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New Year Resolutions!

Hello beautiful people! It’s been just about FOR-EVER since I’ve posted anything on this here blog.

But I think I had a pretty decent excuse or two, I did get hitched last year after all:

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So, anyways, it’s 2016 and one of my resolutions is to post just one sketch here a week. My hope is that one post a week will turn into one or two finished pieces for my portfolio which is feeling a bit neglected right now.

For my first post of 2016 here is my humble offering:

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Wil and I watched one of John Mulaney’s comedy specials tonight and I felt inspired to do a doodle that looks just a hint like him.

Stay tuned to see what I come up with next time!

-KayPee

Poster Process

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:
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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:
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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!:
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Is it October yet?

I have so many fall feelings! I just needed to get them out on paper!fallfeelings harvestspirit

Teenagers

I drive my brother to school every morning, and one of my favorite activities while I’m stuck in traffic is to check out the crazy fashion kids wear these days… sometimes I even sketch it..
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Minestrone

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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)

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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!