Farewell

The theme for Illustration Friday this past week was Farewell.  I was an over-achiever and made two pages...

Here's the first one:

This first one is much more cartoonish; it was something I thought of and just went from brain to paper..

Here's the second one I did:

This second one is a little less cartoonish.  For it, I found an image on Pinterest that inspired the page.   This one is not quite finished.  I have a little more shading work I want to do, but I also wanted to get in under the wire with it for the challenge, so I'm sharing it partway unfinished.

These two pages have shown me that if I want to do something cartoonish, I can draw it right out of my head.  If I want to draw something more realistic, I have to be looking at something real, but what I draw won't necessarily look just like the inspiration image.  I just need it for reference sometimes...

Now that I'm aware of it, I think I can work to make what comes out of my head a little more true to life, at least sometimes.  I don't mind cartoonish.

This was a fun challenge/prompt for me.  I found I could play with the 'Farewell' theme quite a few more times and still have ideas for more pages at the end!  Maybe I need a whole farewell-themed journal...