Archive for the ‘illustration’ Category
This month’s Featured Artist is Patrick Loehr. I came upon his work in an accidental way by picking up his first children’s book, Mucumber McGee and the Half-Eaten Hot Dog
in a bargain bin.
I liked the artwork from the start and read maybe a page or two at the store and decided it was definitely worth a purchase. I got it home and read it to my son. For any of those that have a two year old, you can understand that it isn’t easy to keep one still long enough to finish a book, even one so short, but he was attentive the entire time. As for me, I loved not only the illustration style but the writing as well. I highly recommend picking it up whether you have kids or not.
I don’t have it yet, but Patrick has a second children’s book Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cover, dark, Edward Gorey, interview, victorian
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Here is a new illustration project that I recently did for my own family. I am giving the chance to win a similar customized illustration to one lucky reader. See the bottom of this post for details.
This idea came to me out of my love of typography and particularly illustrated style. It started from sketching the name of my son before he was born. I think we were still in the process of deciding on a name, just playing around passing time. I had come up with something that I liked and thought, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: contest, custom, family, names, print, typography
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Here is yet another random drawing from my stream of consciousness. These are essentially just an exercise in putting down my imagination to paper. There is no story or reason to anything, just simple drawing. I definitely recommend giving it a try, and don’t hold back!
Click here for a double sized image, to see it in full detail.
Tags: drawing, odd, stream of consciousness
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This will probably be a fairly random bonus post as I do them, but here is the first drawing from a stream of consciousness. Most of the stuff on here is quite random, just passing the time while I do other stuff. I just filled an entire sketchbook page. You can click on the image to see a much larger size, so you can see more detail.
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Tags: consciousness, drawing, pencil, random
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Now that the Prisoner graphic novel is finished on here, I would like to fill you in on the process I used to create the comic’s illustrations. And again, if you haven’t visited the author, Dean’s website yet, you really should. Now, I should say, this process is by no means the ‘correct’ way and certainly isn’t the traditional way, it is just the way that I happened to go through it. I very likely would change some things in the future, if I happen to do any more comics. And by the way, if you enjoyed this comic and would like to see more (or really hated and never want me to do it again, goshdarndit!), let me know through the comments at the bottom of this post, or send me a message. If you want to skip past all the wordiness, here is the link to the video demonstrating my process.
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Tags: brush, comic, Freehand, graphic novel, inking, pencilling, Photoshop, Prisoner, process, short story, tutorials, vidcast, video
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