Can You Guess What I’m Bringing Back?
Posted 30th of December 2012 — Blog News Sketchbook: illustration.
Step by Step – Crown of Thorns
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.)
New Illustration and Pattern
Posted 26th of May 2012 — Sketchbook: illustration, patterns.
I finished this illustration weeks ago but only just managed to post it here (like I mentioned in the last post, my internet connection is weird at the moment). Both parts of this, the type and the women where never intended to end up together. The women was a practice in shading and the phrase a practice in hand-drawn typography (which there’s actually a mistake on… don’t look!). I accidentally dragged the type onto the illustration canvas and well, liked the way it look! I love accidents that turn out well. The saying is a quote from Oscar Wilde – “You can never be overdressed or over-educated”. Kinda sums up my philosophy in life.
I’ve also added a pattern based on this to the patterns page. I actually really dig the drawing this way… it’s not technically great but I like the charm of this style and will probably be drawing some more things this way.
