These little French Bulldog pups are named Remy and Louie. They were matching 2″x3″ miniature portraits done for a client.
Ho Hey – The Lumineers
Here is the final art for the Lumineers illustration. It has an overall nice mood. I think that the band’s music has a warm, flowery sound (okay, maybe that sounds weird but that’s what I think). In my original sketch, there were some flower elements floating around in the composition. On a whim, I looked up the “Hey Ho” track video on YouTube for some visual inspiration.
As I watched, I was excited to see that they actually HAD roses in the video. So my gut feeling, as weird as it might have seemed, was correct! ‘Nuff said, I quickly changed the floaty flowers to hanging roses and warmed up the tones a bit. I’m really happy with the way this turned out. The warm ‘n’ cozy color palette is something that I’ve been trying to achieve for a while. I hope you like it!
Around the studio…
This week I’m working on an illustration of folky rock up and comers, The Lumineers. I’ve been sketching and re-sketching, working out the line and color combinations. It’s been taking a little longer than usual because I decided to take a few days off of the studio last week and now I’m feeling behind! I’m hoping to have the illo finished this week in order to send out an emailer later this week or early next week week and a printed mailer the week after that. Promotion never ends!
Here’s a sketch and a loose color combo below. Oh, and also a reference photo of the band which I grabbed off of the internet. I love the hats. And I love the her smiley face. She was smiling in every photo! A refreshing thing to see these days.
Enjoy!
Color study
Process
I’m in the midst of working on some new promotional pieces. One of them is a portrait of the late famous Moonshiner, Popcorn Sutton. Here, you can see some screen shots of the sketch and a color study. Yup, there is a lot of tweaking and fine line stuff to do, but I generally save the details like that for the final art. The color study is just a guideline for me. I will post the final when it’s finished. Enjoy!
Color study
Line Art
Hello 2013 – Happy New Year!
Here I am, back from the holiday vacation, refreshed and inspired ready to take on the new year! It’s great because I was feeling a little stuck and un-creative for a few weeks. Starting things and spinning my wheels. A mixture of burnout and overburdened with the typical of end of the year running around like a chicken. I guess I needed a break to recharge.
Me, wearing a ridiculous hat, for no apparent reason.
I’m working on some new promotional material that I’ll post as soon as I am able. I’ve uploaded some new sketches to sketchbook area of the site. I’ve got some plans in the works to revamp and improve the site and will keep you posted on that as it happens. In the mean time I thought that I’d share some things with you all. They are not really “resolutions” as far as new years resolutions go, more like an on-going list of ideas and things that I have been working on and will continue to work on to better myself. I just thought I’d share:
(In no particular order)
- Accept uncertainty. There is no use worrying about things I can’t control – it’s just a waste of energy.
- Choose to be happy! Don’t be negative, or let negative people suck me in. Their misery is not my problem.
- Enjoy life more and be grateful for what I have.
- Be more productive.
- Be healthier.
- Don’t let other people’s crazy drive me crazy.
- Try to save money.
- Draw more.
- Get back into nature and be around animals more.
- Be present.
I hope you all have a Happy, healthy, positive, grateful, productive, fortunate, present 2013!