2007-07-08 Illustration Friday — ‘Geeky’ — Lock, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This week’s Illustration Friday topic — ‘Geeky’ — coincided with a need for me to exercise my inner geek. Someone in my block of flats doesn’t seem to understand …
2007-07-05 Dogkiller Wifebeater2, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. The previous version of this picture wasn’t working for me. So I zapped the ArtRage layers into Photoshop CS2. I flipped the man and dog horizontally, even though I was fairly convinced in …
2007-07-05 Dogkiller Wifebeater, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I know someone whose husband beat her systematically for around 23 years. She left him. He phoned her the other day, sobbing like I’ve never heard anyone sob before. It sounded like a …
2007-07-01 Illustration Friday — Twist — J taking Roy down, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. With Illustration Friday‘s topic this week being ‘Twist’, I thought it would be a good time to pull out all the stops. So I asked J …
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Dulce Door Sign, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I was sitting in Dulce coffee shop in Centurion yesterday with J when I noticed a terrible sign on the door. Someone had scrawled a very untidy, nasty sign saying, ‘Please use the …
2007-06-16 Illustration Friday — Rejection, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I got my girlfriend — J — to pose for this portrait. It’s for this week’s Illustration Friday topic, ‘Rejection’. I decided to ‘reject’ some of the work I’m busy doing …
Holy moley! I’ve never seen anything like this! I didn’t even know such a thing was possible! A pack of lions take on a herd of buffalo. And I’m not going to say too much about the result. Suffice to …
2007-06-03 Illustration Friday — Pair-a-Dice — ‘Your Paradise’, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. I simply cannot resist an Illustration Friday pun. The topic this week is ‘Your Paradise’. So I just had to give you a ‘pair of dice’ hanging from …
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horse — smiling buddhas, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. A few months ago, I got my first cartooning commission from a Human Resources company. This was the illustration I did as my initial offering, and one of the clients loved it, …
2007-05-28 Balance, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This is a quickie done for Blue Moon, for the same client I can’t talk about. It’s going to be used as an incidental illustration in another of the concepts we’re presenting to the …