ForTheKids

Author: Nate Creekmore | Date: 19-02-2012 | Category: Artwork | Comments: 0
Tags: NATE CREEKMORE, ELEMETARY, KIDS, FOR THE KIDS, ILLUSTRATION, WORKBOOK, SCHOOOL
So, it's time for my weekly posting.  I was going to put up some new sketches I'd done during the past week but, in the course of packing up my belongings and moving into a new apartment, I came across a bunch of old illustrations I was commissioned to do for a project that never (as far as I know...) came to fruition.  It was going to be a workbook encouraging kids to stay away from drugs, to study hard, to stay active/healthy... to basically be good citizens.

Here are a few highlights:

This one is probably my favorite.  Listen up kids, if you make bad choices you'll end up in prison.





...and here, we have kids who treat each other badly by spreading rumors and general half-truths.  Number four in the background is being slandered by a classmate.





Actually, I think this one is my favorite.  The idea was that a child should be armed with knowledge.  Heh, heh, get it?  Armed?


Here's another tough, confident elementary student.





Getting good grades will allow you to fly over obstacles, represented here by a sturdy brick wall.





This kid has two choices in front of him:  he can play chess, make good grades (for his adoring, photogenic  parents) and fly a kite through a field of butterflies, or he can make bad grades, get into fights, and be arrested and thrown in jail.  He's halfway in the bad grades window, but he also likes what he sees in door number 1...




Remember kick ball?  I used to be GREAT at kick ball (and because I've kept in touch with none of the people I knew back in elementary school when I actually played kick ball, no one can say otherwise.  One of the perks of growing up in a military family that moved around every couple of years.  Is "perk" the right word..?).



This illustration was meant to show kids helping each other along.


A friendly game of one on one... then again, the only fights I ever got into when I was growing up were on basketball courts...



This one shows how a healthy kid ought to start his day.  Look how happy he is!

And there you have it, some illustrations from what would've doubtless been the greatest child's workbook of all time (ever).