Wednesday 30 November 2016

Thursday 24 November 2016

Illustration process breakdown


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Exhibition tomorrow night, 6:30pm Charlestown Arts Centre.

This is an example of the steps that went into making the images for the exhibition, with the one exception here that I did the rough sketch (step 2) in Photoshop (for all the others I used two coloured pencils or a 2h pencil) The pencil stage (step 3)is usually covered by the inking, but for this I wanted to tweak the printed rough sketch before transferring it to the blending card (the high quality paper I use for the copics).

Step 1: thumbnail (quick planning stage).
Step 2: laying it all out rough.
Step 3: clean up
Step 4: inking (and adding colours)

Wednesday 23 November 2016

No One Shouted Stop - exhibition announcement


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Friday 25th November, 6:30pm

There are two presentations going on at the same time.

My exhibition is six images (plus the development sketches) based on or inspired by segments from the book "No One Shouted Stop" by local writer and journalist John Healy.

Saturday 19 November 2016

[Healy Weekend] - New Heroes - Pencil stage


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Visual Exhibition: Friday 25th November 2016.
Another sneak peak at the images for the upcoming exhibition.

This is a pencil stage. I arranged the composition in Photoshop and printed it very lightly and drew over it with pencil. I then used a light box (actually my old animation disk and a strip light) to trace it onto better paper. The finished image will be on display in the exhibition.

I will post the images after the exhibition has finished.

Thursday 17 November 2016

[Healy Weekend] - New Heroes - rough drawing stage


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The first stage (after thumbnailing) of an image I'm working on for the upcoming exhibition. I found working directly on paper too slow and caused problems that were too difficult to fix.
For this one I planned it out in Photoshop and then printed (and later transferred it again to better paper) to be inked properly with pens. A very convoluted way to produce these images, which is taking me longer to produce.
The whole thing is reminding me why I prefer working directly into Photoshop. I use to do it this way when preparing an image to be scanned.

The finished image might not appear in the exhibition. I will see how that goes. I might tease with more of these rough images in the run up to the exhibition. I will post the finished work after the exhibition has ended.

Saturday 12 November 2016

Doodling - Nov 12


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A late night doodle in Photoshop before bed (last night).
Based on Marty McFly's mum (1955) from Back to the Future.