Illusration
January 29th, 2014 – Springing to Illustrate Speakers about of Florida Springs
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.30, 2014, under Caricatures, Illusration, Swampy's Florida
Last night I was part of a Florida springs symposium with a wide variety of speakers updating the audience about the current status of our natural springs and about upcoming legislation.
My role was creating a unique painting of each speaker during their presentation. A few are on the table below. I have a bit of cleanup to do with each and I’ll post them here in the next week.
January 4th, 2014- #DailyInks #4 – Colorful Fish!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.04, 2014, under Cartooning, Illusration
Tomorrow’s my father’s birthday and each year he get’s a watercolor painting by me. More recently he’s got paintings having to do with Florida and frogs. I’ll show the final painting Monday or so. For the Daily Inks, I’ll show the fish I inked after painting the fellow a bit ago today.
November 26th, 2013 – #Dailyinks #25 – Christmas Card – Part 3
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Nov.26, 2013, under Illusration
The last of the sneak previews of my Christmas card for this year. This is another of the many critters that are in the illustration. Taking the card to get printed tomorrow.
November 25th, 2013 – #Dailynks #24 – Christmas Card – Part 2
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Nov.25, 2013, under Illusration
Here’s another peak at my annual Christmas card as i continue to work on it. Native Florida critters always dominate the illustration along with a Florida historic site. Here’s the Bald Eagle that can be found statewide. I should have the card finished tomorrow. Hope to start distributing cards Thursday and this weekend in southwest Florida.
November 21st, 2013 – #Dailyinks #20 – Shopping Cartoons!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Nov.21, 2013, under Cartooning, Illusration
These are a few inked drawings that are last minute replacements for a set of buildings for a map I’m working on. I just couldn’t get the buildings to work and these figures probably better showcase the wares of the businesses involved.
November 7th, 2013 – #Dailyinks #6 – Deer, Drawing the Moving Target!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Nov.07, 2013, under Illusration, Sketchbook
Was at Ocali Days today helping man the Marion County Museum of History booth. The event continues through Sunday at Silver Springs State Park.
After the event I hit the swamp hiking trail in the park and made my way to the connecting Silver River. I made a video, which I will feature separately. As I finished the video Scott Mitchell, Silver River Museum Director, was coming up with a group to take a boat ride on the Silver River to the head springs of the river.
After teh boat ride we all jumped in a trailer to be taken back to the main park. It was late, we traveled slow and discovered deer along the way. i decided to put ink pen to paper and whipped out these nearly contour drawings of various deer we saw. Drawing while the vehicle and the deer were in motion was a challenge!!!
October 14th, 2013 – Judicial Artwork
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Oct.14, 2013, under Illusration
Did a series of courtroom illustrations for my friend Sally Baptiste today. I’ll now take the art and further work on the illustrations. Sally now has art of the courtroom scene of her winning her case today.
September 23rd, 2013 – Inked Barn Dance Illustration!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.22, 2013, under Illusration
Here’s the final inked art from the pencils seen below. You can see I altered a few things here and there I went from pencils to inks. The client also made a few requests involving the lady in the illustration. This is a private commission.
September 14th, 2013 – Pencil art
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.15, 2013, under Illusration
Here is the pencil rough for an illustration I’m developing for a client. I’ll try to show the progress of the art was I work on it.
August 28th, 2013 – New Swampy’s Florida print: Sea Turtle Christmas Surprise.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.28, 2013, under Illusration, Swampy's Florida
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by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.27, 2013, under Illusration
Here are the pencils and preparatory art for the watercolor I’m about to add to this artwork. It is a photograph and not a scan of the work. Didn’t have a scanner with me.
This is for a set of Christmas cards and prints available soon. The setting is Key Biscayne, Florida. That’s the Biscayne lighthouse in the background. The size is 11″ x 14″.
I’ll post the finished watercolor version soon.