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Step by Step – Crown of Thorns

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Posted 5th of July 2012 — Sketchbook: illustration, patterns, walkthroughs.

I haven’t had much time for personal work this week – I’m working on so many projects at once I finally know what it feels like to be a designer After a week or so of looking at web designs my eyes need a break from grids and columns so I decided to work on an illustration. Yeah, you know you’re a graphic designer when you talk breaks from designing for a living by designing for fun. I thought an animation would be a fun way of displaying how I did this! Unforunately it’s a little over sharpened but the final art work doesn’t look like that.

I decided to turn that halo around his head into a pattern (yes his, I used one of my favourite models Andrej Pejic as a reference). Since I already had the animation toolbar open in PhotoShop for some reason I animated this too. Don’t ask.

The (non-animated) pattern has been added to the floral category. As always I’d love to see if you make use of it

(Just a small thing I hate to tack on the end of this post but – I have updated the Terms of Use so that linking back to this website is now a requirement. Why? Well most people where already linking back which is great. However, every now and then I’d stumble across a website that didn’t link back yet stressed people had to link to them. The kicker was that lots of their resources where derived from my work! It rubbed me up the wrong way so I’ve edited the Terms of Use. If you used something of mine prior to this date don’t feel like you have to update and link to here – I don’t expect anyone to go to all that trouble.)