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.