Thursday, December 22, 2011

Real life people get logged away & giveaway four

Artists get ideas from people in the real world. They do it all the time.

The other day I was sitting my car at a stop light and a man walked across the street in front of me. He had no chin, a giant nose, a skinny neck, and a comb over. He was drowning in his sweat shirt and had this way of walking that reminded me of a pigeon.

It was awesome. 

Since I was driving I couldn't pull out my sketchbook right then, but I logged him away in my brain for ... something later on.

Yesterday I drew him at the movies.
Observation is a great way to get ideas.


The winner of last week's giveaway is...
... J-Dawg!
(winner was chosen completely at random by drawing numbers from a bowl)
please email me at illustration(at)manelleoliphant(dot)com with your name and mailing address, and I will send you your prize 

Now if you didn't win no worries.
There are two more giveaways to go.

If you don't want to wait check out my print shop or card shop to get your own Manelle art right away. (once you have won you are no longer eligible to enter again but feel free to spread the word. ;)

Here is what you can win.
Three illustrated art prints. They are printed on Epson Velvet fin art paper and signed by me.
They are in two sizes one 5.75x8.5 and two 13x8.5 prints.  (not standard frame sizes)

To enter this contest here is what you need to do.

1. Comment below before Midnight MST on December 26, 2011 (p.s. Merry Christmas!)

You can comment anything but if you need a jump start I'd love to hear about any of your people watching experiences, or if there is any art in my portfolio that you would like to see as a print I'd love to hear that too.

2. Tweet or Facebook status a link back to this blog post.

I'll announce the winner next Thursday.
Good luck everyone. 


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10 comments:

  1. Alright, I want a piece of this.

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  2. Those prints are beautiful!!! Pick me, pick me!

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  3. Hmm, people watching....I remember years ago, as I was eating lunch outside the toy shop in which I worked, an elderly couple came out of the shop. They both looked very handsome together. The lady wore a dress or skirt (I can't remember what color) and the man wore tan slacks, a dark blue suit jacket, and a caper straw hat. As they walked away their backs were toward me and I just sat and watched and smiled. They held hands like a newly in love couple. I decided that I wanted to be just like them.

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  4. LOVE your art! I just discovered you as I was looking through Illustration Friday entries. I would love to win! Merry Christmas!

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  10. That closes entries for this Giveaway. I'll announce the winner on Thursday.

    Hope you all had a great Christmas!

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