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1. Initial sketch. 2. Refined sketch. I was asked to change the roses to records to reflect the client’s husband’s interest in music. 3. Ink drawing. 4. Marker colors. 5. Final Photoshopped image.
Read More »January 30th, 2012 | Posted in Processes | No Comments
This was a commission from a good friend of mine, a tribute to her husband’s guitar and other interests of his – surfing, fishing, music, and family. She married a man, in other words. She wanted his first guitar to be the centerpiece of the image. He also appreciates Day of the Dead-styled imagery, so the piece was done with that in mind. For some reason I thought it would be cute (?) to do [...]
Read More »December 28th, 2011 | Posted in Art Comments, Main | No Comments
Some more Day of the Dead loveliness. The girl and her outfit were inspired by some of the people I saw at the Day of the Dead festivals earlier this year.
Read More »December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Art Comments, Main, Prints | No Comments
1. On a whim one day I decided to do a one-shot image of the black-haired dancer girl from my “If This Hat is Missing…” piece. At this point I didn’t think any further ahead than that. Uh, I mean it was only the first step in a grand artistic scheme. I’ll edit that first part out later. . 2. After finishing the above image, I figured I might as well do images of all [...]
Read More »December 10th, 2011 | Posted in Processes | No Comments
I decided to do one-shot posters of all the girls from my “If This Hat is Missing…” piece. It started with just a simple drawing of “Mirela,” which grew to drawings of all of them, and then backgrounds, and then fully-realized poster designs (with hand-drawn type) that were artificially aged in Photoshop. There were clearly a lot of steps to the project, and a tremendous amount of work in each (times four), but I think [...]
Read More »December 10th, 2011 | Posted in Art Comments, Main | No Comments