I was going to wait to post this illustration, but with this week’s Illustration Friday topic being “unbalanced” I just couldn’t resist. This illustration is part of a series of illustrations I’m doing for a card company. I’ll be giving details later, so be sure to subscribe to the blog. Or subscribe to my newsletter. But for now, enjoy!

In case you’ve been wondering why my site is “ClelandIllustration.com” instead of “ClelandDesign.com”, it’s because ClelandDesign.com has been taken. And whom, you may ask, has this domain? My wife. I’ve been trying to acquire it from her for several years now, and she won’t budge. I’ve offered her millions of dollars but she refuses (something about money not meaning anything because we have a joint bank account). I even made her hot chocolate last night—still won’t budge. Oh well.

Since she’s being a big meanie I’ve decided to be the nice one and update her portfolio website for her. She has really great work, and needs a good site to showcase it. The site has been updated a few weeks now, but we’ve added a blog over the weekend, so be sure to subscribe. Check it out at www.clelanddesign.com. Comment on her first blog post. Encourage her to update it regularly, because she has a lot of cool stuff in the works.

Just playing around with coloring techniques in Photoshop. The coloring style is inspired by a great illustrator, Dennis Jones. He’s the guy that illustrated the ZonderKids Read With Me Bible that my church passes out to all the kids moving into first grade. I always get jealous of them. They get shiny new copies and my copy is nearly nine years old and worn.

I just realized that my last post was titled “Happy Chef”. What will be my next “happy” post? Who knows. Maybe I need more creativity when it comes to my post headers?