Changed Blogs

I've switched the blog system I use on my website so this is now Archives. To see my new work, visit: http://www.alidasaxon.com/journal/

Or you can visit my Livejournal which has the same art plus ramblings and nonsense. http://seian.livejournal.com/

Special Delivery

Special Delivery, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

I've been dooding in illustrator thinking of what I want to do next (or at least soon) on paper, and I thought this fit pretty well with this week's illustration friday theme "capture", in the sense of capturing a moment in time.

We Don't Serve Sushi

We Don't Serve Sushi, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

"We Don't Serve Sushi"

I wouldn't necessarily bet on the sea monster that just crawled up over the boardwalk. Don't come between a dangerous woman and her first cup of coffee. It isn't worth it.

A lot of fun working on this one. The tentacles, that look on her face like she's about go go crazy... Created with colored pencil on a color of Fabriano Tiziano paper appropriately called "coffee". Original work measures roughly 17"x12". You can see the original sketch and all the work in progress shots in the flickr photo set "We Don't Serve Sushi".


And prints available here. I've also got a tshirt idea for this one, but it's going to have to wait until I get a small illustration done for the back. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait. I think it'll be funny.

We don't serve sushi (wip3)

We don't serve sushi (wip3), originally uploaded by alida saxon.

Another work in progress shot. Starting to bring the light into the environment, leaving the two main figures to last. Possibly one more work in progress (wip) shot after this before the finished piece. :)

Check out the set "We don't serve sushi" to see the transitions from the previous work in progress shots.

We don't serve sushi (wip2)

We don't serve sushi (wip2), originally uploaded by alida saxon.

And, it's starting to look like a picture now, but a long way from done. Most areas only have their first glaze of color. Some none at all. The back wall with the jukebox you can start to get the idea of the lighting direction I'm going to be taking.

More next week.

Number 4

Number 4, originally uploaded by alida saxon.

"Number 4"

That cat's going to run through his lives in short order at this rate...

This is a very short comic that's been submitted to a theme project called "Calamity". (Go see the others, or submit your own! Though hurry. It closes July 15th, 2006.)

The rules are 1-3 pages, standard comic ratio. I did this entirely in photoshop this morning, though I did do some roughs last night on paper at home.

We don't serve sushi (wip1)

We don't serve sushi (wip1), originally uploaded by alida saxon.

It's a bit early on in the piece, but I thought those who like to follow the process would like to get in early. Some of you will remember the sketch I did a few weeks ago "Too damn early". It's made it past the sketch book and into a color piece.

Early next week I hope to update with progress and it should be easier to see where I'm going.

Appropriately, I'm doing this illustration on a color of Fabriano Tiziano paper called "coffee".