Tag: Cartooning
May 29th, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board – ‘Oranges in Pine Castle’ painting.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.29, 2014, under Illusration, Swampy's Florida
A few days ago I posted the setup for this watercolor painting. Here’s the finished artwork. It’s for a show of Florida artists at the Pine Castle Women’s Club in south Orange County starting June 1st. This will also be available as a Swampy’s Florida print (#38) soon.
The Pine Castle Women’s Club art show is comprised of Florida artists presenting Florida history in various mediums.
May 28th, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board: Watercolor caricature!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.28, 2014, under Caricatures, Cartooning
Here’s the finished watercolor version of the penciled artwork I showed yesterday. I admit I made an error with the bag of recycled cans over the shoulder of the fellow. Had to do this one pretty quickly and lost my concentration of rendering the fellow’s shoulder and the bag. Fixed it the best I could.
May 27th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Prepping a studio caricature!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.27, 2014, under Caricatures, Florida Outdoors!
Here are the pencils for two people who volunteered at Silver Springs State Park to clean up the Silver River and area around it. it’s figured they’ve raised some $3,000 in cans collected.
This is the pencil version that I’m sending in for approval. After approval, I have another step for prep and then adding watercolor. I’m sure to post the finished artwork in the next couple days.
I have a painting to also paint and plan to do both at the same time.
Announcing Swampy’s Florida Kickstarter program!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.27, 2014, under Cartooning, Florida History!, Florida Outdoors!, Swampy's Florida
Announcing a Swampy’s Florida Kickstarter program to get five Swampy’s Florida books produced! In the past three years I’ve produced 14 Swampy books, 37 prints, 2 DVDs and seven cards. There’s lots more to come! However, I’ve poured a ton of time in all of this and have more than run out of resources to produce more without backing. Funding will ensure more educational and activity books available to help young people know more about the great state of Florida.
Click here to head over to Kickstarter!
There’s a goal to get five funded by June 21st! Lots of goodies! I’ll even try to hand deliver the goodies if the donor falls within my travels this Fall.
The five books are:
– Historical Women of Florida
– Florida History Puzzles and Games
– A Short History of trains in Florida
– Birds of Florida
– Fish and Aquatic Life in Florida
All five will be coloring and travel guide books and able to be used in home schooling or just for fun!
There will be constant updates here as I build all five books.
But wait! There’s more!
There are four other books involved that are left over prior to the new arrangement with The Knowledge Exchange. These four will also be completed at the same time:
– Polk County- Titusville
– Dunnellon
– Marion County ABC
The funding will also loosen my time to wrap up these four books.
All will be available by Fall.
Thank you to The Knowledge Exchange, for so much help, and Dave Stewart, who produced the video on the site and gave sage advice, for all their help putting this together. I’ll have to share the video here as the next month goes along.
Thank you to all that donate to this project!
I’ll be posting updates here as this Kickstarter program continues!
May 26th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Critters on the Run!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.26, 2014, under Cartooning, Florida Outdoors!
Today penciled and inked this illustration for a five mile run – for people – coming up this fall in Silver Springs State Park in Florida.
May 25th, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board – A Fishing Salute!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.26, 2014, under Cartooning
Here is the colored version of artwork for the Stick Marsh Veterans Bass Challenge being put on by the Veterans Resource Committee of the Melbourne Regional Chamber of East Central Florida. HEre’s the post with the black and white artwork – https://robsmithjr.com/blog/?p=7260
May 22nd, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board: Start of new painting of picking oranges in Florida.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.23, 2014, under What's New?
This’ll be a watercolor painting of early Florida orange pickers. This is the first step for me. Getting the general feel of the art in the image area. After this I’ll further prep the paper and then add watercolor.
I had to digitally darken the pencil art so you all could see it. The actual pencils are far lighter. The background, for instance, will be erased of pencil line and replaced with just watercolor. My add some defining lines, That will depend
May 21st, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board: Batman!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.22, 2014, under Caricatures, Cartooning, What's New?
It was day 2 of my drawing in a booth of HMS during the Blue Cross and Blue Shield conference at the Marriott World Center in south Orange County. Besides caricatures, I drew this Batman for the husband of the person who organized the HMS booth. He’s a huge Batman fan and collector. I rarely get a chance to drawing superheroes these days and this Batman sure shows it. Proportion off as are the legs.
Below are a couple of the caricatures I drew with a suprehero theme.
May 20th, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board: Tradeshow caricatures with a superhero twist today & tomorrow!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.21, 2014, under Caricatures
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by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.19, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Here’s the inked cover of the penciled drawing I showed yesterday. I used my many years with the City of Orlando in the Planning and Engineering Departments to map out a condensed, but doable, community. This is for a give-away during this week’s Florida Parent Educators Association annual convention by The Knowledge Exchange. This is to encourage ravel in Florida and beyond! thus, the mountains in the background….or it could also be a mountain version of the old Florida Festival tent that was once across from Sea World in south Orange County.
May 18th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Swampy’s Florida Cover!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.19, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
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