Hey folks! The Haunted Legs project is over! Lots of people have been asking me how I came up with the ideas, so I thought it was worth posting some sample sketch pages. This is how I worked out all my ideas for the days. There were lots of ideas I didn’t use (see the last example).
I will be traveling in Europe for the next 3 weeks so I doubt I will post much, but I am bringing my sketchbook – so expect some drawings when I return at the end of the month!
Hey everyone! My blog has suffered lately due to my Daily Haunted Legs posts! Hopefully you are all enjoying it.
A few people have sent me requests for original Haunted Legs artwork. Although I currently don’t have time for commissions, I thought I’d give one away today! Head over to my Facebook Fanpage and comment on the picture below and you’ll be entered to win! I will choose a winner on Monday (7.23) so hang in there and keep your fingers crossed!
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 🙂
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.
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 🙂
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.
