Illustration

August 27, 2010

Immoovable

A new unBook by Scott E Franson that will never be at a store near you. For illustrationfriday.com

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August 4, 2010

Time goes fast when your having fun

I have been working on this for the last several hours looking forward to posting to illustrationfriday.com for the word “double”. Apparently last week went faster than expected and so here is a new but late unbook. Click the image to enlarge.

Introducing

Siamese Socks: A Double Knit Twins Mystery. The knitting in this image is completely artificial. It is created with digital knits and purls in Photoshop. No sheep suffered humiliation or overexposure in the production of this image. In fact no trees have been used in the production of this artificial cover for an artificial story. So enjoy and double your artificially flavored fun.

Disclaimer

UnBooks are fake book covers based on the word from illustrationfriday.com. They will never be at a store near you.

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August 3, 2010

From the archieves: Accessories

This image was originally produced for a print exchange in the late 90s.

National Geographic

I can remember as a kid how fascinated I was with the gold rings and the long necks of the women from a tribe in Africa. “Why would they do that?” I wondered to myself. Yet I was still amazed as I looked through National Geographic. Then one day I realized that culturally the western world has some traditions for which the same question could be asked. Why would anyone wear a tie? And pocket protectors? Come to think I haven’t seen a pocket protector in quite a while.

Late night television

If you are old enough to remember Ted Koppel from Nightline (maybe he is still on the air, I haven’t watched TV in a long time), I used his hair as inspiration for the guy in the tie

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July 22, 2010

Illustration Friday | Breakfast

Breakfast

I couldn’t help it. This is a recycled image but it fit the word so well. Thanks as always to illustrationfriday.com.

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July 20, 2010

OJ

illustrationfriday.com : Breakfast

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June 24, 2010

Calico cammmel

This painting was done as an experiment in a workshop that I went to last week. As everyone should know three humps are for crossing longer deserts. This camel should be spelled cammmel.

The workshop was with Kevin Hawkes at the Writing and Illustration for Young Readers Conference in Sandy, Utah. As always it was a great week filled with ups and downs and now my book is better.

Kevin had so much good practical advice and had a way of presenting information so that it was easily understood. Each day we started off with an exercise to warm up which he compared to yoga. It was a great conference with a great instructor.

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June 23, 2010

Painting No.062310 | The Birth of Paisley

The birth of paisley as a multi-cellular animal. I have included a magnified image so that you can see the internal organelles and numerous gelatinous membranes.

Thank you as always to www.illustrationfriday.com for the prompt.

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June 5, 2010

Illustration Friday | Trail

A summer trail through a winter world is made possible by an Un-brella.

This is a spread from my picture book Un-brella. It seemed like a perfect choice for this weeks illustrationfriday.com word, “trail.”

Can you see the trail the rabbit followed?

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June 1, 2010

Illustration Friday: Slither

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April 16, 2010

Rigby Library

The Friends of the Rigby Library | Last night I had the honor to be a guest of The Friends of the Rigby Library in Rigby, Idaho. I gave a presentation to children and their parents about Un-Brella. I shared my book with them and gave a very brief digital illustration project with them.

Digital sugar cookie | I decorated a digital sugar cookie. One of the best things about digital sugar cookies is that they are naturally fat free. Here is the finished cookie. my favorite part of the presentation was when I invited my daughter to come up at the end and take bites out of the cookie.

Scott E Franson