September 2010 – Casey Girard Illustration

Old-Fashioned

I have been giggling all week thinking about drawing this for Illustration Friday. I debated about being creative and coming up with an original idea but, I decided to go with what was making me laugh. When I was a kid I watched classic comedies. I loved them and still do. It’s a Mad, Mad,Continue reading “Old-Fashioned”

Drag Mama Up the Cliffs

Here is the second installment in my sketchbook project. I am not going to draw the events in any particular order, just as the images come to me. This moment happened very recently, just back in June, when we wanted to hike a nature trail from the Jordan Lake House in Maine. The Jordan CliffsContinue reading “Drag Mama Up the Cliffs”

Papa Bear

Continuing to work on those characters for Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Had a little inspiration yesterday at the zoo with Bubba and Smokey, the Stone Zoo bears, sitting right in front of us. They were good models. Although, I still think I made the standing bear look a little too polar bear shaped.

Finally the Final

And the final step, colored pencils. Next week a new idea will be up for Husband’s Choice.

Late Updates

September 15th was International Dot Day celebrating Peter H. Reynold’s book The Dot. I wasn’t able to make my dot for the day but, here it is now. On top of Sept 15 being Dot Day, Zoe who was born! So, this dot is for her. Then a little follow up on the Urban CountryContinue reading “Late Updates”

Marker Layer

Continuing with my comic page, here is the next step of the process, the marker layer.

My Acrobat

Two birds with one stone here, Illustration Friday and the first page to my sketchbook, of Sketchbook Project 2011! I chose my sketchbook theme because of how many times I hear “It will be fun, I swear” from Matt. And, you know what, it is always fun. So, I am planning to draw all theContinue reading “My Acrobat”

the First Step

I enjoyed making the comic page of Squirrel Assassin so much I want to make it more complete. Since, it is time for me to post animal Wednesday, but I haven’t finished the piece I have the opportunity to show you my process. Here is my first stage of drawing out the comic page, pencilContinue reading “the First Step”

Squirrel Assassin

Here is my first comic page after checking out a couple of books and attending a couple of seminars about graphic novels. It is still in rough sketch form. I was hurrying it last night as I was suffering a headache. I wonder if it was partially from my marker. The smell definitely took meContinue reading “Squirrel Assassin”

Making my narrative

About to make a 3 image series of a well read story for my portfolio. I am starting with character design. Here is my Goldilocks:

A Day at the Eric Carle Museum

Today we experienced magical moments. We got to meet Kelly Light and hear story time with David Hyde Costello at the Eric Carle Museum. Together they were encouraging “YOU Can Help” after linking up on Ripple. After watching Ripple grow from just Kelly to hundreds of artists it was truly special to get to meetContinue reading “A Day at the Eric Carle Museum”

The Specimens

Maybe it is because I grew up going to my Mom’s lab a lot or many I just love biology, but when the opportunity came for me to pick up these little vials I jumped, because I knew just what was going in them. and here is a close up for the first collected creature:Continue reading “The Specimens”