work

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” -John Cleese

It’s Good to be King, if just for a while. I draw in my notes for work every day. It helps me digest the things that are said in meetings. In the case, it simply divided one topic from another. I color in the drawings later or the next day, which helps me recall my notes and it is peaceful.

Random sketch.

I had an idea to create illustrations of fruit set in autumn 2017, and have been working on the realization of this idea throughout February/March 2018. In all, I have created 11 illustrations: apple, apricot, banana, cherry, grape, lemon, orange, pear, plum, tomato, watermelon. Using rapidograph to form the shape, I am coloring my works digitally in Adobe Photoshop. Here is an apricot!

I had an idea to create illustrations of fruit set in autumn 2017, and have been working on the realization of this idea throughout February/March 2018. In all, I have created 11 illustrations: apple, apricot, banana, cherry, grape, lemon, orange, pear, plum, tomato, watermelon. Using rapidograph to form the shape, I am coloring my works digitally in Adobe Photoshop. Here is an apple!

A colorful doodle study of my urban backyard. Homage to a 20+ year old delicious apple tree that is no longer part of the view. Artwork done in Procreate.

There was a royal lineage in Europe that was so inbred that their jaws started getting really distended and weird. Like Jay Leno, but inbred. (I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.) Feel free to look up the Hapsburgs. I'll wait. The second picture is a Fiji mermaid and a merman. I think I want a merman tattoo. SMOLDER.

This woman is the last traditional tattooist in Kalinga, Philippines. During her time, she did the tattoos of the warriors from their tribe. Her age now is around mid 90s.

Watercolor piece done in prep for actual graphic design for school course work

I like to make dreamcatchers and sell them at the market, and mandalas are like drawn dreamcatchers.

Want to show off your art work on your own portable art gallery? You can with this erasable backpack.

This is a black-and-white revision of an illustration I made (hand-drawn) for an American Red Cross e-newsletter years ago. The original was in color; however, considering my current work is predominantly black and white, I thought it appropriate to update the illustration for my portfolio. © 2007-2018 Joe Blend. All rights reserved.

Suzanne Gibbs ©2016, Alive! LOOK, paper, pen, watercolor, 4.75 x 4.75 inches

Suzanne Gibbs ©2016, Health School Tales, paper, pen, watercolor, 4.75 x 4.75 inches

© 2017 Joe Blend. All rights reserved. — Artwork made by redacting words in a newspaper article to create a haiku. A contour drawing was added using white ink, to convey the meaning behind the haiku (note: the word "the" was added by using semi-opaque tape to remove the word from a different newspaper article). The piece was scanned into Adobe Photoshop for small adjustments, to prepare for printing.

This is a dragon animation. If you want to see the actual thing, go to this link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/195408941/#comments-86849692 all work is drawn by me.

Pen and ink. Commission work

Sketched during a live stream of one of my favorite people, this artwork is symbolic of how we creatives communicate and interact using social media.

Old work of mine from 1998. Pen and ink on paper , colored pencils. Pointillism.

Also done in 1997. Pen and Ink pointillism. One of my earlier works.

YlyaYod sketch 020, 2017 pencil, watercolor pencils 210 x 297 mm. N020

YlyaYod sketch 019, 2017 pencil, watercolor pencils 297 x 210 mm. N019

YlyaYod sketch 017, 2017 pencil, watercolor pencils 210 x 297 mm. N017

YlyaYod sketch 012, 2017 pencil 210 x 297 mm. N012

YlyaYod sketch 010, 2017 pencil 210 x 297 mm. N010

YlyaYod sketch 007, 2017 pencil 210 x 297 mm. N007

YlyaYod sketch 005, 2017 pencil 210 x 297 mm. N005

YlyaYod sketch 002, 2017 pencil 210 x 297 mm. N002