Illustration Friday: Fortune

Illustration Friday: Fortune
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So you want your fortune read, huh? Well, given the popularity of franchises such as The Home Depot and Lowe's Home Improvement, I've moved to the do-it-yourself model. It saves you big bucks and it saves me from potential lawsuits should you decide to deviate your life from this bonafide, unchangeable, 100% accurate fortune.

Click the image above to see your fortune more clearly and to get instructions on how to intrepret it (you'll probably need to scroll to the right to see the whole shebang). Bring a solar-powered calculator, a basic understanding of icons and color theory, pretzels, a wool sweater, and for seeing into the future, a telescope.

This is my drawing for the Illustration Friday (IF website) assignment, this time to illustrate "Fortune". Sorry if it turned out kind of snotty looking. I was trying for a humorous Monty Python angle but, now that it's posted it's, well, it's not so much. But what's done is done.

Illustration Friday: Fortune

Comments

andrea said…
Hey -- I got the humorous Monty Python angle immediately. Thanks for the grin!
April 13, 2007
Digital Scott's Illustrationblog said…
Wonderfully bizarre! Cool.
April 14, 2007
aeneadellaluna said…
Such a great illustration..love the theme! the colours the concept.. the free eye exame LOL very humorous indeed! thanks for your comment !
April 14, 2007
SLW said…
I love it! It's visually interesting and funny.
April 15, 2007
Anonymous said…
I love it! Wonderful play with color, shape and space, not to mention humor ;)
April 19, 2007
P.L. Frederick said…
Thanks for all the kind comments, everyone!
April 20, 2007
Anonymous said…
I like this very much. It's witty, great colors, great composition!
December 14, 2007
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