Illustration process part 3

Here is another example of the aforementioned technique. (see previous post)



sketch.



line drawing.



final.

(I copied the crowd on another layer, flipped the layer, and changed colors to make it look like a larger crowd.)

manga style illustration

I was digging through my old illustrations, and I came across this piece. I did a set of these manga style illustrations a few years ago for a Christian publisher. Unfortunately, this never saw the light of day, because of some kind of budget problem. I got paid, but the publication went under I think.

I kinda like this one.

Done with Adobe Illustrator

Illustration process part 2

Here is another 'anatomy of an illustration' piece.
I have a few different techniques that I use.
Here's one. This piece was done for LifeWay Christian Resources a while back. It was for a children's Sunday School curriculum I believe.



First, I did a sketch to present to the client.



After approval, I took the drawing into photoshop and adjusted the hue, saturation, and lightness (image/adjustments/Hue-Saturation) until I had a light blue looking sketch. Then I printed it.



I drew over top of the blue lines with a brush pen and fine-tipped fancy shmancy art marker. I buy the heavier, brighter stock paper, so that I can do this technique without the ink bleeding. Then, I scanned the black line drawing back into photoshop and further adjusted any little dots or mistakes I may have made in the drawing step. (in the case of this illustration, I didn't have any errors, as far as I can tell)



Then I exported the black line drawing to Illustrator, did a 'live trace' to convert the line drawing to vector, and then colored it, and added shadow shapes etc.

There. Finished.

Anatomy of an Illustration

Here is a time lapse of my creative process when creating an illustration.
This piece was commissioned by Plugged in magazine. Music by the Odd Numbers.




Basically, I did a sketch, and I imported the sketch into Illustrator. Then on a separate layer, I constructed the content mostly with the pen tool, brush tools and my Wacom tablet.
Then I imported the vector piece into Photoshop, and added layers of detail, shadows, highlights and textures.

New Threadless design ... Flying Fat Cat

New Threadless design ... Chasing Birds

New Threadless submission - Fun!

(I think I might have missed the mark when I added the word "FUN". I think it would have a better chance with just the characters.)

New Threadless design ... You are a Rock Star

Time lapse of the Learning Lamp Mural

I painted this in March 2009 for the Learning Lamp's Children's Book festival held at the ArtWorks in Johnstown PA.

Time lapse of the ACRP mural in Johnstown PA

here's a time lapse of a mural I painted in June 2009.

Berkey Excavating Inc. Mural

a time lapse video of a mural I painted for Berkey Excavating Inc. in Boswell PA.

painting

I did this painting for a local silent auction.

word.

art show in LA part 2

I had forgotten that I"m not very good at these sorts of things. There were about 500 people there. The evening was sort of difficult because I am not skilled at socializing- but, Oh well. My art was shown. That's the point.

art show in LA

this is me at the Royal T placing my painting (which wasn't completely finished by this point) Tonight is the art show- I'll be posting more afterwards.

Graffiti Mural for ACRP

BEFORE


AFTER

cafepress tshirts

here are 2 random tshirt designs.

visit my cafepress shops here:

Yinztown 1

Yinztown 2

"In the Music" Dance recital illustration

I have been illustrating the program cover/t-shirt design for Concepts Dance Studio for the last few years. Here is this year's program, "In the Music" (my 6 yr. old daughter will be in it)

Happy Mothers Day

video I animated for my wife for Mother's Day.

graffiti piece

another graffiti piece.

random

some quickies

Ode to ice cream


Smiling at the future


Bird Jam


Blue Like Cat


Birdy Note


Ghosts

Happy Easter!

Octopus mural time lapse video

Octopus mural

Here is another mural I painted last night at the Concepts Dance Studio in Johnstown PA. I am really on a mural-painting kick right now. It's so ultra-satisfying for me to paint large areas with spray paint. I doodled this octopus a while back on a sheet of paper, and my 6 year old daughter suggested that I add goggles. Brilliant.

Mural, Art Works in Johnstown PA

before.

after.

I painted the walls in preparation for the Learning Lamp's Children's Book Festival at the Art Works in Johnstown PA this weekend.

Ninja

A ninja.

another Graffiti sketch

Graffiti mural video

Time lapse video of the mural I painted for Concepts Dance Studio in Johnstown, PA.

World

blackbook graffiti sketch

Goth at the grocery store

Even Goths need groceries.

Illustration Friday - Pale

It is true... you do need to go outside every now and then.

Mariooooo...

my tribute to Super Mario Bros. (done with adobe illustrator and photoshop)

This was my submission for this week's drawergeeks.com topic, Classic Arcade.

Graffiti Mural for our local dance studio...

Holy crap this was so much fun. Montana paints and various spray caps.

This was for a local dance studio in Johnstown PA.
Concepts Dance Studio

Rabbit in the sky

My graffiti spot in my basement.

Lifted