Digital Illustration
#CrisisCreativity
I have been involved with Field Innovation Team (FIT) for the past five years and was excited to bring together my artistic skills and disaster communications work with our current FIT challenge, COVID-19 Project SUZ. You can read about FIT here but, in a nutshell, it brings together innovators from all walks of life to ideate solutions for issues arising from disasters.
I have never liked to be pigeon-holed into one career or field and always try to apply skills and ideas from previous endeavours into what I'm doing in the present. One of our challenges for Project SUZ was to either pick up a new skill or try to foster and improve upon a current skill. The goal was to make a video about it but video is not my forte, so I decided to do an illustration series, instead. Because this is being done in tandem with a #100DayChallenge, in which I am producing a drawing every day for 100 days, you will see some of these drawings in other galleries here. For example, the poison control memes are also part of a series of vintage illustrations and the Timmy the Tabby drawings are a separate exploration of character development. As of this writing, I am on Day 20 of the challenge, so you can expect more Crisis Creativity drawings at some point, going forward.
I have never liked to be pigeon-holed into one career or field and always try to apply skills and ideas from previous endeavours into what I'm doing in the present. One of our challenges for Project SUZ was to either pick up a new skill or try to foster and improve upon a current skill. The goal was to make a video about it but video is not my forte, so I decided to do an illustration series, instead. Because this is being done in tandem with a #100DayChallenge, in which I am producing a drawing every day for 100 days, you will see some of these drawings in other galleries here. For example, the poison control memes are also part of a series of vintage illustrations and the Timmy the Tabby drawings are a separate exploration of character development. As of this writing, I am on Day 20 of the challenge, so you can expect more Crisis Creativity drawings at some point, going forward.
Timmy the Tabby
I had originally set out to do a series of drawings of The Real VOST Cat and somehow ended up with Timmy. Since the series is Timmy & Friends, Chaco and Wally may still make an appearance.
"Pencil" Drawings
I put "pencil" in quotes because these were still done on an iPad Pro. I used Procreate and an Apple Pencil and they are usually a combination of an HB, a 6B, and soft pastel.
