Wedding Invites - Progress

Wedding Invites - Barn & Church

More work for Kendel's invites!

Wedding Invites - Rough Sketches

So, as I mentioned in my last post, I've been commissioned to illustrate a friend's invitations for her wedding next August. This has been kind of a daunting project for me as it's the first time I've ever undertaken a project for someone else (and one I am being paid to take on - doubly daunting!). Having never been to art school AND having given up on art in my teenage years only to pick it back up again nearly ten years later, I don't have too much confidence in myself as an artist (and wow, what a horrible sentence). So, though this project is kind of scary, I'm hoping the successful completion of it will give me that little extra boost of confidence I need. Also, I'll have something REAL to show for all my drawing and doodling! Finally!

The above is just a bunch of doodles I did while only half paying attention to what I was doing. I was trying to get a bit of a feel for the text I'm going to be using for the invitations. Messy, yes. I've come up with something a little better since this. And also - yes, I did absentmindedly misspell my middle name. Whoops.

Like the bride in the previous post, this groom was also for practice. What I learned from this is that I need to learn how to draw suits, as well as figure out what the heck the groom's arms/hands are going to be doing in the final drawing. I often end up shoving my character's hands behind their backs because hands are such a pain in the rear to draw, but it's such an unnatural stance.

As the bride and groom will be driving away in an old-fashioned truck after the wedding, they thought it would be kind of cool to feature that truck in the invites. I drew this a few months ago when I had no idea what the actual truck looked like, but this ended up being pretty close. If only I could photoshop the little b&g outta there I might be able to get away with using it, after I spiffed up the image a bit.

Wedding Invites - Bride

So, I'm designing a friend's invitations for her upcoming wedding! My first actual commission. Exciting! This is a practice drawing for the "bride" - the final drawing of the bride will feature her in her *actual* wedding dress, which is a lot more detailed than this simple one I've drawn here. I'll probably use this speech bubble, though, as I really like the text.

Work in Progress

It isn't complete yet, but I haven't posted anything in so long that I thought a little "work-in-progress" post might keep things up-to-date a bit (for the record, however, I haven't made any art in months):



This is the second piece in a three or four piece series.

Beware!

...and with a touch of shadow:

More Sketchbook Scrawlings

Sketchbook Stuff

Drawing for this week's Illustration Friday - the word is "packed". Thus, houses packed together. Coincidentally, I drew this today, then realized it fit the theme for this week.

Also, some quick scrawlings of archways:

Illustration Friday: Routine

Walking home from the bus-stop after a long day of school. This has been part of my routine nearly forever (really, I'm entering my fifth year of post-secondary now, will it ever end?).

This is a digitally coloured and added-to sketch I did nearly two years ago, during a period where I was obsessed with drawing all autumn-inspired things (for the original, click here). I didn't think I was going to participate in IF this week, but then I found this sketch and decided to experiment on it a little.

Illustration Friday: Detached

So, I watched A Brief History of Time last night, and I've sort of had space and black holes on the brain since then. Thus, my interpretation of this week's Illustration Friday topic/word.

First Snow

I know it's still summer and I probably shouldn't be getting ahead of myself, but there's already a chill to the air, colder nights are starting to creep in, and those puffy, omnious fall clouds are beginning to fill up the sky. Fall is my favourite season (trips to the pumpkin farm, jumping in leaves, backyard bonfires, colourful scenery, hikes, dressing cozy!), but I dread winter - except for those first few snows. You know, before everything turns to brown mush.

Anygoo, this is a handmade collage with the colour applied using PhotoPaint.

Illustration Friday: Sail

This is my first submission ever to Illustration Friday (the theme of the week, as indicated by the title, is "sail"). This process was a lot of fun (and a little aggravating, technical woes and such), and I'm looking forward to participating twice a month or so.

Neighbourhood

To answer the question in the comments, my technique for this was pretty basic (I'm a little apprehensive to reveal it as I'm afraid it will take away the "magic", so to speak, but it is really quite simple). I used some Japanese patterned paper I picked up from the art store for the background, which I scanned (it comes in packages, you get about 12-15 different patterns for $12.00). Then, I drew two different sets of buildings and scanned them in separately. I then masked the two building sets, and copied them onto the file containing the patterned paper. I moved the buildings to where I wanted them, combined them with the background (or flattened the layers), and then changed the colour of the background. Ta-da! Pretty simple, but time consuming.

Pink night

Also, in purple: