Illustration Friday ~ Fast
A fast rise to number one on the charts!
The album Thriller was released on November 30. 1982, and sold more than one million copies per week and currently remains the best selling album of all time.
Besides winning 8 Grammy Awards, Thriller cemented Jackson’s status as one of the biggest pop stars of the late 20th century, enabling him to break down racial barriers and gave the musical industry a new direction.
It would’ve been interesting to see where his latest This is It comeback tour would have taken him. We’ll never know. Michael Jackson….gone too fast.
This is it movie opening on October 28, 2009, for two weeks only. Link: HERE
Tags: a mouse in the house, children's illustration, digital art, fast, Halloween, Michael Jackson, roberta baird, this it it, thriller
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:44 am
Oh wow! What a fantastic illustration!! Absolutely “Thrilling!”
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 am
This makes me laugh, especially since the two male characters look ‘frighteningly’ like a couple of our friends, now aging amateur rock ’stars’. They really are lovely.
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:57 am
Wow! This is great…. I’ll never forget when this video came out.
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Hi Roberta!!! what an awesome piece…great take on the theme and cool artwork!!! you are amazing!!!
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Brilliant , poor ol’ Michael!
Great piece!
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
man! that RED, rb! that’s positively chillling how you did it!
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Ha ha!! Another great one Roberta! Love the colours!
October 24th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Ahahah, that’s so awesome! Love it!
October 24th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Roberta, this is so entertaining. You have an awesome way.
October 24th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
hahaha!! This is amazing!! Congrats!!
October 24th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
look at you – doing creepy! great characters wonderfully executed.
October 25th, 2009 at 6:21 am
what a wonderful illo and what a wonderful singer and what a great album.
October 25th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Roberta boy did this picture bring back wonderful memories for me and I’m sure many others as well. This is da Bomb!!!! WONDERFUL!!!!! Great work once again from a fantastic illustrator. I wanted to tell you honesty, You are the best. Thanks so much for your very encouraging words and we will be working the Lemonade stand together you and I! I brought some strawberries to go in there as well. Life happens and often. Thanks for making me laugh and cry at the same time. Sending you many hugs girly!
V
October 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
You gave me a thrill!!! Really great Roberta, you captured MicHael perfectly
October 25th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
great and very funny! Your blog is really good too (love mice that are drawn, but not those that actually move!), I loved sifting thru it.
October 25th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
wonderful – it looks just like he looked – very creepy and fun!
October 25th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I still remember watching it on the big ol’ TV in my grandmother’s house….imagine, San Francisco chinatown..it was an awesome experience to watch it. Thanks for the memories…and this is an awesome illo – looks just like him. I’ll never forget how he rocked it back then, and throughout the decades…you’re right…gone too fast. Great work Roberta!!!
October 26th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Creepy…would really like to see this as a Flash animation…get to work on that will ya???
October 26th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
awesome, roberta! great characters and color work!