Dave's iFriday: The Eighties
Death to the future! Long live the past!
You'll have to forgive these old images looking small on today's desktop browsers. 500 pixels was considered pretty wide in 2007.
The big one's the original cover of my high school yearbook, my first published illustration. I drew a color version in 2000, updating the 1980 cover characters, for my 20th reunion website (click on the upper-left TV graphic. UX/UI design was still in its infancy).
Tech Talk 1980
India ink, crow-quill pen, which I'd been using for all of one week. Before then, my drawings were pic-pen renderings of Evel Knevel or Spider-Man on my term papers. Competition for this honor was intense, so if you think the drawing's shaky, you should see who they rejected.
Tech Talk 2000
Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter.
iFriday Dave
Illustration Friday (IF, iFriday) was a weekly challenge to illustrate a one-word theme (wind, smoke, invention, etc.) globally announced on Friday nights. It was similar in spirit to Photo Friday, 24 Hour Comics, 48 Hour Films, and Sketchcrawl. Participants usually posted on their own blogs, then shared links to various iFriday boards. This is from my 2006-2007 participation.
Michelle Lana said...
January 17, 2007 at 4:50 PM Great illo....they are both great!
Luisa said...
January 17, 2007 at 5:06 PM very good! love it!
Healthy Living said...
January 17, 2007 at 8:03 PM Wow, these are really cool!
Brine Blank said...
January 17, 2007 at 10:06 PM That was pretty good inking back in the day...and great that you could carry it into the future...just wait until you get to do the design for the 50th reunion!
Kay Aker said...
January 18, 2007 at 3:16 PM Very talented even as a youngster!
andrea said...
June 19, 2007 at 9:25 PM Great idea. At my 10th high school reunion (too long time now) I was contacted by the same guy who got me to do all the title pages for the school annual to create a banner for the celebration. Some things never change!