Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Illustration

As an illustrator I have more than a dozen children’s books in circulation. I also wrote, designed, produced and mocked-up many of those. In addition, I have created a number of independent illustrations for clients in both the print and web industries. Furthermore, I spent quite a lot of time in stationary, working on gift bags, greeting cards and other related items.

Selection of Client Based Illustrations


Digital Art

This is the science of art. Here the boundaries of modern illustration techniques are washed away, leaving the inner constructs of the human mind open to run free.
In this section, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator are my preferred mediums. I have devoted the last ten years to mastering these programs. Hunting down ways to achieve the look and feel of a traditional painting using only digital paint, photo’s and texture. I have found that using digital media to achieve a traditional looking piece not only saves time (no clean up required), but money as well (less supplies). This can cut down on overhead and gives an artist more time for creativity and increases efficiency.
In a later section you will see some examples of art using traditional mediums such as acrylic and watercolor paints.

Concept Sketches




Photo Manipulation


Traditional Art

Without question, the most beautiful pieces of artwork throughout the world have come from traditional media. Find a slab of bark, some crushed berries and some horsehair. That’s all you need to go anywhere and paint anything. The simplicity of it is artistic in itself.



*The first painting, "The Torn Hat" is a reproduction of Thomas Sully's original.