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blue blood and liquid gold: shading
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I am trying to guesstimate how many hours this illustration will take. Click on the image to see detail. So here, I am continuing to create shapes and while keeping my swatches palette handy, I am choosing colors that may mimic pleats or shadows but I am staying true to the original drawing. At this point, I usually start thinking about the background image. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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blue blood and liquid gold: new illustration
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I haven't doodled as much as I should have this week but it was a crazy one. I did sit down for a moment with my sister to watch an episode of Scrubs and scketched. A few things for fun. The initial sketch done in pen. *. A few layers of Prismacolor. I realized that most of my Prismacolor. I'm truly obsessed with it. It's a milk-based paint that dries to the most perfect velvety matte finish and shows no brushmarks. It's kind of like gouache. But much easier to handle. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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blue blood and liquid gold: poster illustration progress
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Click on image to view large. So my leaping guy now has some color and i am adding some shadows and highlights in the buildings. Was thinking about adding his own shadow on the buildings but I feel he's too high up in the sky for that to look 'real'. This isn't the final color palette which gives me a bit of anxiety. I've got more than 10 colors in there already and I have no idea how I'm going to simplify it down to just 4. I just don't like simple. I like complex and detailed. May 11, 2008 at 6:31 PM.
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blue blood and liquid gold: work in progress - book cover
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Work in progress - book cover. The illustration that I am working on now is for the book. By John David Morley. The assignment was to create two book covers, one that relies on image and another one that's type-dominant. The first step was brain-storming about the concept of the image. I decided to illustrate the novel's main characters as I imagined them, riding freely on their bikes through the antique streets and squares of Amsterdam. Updates of coloring is to come in the following week. Labels: work ...
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blue blood and liquid gold: May 2008
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Click on image to view large. So my leaping guy now has some color and i am adding some shadows and highlights in the buildings. Was thinking about adding his own shadow on the buildings but I feel he's too high up in the sky for that to look 'real'. This isn't the final color palette which gives me a bit of anxiety. I've got more than 10 colors in there already and I have no idea how I'm going to simplify it down to just 4. I just don't like simple. I like complex and detailed. Click to see larger.
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blue blood and liquid gold: February 2008
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I haven't had a chance to update recently, but while rummaging through some old photo hosting sites, I was able to dig up an drawing I did that I really loved and spent a lot of time on. Thankfully, I recorded the process of it because it does make me very happy to see it. It was Art-Nouveau inspired. Done on vellum in graphite, watercolor, and Prismacolor markers. The initial photographed sketch. My fabulous illustration table. Messy. Ok, finally done! Stay tuned for my next illustration of one of my fa...
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blue blood and liquid gold: Tiredness
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Typographic Investigations class is driving me bananas! In between lettering exercises and . well. lettering exercises, I'm ready for my hand to unclentch and uncramp. Managed to squeeze in a little self-portrait. Done from my glazed-over reflection in the mirror. Large eyes notwithstanding its great. February 20, 2008 at 11:27 PM. Enlarged i should say, but thats what makes it have a heightened sense of emotion. February 20, 2008 at 11:28 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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blue blood and liquid gold: Book Cover Progress
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So I have decided to color this drawing digitally in Illustrator. It's taking an amazingly long time but I've got another week before deadline so I actually feel good about taking my time to do it carefully. I am working in transparent layers of about 45% while mapping out shapes using the pen tool. I decided to keep the palette pretty neutral because it seems to fit very well with the book's subject matter. The next step would be bringing the image into Photoshop and kicking up the line art a little.
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blue blood and liquid gold: new drawing
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A couple of people have asked me how I made my book cover illustration so I will go through the steps and hopefully it will help those who are curious about achieving the same effect. I really love the look of water color, but find it very hard to control and very easy to mess up. I must admit I've ruined a few drawings before while working with watercolors, when I realized that a wash has flown into a another that was not yet dry. Now if only life came with a command z button! It's smart to name layers ...
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blue blood and liquid gold: March 2008
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I am trying to guesstimate how many hours this illustration will take. Click on the image to see detail. So here, I am continuing to create shapes and while keeping my swatches palette handy, I am choosing colors that may mimic pleats or shadows but I am staying true to the original drawing. At this point, I usually start thinking about the background image. I really love the look of water color, but find it very hard to control and very easy to mess up. Now if only life came with a command z button!
