sketches and such
Yet another addition to my food series!
Hopefully I’ll have time to set up an Etsy or something by Christmas so I can start selling these babies.
I have 2 more large paintings planned in this series, so keep your eyes peeled!
Also, this has been a crazy year for my family and I, so I am sad to say that I will not be able to have a comic a day month in 2013. The good news is that 2014 is just around the corner and I have no doubts that it’ll be an amazing year for everyone!
Recently I made a poster for the Ladies Night Anthology Launch Party
(which will be super fun, BTW)
so I thought, just for kicks, I’d walk ya’ll through that process:
STEP ONE: Sketches.
I sketched a few composition sketches, then a few character sketches, and finally I brought my favorite sketches into photoshop and laid them out like so:
Then I turned my lines blue, and brought the sketch into illustrator to get busy with the text. I found a font I liked, and used my typography skills to make the text flow just the way I wanted. When I was satisfied I printed out my blue lines, which were now ready for inking:
After inking I scanned it in black and white and did a quick color job where I added a few details.
After a test print at size (see above) I corrected a few small issues and then sent the final image off to promote our amazing party!:
After months of working on other projects (and possibly procrastinating) I finally made a few more pieces for my food series!
Lemon Rosemary:
Eggplant:
eventually I hope to put these guys and a few others up for sale as prints, Lemon Rosemary and Eggplant are designed to be 4×6 prints you’d hang alongside a larger 8×10.
I loved loved loved Mario as a kid, so I decided to do this quick little illustration of one of the characters I so admired.
I’m hoping to do a series of prints based on Italian foods, mostly because I would like to hang stuff like this in my own kitchen. This one is based on Minestrone Soup. (it’s missing a few ingredients, but I wanted the focus to really be veggies)
I did a test run on some Canson Infinity paper and the print quality is AMAZING! It looks just like it’s a real watercolor, I couldn’t be more thrilled!