Posts Tagged ‘all rights reserved’
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
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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Graduating is Cool
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Graduating is Cool, a Doctor Who commission by Amy Crook
This was also a commission, by the coolest Aunt in the world, for her niece that’s going into fashion design in the fall. The bright purple of the original is, as always, hard to reproduce on the computer, but the Doctor is all kitted up for the ceremony, including a proper tassel on his (very cool) fez!
Want a little Doctor of your own? You can commission art for yourself or a friend!
Graduating is Cool, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
Categories: Completed Commissions, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, copic marker, doctor who, eleventh doctor, nfs, pen and ink, sold
In or Out
Thursday, June 12th, 2014
In or Out, Doctor Who parody art by Amy Crook
Peter Capaldi is most famous in England for his role as the foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It — or at least he was, until he got cast as the twelfth Doctor. We haven’t seen anything about him except his costume, and August refuses to hurry here, so this bit of Doctor Who fan art uses a quote from Malcolm’s mouth.
This art was a commission for one of my favorite patrons, but she’s kindly allowed me to put them on cards for my Etsy shop, so you can enjoy some sweary twelfth Doctor of your very own!
In or Out, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
In or Out, Doctor Who greeting card by Amy Crook on Etsy
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, doctor who, jo vanevery, nfs, pen and ink, sold
Calm, Cool, and… yeah
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
Calm, Cool, and… yeah, commission by Amy Crook
all rights reserved so please don’t steal
I have patrons from the coolest places, y’all. Renee is from Malaysia, and she’s been trying to think of the perfect commission for a while. She wanted something that emphasized the character of each of these three somewhat reluctant heroes, so we decided on the “Calm, Cool, and Collected,” trope. Except that Eleven was a lot of things, but collected really isn’t one of them. Besides, bow ties are cool. Spock epitomizes calm, and Sherlock with his popped collar and his cheekbones is definitely cool, so Eleven helped us out by crossing out his adjective and adding in, “also Cool.”
Although the original is (obviously) sold, Renee has kindly consented to let me put our trio on a card that you can buy in my Etsy shop for you very own trio of heroes.
Calm, Cool, and… yeah, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
Spock, Sherlock and Doctor Who card by Amy Crook at Etsy
Categories: Card Design, Completed Commissions, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: all rights reserved, commission, copic marker, doctor who, eleventh doctor, nfs, pen and ink, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes, spock, star trek
Gift Deductions
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
Gift Deduction, commission comic by Amy Crook
all rights reserved, no copying or Sherlock will know
Another holiday commission! What is this world coming to? Actually it’s just that I’m finally getting around to posting these, because I just finished a few others, including one I can’t post yet, hah.
Sherlock is looking very smug indeed here as he rattles the box and says, “Deducing the perfect gift is hardly a challenge worthy of my intellect… But I made an exception for you.”
This will be a card next holiday season, but for now you can just stare longingly and plan to send one to everyone you love enough.
Gift Deduction, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
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, nfs, pen and ink, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes
Bollocking the TARDIS
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
Bollocking the TARDIS, commission by Amy Crook
all rights reserved, please don’t copy without permission
My wonderful patron from New Zealand, Caroline, commissioned this little comic for her housemate for Christmas, and I’m finally getting around to posting it.
If you’re not familiar with The Thick of It, it’s the show Peter Capaldi was most famous for before he agreed to become the Twelfth Doctor on Doctor Who. Or thirteenth. Or possibly fourteenth. I’m not super clear on that part… Anyway, Malcolm Tucker is the character well known for his incredibly creative and prolific swearing, which is extra hilarious since it’s a show about the inner workings of British politics.
Malcolm’s bollocking face is straight from the show.
The original is, obviously, safely in the hands of its happy recipient, but Caroline’s given me permission to make it into a greeting card for your most swear-happy friends.
Bollocking the TARDIS, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic marker on paper.
Bollocking the TARDIS, blank greeting card by Amy Crook at Etsy
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, doctor who, nfs, pen and ink, tardis, the thick of it, twelfth doctor
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