Posts Tagged ‘all rights reserved’
Weeble Wednesday: Bridget Pilloud
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Bridget Pilloud by Amy Crook, annotated by Bridget
I had the chance to cartoon Bridget Pilloud as one of my very first cartoon clients, back when I was first experimenting with the offering. I had a great time working on her because she has a really clear sense of what makes the perfect “inner Bridget” as she put it — she wanted the designer boots she couldn’t afford in life, a fireball to show her inner fire, and clothes, hair and giant grin just like she has (or had — she’s got a cute pixy cut) in real life.
If you’d like to Be a Cartoon yourself, click on over — it takes me a couple of weeks these days because my schedule’s busier, but I’m loving all the fun results!
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: all rights reserved, bridget pilloud, cartoon, copic marker, pen and ink, weeble
Weeble Wednesday: Rey Magdael
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Rey Magdael by Amy Crook
My good friend Rey & I shared a hotel room at a gaming con (not like that! sheesh), and as part of my half of the room expenses, he decided to be a cartoon. Art for hotel room, awesome! He was too lazy to tell me anything about what specifics he wanted, so I chose his props for him. Yes, this is one of the advantages of being someone I actually know in Real Life — surprise extras!
His iPhone is red because it’s got a skin on it — one he desperately needs for his coworkers, a reproduction of the “Keep Calm and Carry On” posters, and of course a Christmas present from me.
We had fun picking out the skin color for him, I made a bunch of lines on a little strip of paper and wrapped it around his arm. We were both amused that the Copic marker that matched best was called “Orientale.” It’s especially funny because their “Barely Beige” is distinctly pinker than “Baby Skin Pink,” so I rarely trust the names to be descriptive or useful. Score one for Japan, I guess!
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: all rights reserved, cartoon, copic marker, nfs, pen and ink, weeble
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Holly Jackson & Cottage Copy
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Holly Jackson by Amy Crook
Since it’s Sunday, I’ll repost another older cartoon that never made it up here on Antemortem — Holly Jackson and Sir Didymus of Cottage Copy! Holly wanted to show her mighty pen and scroll, and of course the Cottage Copy canine needed to put in his appearance.
He made a second appearance, along with another version of Holly, on the painting I did that eventually became the header for the Cottage Copy website:
Cottage Copy by Amy Crook
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: all rights reserved, cartoon, commission, copic marker, Cottage Copy, Didy, dog, Holly Jackson, pen and ink, watercolor
Cartoon: Heidi Dobbs
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Heidi Dobbs by Amy Crook
Friday brings us one more new cartoon, the lovely Heidi Dobbs! We had fun with color on her cartoon in a different way than Linda’s — we made her clothes a quiet black but she had me give her the fiery hair she wishes she could have! We also took her dog’s favorite snuggly chair and made it a nice robin’s egg blue, a color that wouldn’t stand up to the dog in real life, but makes a wonderful backdrop to her awesome locks in her cartoon.
Thanks for coming along on my week of cartoons! This weekend I’ll post a few people that aren’t new, but haven’t been up on this site before.
Remember, if you want to be a Cartoon, it’s just $79! My list of cartoons-to-be is filling up wonderfully, and I’m always excited to get a new cartoon client in the queue.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: all rights reserved, cartoon, copic marker, Heidi Dobbs, pen and ink
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Weeble Wednesday: Me!
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Amy Crook cartoon by Amy Crook
Last but not least of the six cartoons I did of a group of my friends, I bring you — me! I personally rather like being a weeble, it gives me lots of freedom to do things like make my hair even longer, and wear t-shirts I don’t actually own. I do, however, own the pyjama pants, and they are just as awesome as you think they are.
And no, I still won’t explain the bunny ears.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books
Tags: all rights reserved, cartoon, closet, copic marker, pen and ink, weeble
Cartoon: Linda Esposito, version 2
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Linda Esposito, version 2, by Amy Crook
When Linda and I talked about colors for her cartoons, she asked for greens and olives to match her website, but she added a little postscript saying that if she had her way, it’d be eggplant and tangerine! So I suggested we do one of each, since she’d already decided to keep both.
I had this great light orange marker that made the couch surprisingly warm and inviting, especially when we added the rusty orange and blood red pillows, but managed to be subdued enough not to overwhelm the figure entirely. I gave it nice dark wood to frame it, and then Linda herself got to wear the deep purpley-blue that was as close as I had to a proper eggplant.
All in all, though it’s the same person, her first cartoon will serve her well on her website and in a more professional capacity, while this one gives her something fun and unexpected that still has ‘her’ written all over it.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: all rights reserved, cartoon, copic marker, Linda Esposito, pen and ink
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Cartoon: Linda Esposito, version 1
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Linda Esposito, version 1, by Amy Crook
When the wonderful Linda Esposito of Talk Therapy Biz took me up on getting herself turned into a cartoon, I’m pretty sure she didn’t expect to get two! The one she asked for was the one above, something in greens and browns with a professional feel to it to complement her site. When I was actually doing her sketch, I couldn’t find her email at first with the pose request, so I doodled up an entirely different cartoon of her (I’ll post that one tomorrow) before digging up the “right” pose.
I couldn’t resist showing her both ideas, though, and I was thrilled when she decided to get cartooned twice! She’s been wonderfully patient with this summer’s mad delays, and I’m really happy that she’s finally got her cartoons to show for it.
Categories: Completed Commissions, Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces
Tags: all rights reserved, cartoon, copic marker, Linda Esposito, pen and ink
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