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running

runningjournal

this is a page from my journal ^_^ due to a variety of things that are shifting my focus, i will be posting on tues, thurs and saturday only for the next few months. have a happy week!

fit

sketchyness

anatomy of an illustration

i’ve had a lot of people ask how i make my images and if i do commissions (yes, i do!) so i thought i would share my process.

a bit ago, a client contacted me to create an image of her and her hubby for their first wedding anniversary. so cute! i love those kinds of jobs and i felt very honored to be a part of their special day. she gave me some direction – their honeymoon to greece, them walking together, and sent me a bunch of photos. we agreed on a price, which included a couple rounds of revisions and i sent off preliminary drawings.

after i sent these to her, she told me what she liked – the look between them in the first, the composition of the third, except it felt unbalanced on the left. oh, and that she wanted her black boots (hehe) and i had put a cat in her hubby’s bag (third), but they actually have a dog! i revised the sketches and sent her the following sketch.

this made her very happy so there was only one revision.

from here i took my line drawing and in flash added a layer over it and went in with color. i don’t usually have any specific color in mind, i am fairly intuitive with colors. after looking at her photos, i knew the kinds of outfits both of them wore and i generally tried to pick colors that would unify them and the entire piece.

after this, i take the drawing into photoshop. i add highlights, gradients and this is where i spend time playing with overlays of color and really finalizing the image.

and voila! she was very happy and so was i! ^_^

quickly

teenage dream

uncaged

dance machine

today i thought i would share something different! i usually start my full color sketches with a basic line drawing, and over that i ‘paint’ the colors digitally. so here are some fun quick sketches… i usually do a few of these before i settle on one to color.

have a great day!

yosemite

we went to yosemite national park this weekend. it was lovely and i sketched a lot, these are just some of my sketches! have a great short week 🙂

hero

a fun little sketch – hope you have a great week!