Here are the four final illustrations I’ve been working on the past few weeks. They are a combination of watercolor, India ink, and colored pencil. I’m not sure if the book they are a part of will ever get off the ground, but we’ll see 🙂
Category: Character
Little Inventor – Color Comps
I’m in the middle of working up some final illustrations for a children’s book that I wrote last summer. I’m hoping to shop it around to publishers soon, but first need a few sample finished illustrations. The finals will be done in watercolor, but one of the nice things about the digital era is that it’s relatively easy to do a mock-up of the colors in Photoshop. These four were all done relatively quickly, so they are admittedly sloppy.
I’ll post the finals here as I finished them.
Analog Value Comps
Most times when I have to do a value comp it means I open up Photoshop. But with my recent work on my children’s book illustrations I decided to go totally analog. Here are some pictures I snapped while working. They are done in charcoal, graphite and Ebony Pencil.
More to work on these to come.
P.S. if you have any great connections in the publishing world I’d LOVE to hear from you 🙂
Mini Painting Method Demo
Today I was working on another watercolor test and I decided to snap some pictures along the way. First I layed down a light yellow wash over the whole thing – to help unify the colors.
Then I start painting in local colors.
After that I add some shadows and value where needed.
Then it’s just a matter of fine-tuning,
To finish it all off I work with colored pencil.
Paper Tests
I’ve been testing out a ton of watercolor paper over the past two days. I thought I might as well post my little demo paintings. I’m really excited to start working on traditional stuff again!
Halitosis
Happy April Fools! This design may seem like a joke but it’s for real! Threadless hosted a goofy tongue depressor design challenge on April 1st. If you guys get a chuckle out of it, I’d love to have your votes 😀
