Four wheels

For the "four wheels" contest, most of the suggestions in the theme were for vehicles, so I went with inline skates.



I used the "summertime" colors from the set of shared palettes created by the "synergy" group I'm part of. I'm not 100% on how it came out - I just couldn't get it to look the way I pictured in my head. In any case, at least I made it out of the bottom third of entries! My favorite was the "rolling robots."

Bauhaus

This week's contest was for a Bauhaus-style design. I really like the work of Anni Albers and Gunta Stölzl, so I tried to do a little patchwork inspired by some of their work.



This did pretty well, and it got into the top quarter of the contest again.

Cubed Manatees

For the ocean animals design challenge, I drew manatees:



I tried to arrange them in the classic cube optical illusion. This actually did pretty well - I got into the top quarter of entries!

My favorites were the kraken spirals and cartoony fishes.

Dancing spiders

For the "land animals" challenge, I drew peacock spiders. If you haven't seen these before, they're known for lifting up their colorful hindbodies and doing a little dance.



This almost made it into the top third.  My favorite was this very impressionistic take on African animals.

Three types of wings

For the "animals by air" challenge, I did a bunch of drawings of my favorite flying animals:



Swans, barn owls, hummingbirds, ravens, Stellar's jays, fruit bats, bumblebee bats, butterflies, ladybugs, honey bees, and wood bees. This actually made it all the way to the middle third of entries.

My favorites were the geometric owls, the china-pattern swallows, and the birds and butterflies carrying letters.