely haul of goodies!
-Kim
Kim has also been kind enough to let me share the art with you, by putting this adorable card up in my shop. She’s pretty awesome, right?
Their Eyes Met, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
Their Eyes Met, greeting card on Etsy by Amy Crook
Categories: Card Design, Completed Commissions, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, copic marker, kim, lestrade, molly hooper, nfs, pen and ink, sherlock, sold
Blankie
Monday, September 29th, 2014
Blankie, a Sherlock parody comic by Amy Crook
This idea came up in conversation with yet another friend, so I suppose it’s sort of like a fourth sketch prompt. We both liked the idea of Sherlock gloomily buried in his duvet, refusing to come out until a good case comes along. I can only imagine John’s accompanying expression of total exasperation.
The original has been claimed, but you can send this as a card to that one friend that clearly needs to get out more.
Blankie, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
Sherlock in his Blankie blank card by Amy Crook on Etsy
Categories: Card Design, Floating Gallery, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: copic marker, etsy, nfs, pen and ink, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, sold
Not That Kind of Dwarf
Friday, September 26th, 2014
Not That Kind of Dwarf, parody comic by Amy Crook
“Hi Ho, Hi Ho, to Erebor we go!”
“I’m not that kind of dwarf!”
The last of my friends’ silly sketch prompts, though I admit to taking liberties with the intent of “Thorin and his minions.” This is sort of a three-way crossover, with the Disney song sneaking in a third fandom. Because reasons.
You can get Thorin and his Minions on a card at my Etsy shop, to add a bit of surreal pop culture to the day of a very deserving friend.
Not That Kind of Dwarf, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
Not That Kind of Dwarf greeting card by Amy Crook on Etsy
Categories: Card Design, Floating Gallery, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: copic marker, despicable me, etsy, hobbit, minion, nfs, pen and ink, sold, thorin
Q. Holmes
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
Q. Holmes, a fan art comic by Amy Crook
The second of the silly sketch prompts, proving my friends deserve me, is the crossover known as Bondlock, wherein Bond’s Q is the third Holmes brother. I imagine he’s making that face because his big brothers are giving him crap about his fashion sense, though honestly being related to those two is cause enough.
The original was sold in last month’s Floating Gallery, but you can get cards at my Etsy shop, should you so desire. They frame beautifully, or so I’m told.
Q. Holmes, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
Q. Holmes greeting card by Amy Crook on Etsy
Categories: Card Design, Floating Gallery, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: 007, copic marker, etsy, james bond, mycroft holmes, nfs, pen and ink, q, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, sold
Continuations
Monday, September 22nd, 2014
Continuations, commission art by Amy Crook
Sometimes the love of cephalopods really brings people together! Zack was looking for a squid to use in a client-side interface, and ended up becoming a patron to boot. These little guys are anthropomorphic representations of programming concepts I won’t try to explain – he says it much better than me what they’re useful for:
When working on a problem, sometimes you stumble onto a solution that you don’t quite have the words or theory to adequately describe.
I asked Amy to help me document four primitives that I found useful in composing small units of code across time and space.
And now the primitives live on my desk in a framed illustration and I don’t have to worry about forgetting them or which notebook they were documented in.
Curiously, I like looking at her illustrations, whereas, as a harsh self-critic, I don’t enjoy reading my own technical work.
I liked the outcome so much that I immediately engaged her to draw up my next design, at a much earlier stage in the process.
I would definitely recommend Amy to anyone involved in creative technical work, and I hope others would be open to the incorporation of art into technology.
Symbolic abstraction doesn’t have to be limited to the greek alphabet.
-Zack Galler, Mathlords
Continuations, 7″x5″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
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Categories: Completed Commissions, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, copic marker, nfs, pen and ink
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Kittenish
Monday, September 15th, 2014
Kittenish by Amy Crook
A while back I asked some friends for sketch prompts, and this is the first of three quite adorably silly suggestions I was given. After I sketched them, I couldn’t resist inking and coloring them, and so we have James Bond getting a face full of kitten fur from his Quartermaster.
Remember, real men head boop kittens.
The original was sold in September’s Floating Gallery, but you can get a card in my Etsy shop.
Kittenish, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
00Q Kittenish greeting card by Amy Crook on Etsy
Categories: Card Design, Floating Gallery, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: 007, 00q, copic marker, etsy, james bond, nfs, pen and ink, q, sold
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