Sunday, November 7

The Fire Eater


Just finished a little personal piece, inspired by the sketch I made for this year's Halloween costume: A sideshow/circus fire-eater! 
 AND-it just so happens to fit this week's Illustration Friday theme: BURNING

After having such a blast creating the vintage sideshow-style costumes for Coney Island's Mermaid Parade this past summer, friends and I were inspired to revisit the sideshow theme for Halloween. I decided to make a fire-eater costume....of course with a gory spin on things--I had "real" flaming torches and a disgusting burn on my face!

Before diving into the costume-making, I sketched out my ideas as usual....and couldn't resist revisiting those—now that my Halloween fun is over—to make a nice little illustration. I also realized this makes a nice companion piece to the "Acrobat" image I made for Illustration Friday a few months ago. Looking at these together, I'm also feeling inspired to expand this into more of a series—and potentially apply to notecards, journals, etc. (for sale in my future etsy shop!). I really love this whole vintage-circus theme and feel like I could come up with endless characters.

Here's a glimpse at how my costume looked  :)


10 comments:

  1. Love your illustration style - and the costume ain't bad either!

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  2. Very awesome. Love the illustration, and great costume.

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  3. You are hilarious! I love all the design work in your illustrations! Great clean,crisp style...OK I’m hooked...you have a new follower Jeanine!

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  4. What a super fantastic illustration, love your style, color, everything!

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  5. Nice!! You made yourself eating burning things!!

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  6. Thanks everyone--really appreciate all the nice feedback!

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  7. I know this blog post is old old.
    Being a fire eater myself, i absolutely adore this.

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