Responsive Illustration Friday Part 2

HAd to start a new blog post as me and Blogger have fallen out on the other post as this website is useless and annoying but thats a rant for another day.


Friday 18th December

SOAR

1hour 30mins (ish)

So this weeks word is SOAR not sore or saw but soar like a bird. So thats what i have done but i have used a Saw as the body of the bird and just added wings. This is a little jab at the english language and its stupid rules to have different spellings for the same sounded word baffles me and is one of thousands of reasons i struggle like holy hell with reading and writing.

Friday 8th January 

TROPICAL

This weeks word is Tropical so the first things that came to mind was Pineapple, Toucan, Sun, Beach, and Cocktail., So my original plan was to draw a toucan on a beach drinking a cocktail from a pineapple but then i realised that  would take ages to do. So i thought out of the list i like toucans the most. So a toucan was the answer to this weeks word a tropical bird. As i was drawing some toucan ideas i realised i could not get the feet to look right, first i tried to hide them behind a pineapple but i dint like that i dea so on my final idea i just stood the bird in a paddling pool as i feel that best represents a tropical british summer.
I also tried to do more of my final design using hand draw methods as i feel that when i play around with my designs in photoshop they loose something, so on this one iv drawn the outline in pen and coloured it using promarkers, then only tweaked the brightness and contrast to get the colors bolder and brighter.

Friday 22nd January

ORBIT
So this weeks word is orbit and with this one im giving myself 2 hours in which to complete the illustration. I knew from the moment i saw the word I would like to draw a tribute to Tim Peaks the british astronaut, who is currently up on the international space station at the moment and he completed the first ever british space walk. So i knew i was going to illustrate a spaceman with a union flag on his arm looking at the world as he orbits the planet.

Drew the outline with my fine liner before scanning in to photoshop to add colour. 

Responsive Illustration Friday part 1

FRIDAY 30th NOVEMBER

Illustraion Friday 



I did a illustration for Illustration Fridays page, this weeks word was punch. I tried to do this in 1 hour so i drew out what i wanted to represent a punch so i did someone getting a punch in the face. First i drew it on to paper using a fine liner, scanned it in and opened it in photoshop.

 I first changed the levels making the blacks black and the white whiter, then using the fill tool and bush i coloured it in. I tried not to use very bright colours and by playing around with the transparence and fill i could get the desired tone i was looking for. Then i uploaded it to www.illustrationfriday.com.

FRIDAY 4th DECEMBER

WET

So this weeks word is wet. So i again gave myself just one hour to produces this week's task altho i think i may have gone over a little as i broke off to have some breakfast and coffee. The first thing that came to mind when thinking of wet was our beautiful british weather as we seem to have had lots of wet rain over the last few weeks.  SO i decided to draw a bird flying in the rain as that's what i see a lot birds with nowhere to go to get out of the rain. 

IN my sketchbook i drew this bird in the rain using a fine liner and scanned it into my computer so i could edit it and add colour using photoshop.

FRIDAY 11th December

 UNICORN 

So this weeks word is Unicorn and I have decided to spend a bit longer on my design for this one. I knew straight away I wanted to do something different instead of a standard looking unicorn. So as I was typing unicorn in to google to have a quick look at what others do to best show a unicorn's appearance, when in th edrop down box i saw unicycle so I knew then it had to be a corn on the cob mixed with a unicycle, or a corn graduating from university. 

So I set about drawing a unicorn bike, it did not take me too long to do the design it was penning all the corns kernals in that took the time. Then when I rubbed my pencil guild out the new rubber I used took away loads of the pen too so I had to repen the whole thing.

I just used photoshop to color the image with 3 layers one for the outline one for colour and one for the background and fairy/unicorn dust. 

After completing this and thinking i'm the most unique person in the world i went on to illustration friday's website and guess what someone else had the same idea as me boooooooooo, and they have finished theys off really well it looks very professional. I have tried to up my game a little myself by using the opacity of the brush to try give the unicorn magic dust some depth and 






Here I have done another illustration to try do something different for Unicorn, I have done a corn on the cob graduating from university, but i'm not sure where the rest on the world call university uni or not. if they don't then this could be a issue when trying to understand what i have done here.  Again i have drawn it out first using pencil and fineliner, scanned it into the computer and edited it in Photoshop, using layers to build up the image.

I feel I'm still annoyed I didn't submit the other design quicker and be the first, so that negative attitude has carried over to this design and i feel it shows as i don't like this very much at all. It feels half arsed and thrown together the compassion is rubbish and the drawing its self could be done to a much higher standard to give a better start.