11/17/11 10:23 PM
Finished up the "Summer" Piece. I'm really happy with this one. It was more of a challenge than I was anticipating. I had to try to maintain a certain level of visual consistency while illustrating a season that could be described as the opposite of the first one. So among other things I had to reinterpret the stark but vibrant palette from the
"Winter" into something more lush and warm. (You can see the two pieces together
here) I think it is pretty successful, can't wait to get started on the other two.
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Tags: childrens, Finished Illustration, Unpublished, Stock
08/28/11 09:30 PM
For a while now I've wanted to participate in
Illustration Friday. Each week, a new topic is announced and anyone can submit an illustration on that theme. This past Friday's theme was "Disguise", with a further quote from Margaret Atwood: "Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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I went for a somewhat straightforward take on the quote, hoping that the absurdity of a literal interpretation would carry it. I also wanted to contrast the relaxed, confident pose of the clothing shell with a scared, overwhelmed expression. I envisioned it a little moodier, bordering on creepy, but my somewhat cartoonish drawing style works against that. Not sure how successful this one is, what do you think?
The sketch:
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Tags: Illustration Friday, Finished Illustration, Unpublished
08/08/11 09:42 PM
Very happy with this one. I went for a brighter palette and more chromatic shading than I usually work with to give it a more fun, juvenile look. I like the results, I may even experiment with more hi-chroma shading in my "adult" work.
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07/17/11 12:40 PM
I Finished the new illustration and I'm really happy with it. My biggest challenge was balancing the layers of cloud textures, cloud line work, etc. in the building reflections. In the end I had to sacrifice the textural work and reduce the opacity of the cloud line work to get it to read as reflections on mirrored glass. What do you think, did I hit the right balance?
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07/10/11 02:17 PM
Working on a new stock image on the theme of optimism in an uncertain economy. I've had this image of a mirrored-glass building reflecting clearing skies amidst storm clouds in my head for a while now. I started sketching on paper before inking it in Illustrator, it's going to take the final color and shading to make the "clearing sky" building stand out. Here is the sketch and the Illustrator linework version:
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Tags: Sketch, Stock, Inked Linework, Unpublished
07/06/11 10:39 PM
Finished the Sons of Anarchy piece. Overall I'm happy with it. As a technical exercise I succeeded in pushing the level of detail too far- but this has helped me immensely in finding the point at which things break down within my style and more is simply more. I hope to incorporate some of the lessons I've learned here in the direction I take moving forward.
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I included some detail images, these still are less than half the resolution of the original:
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Tags: Detail, Stock, Finished Illustration, Unpublished