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Well it's a new year and time to kick it in gear.
I've decided to challenge myself this year by picking a subject for each month and posting 13 images on the 13th day of the month.
This month I am posting 13 portraits from a freelance job that I finished in December of last year.
They were created in Adobe Illustrator CS2.
I also colored some of them so that they could use them as poster art.
Not sure what I'll be posting for February.
I turned my comic story into a nook book.
It's great for kids of all ages.
I'm not a salesman so I'll just straight up say I'd love to see it sell a few copies.
So check it out if you're interested and/or tell some one who has an e reader and either has kids who like funny stories or like funny stories themselves.
It's on Barnes and Noble here...
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/step-by-step-robert-snyder/1106355593?ean=2940013218901&itm=1&usri=robert%2bsnyder
I have been working on new samples for my portfolio.
I am going to rework my portfolio site to be broken into specific sections.
Traditional art
Digital art
Hybrid art - combining traditional and digital methods
and
Product design
These are examples of the Hybrid style.
They were hand inked and digitally colored.
I've been subbing at a local high school lately and these are pages that I filled while the kids worked in class.
It's the last day of March of the sketchbooks.
I was able to post almost every day.
Here's the last one for March.
I have been thinking about a halloween project lately for myself, and a spring project for a potential client so My brain mashed them together and came up with Gnombies. Zombie Gnomes.
I'll be inking these as practice for the halloween project.
I am in need of new business cards as I make a concentrated effort to go out and meet more people and make them aware of my business.
Below are several examples I came up with today.
Let me know which one is your favorite.
Which ones don't work.
Or anything that could be done to improve one or more.
Click on the image to see it full size.
I inked this over the week end.
I believe I'll add color for fun.
Individually they might make for some fun/cool stickers or tattoos.
I received some feedback on this image and made some changes.
I used Illustrator to color the Zombunnies.
And then put a noise layer over it in photoshop.
Now it's time to cultivate the next idea.
This weeks word is Stir.
The pirates in the foreground are trying not to stir the water as they sneak past the guard.
I am currently using illustrator to color this image with a limited pallet to create a nice night scene.
Beware the Tides of March.
Adventure Mouse has discovered that that nice soft landing spot has it's downside.
For some reason I decided to draw a zombie walking in nose deep water.
In doing my research for things going on in March besides the typical Holidays it came to my attention that March 30th is The birthday of my favorite artist Vincent van Gogh.
So I decided to make him the subject of this months promo mailer.
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I took my Micron pen and inked the aardvark.
I will be coloring this sketchbook page either with markers or watercolor and colored pencil.
Here's another blown up and inked sketch from the old sketchbook.
He and a few more are all a part of my next e-mail news letter.
They'll all be in color.
Aardvarks and Leprechauns!
Today is a Two Fer.
I drew these while subbing at a middle school.
Here's day 8's sketchbook page.
I bought a cheap pack of blending stumps at Michaels to play with the other day.
I took one of the van Gogh sketches from my sketchbook and inked him with a micron pen.
I'm going to take him into Illustrator and add some flat color.
Dr. Suess revisited.
I went back and inked the sketch that I did on the good doctors birthday.
It was inked with a brand new Pigma brush pen.
I can't say I recommend them.
The brush is already going bad.
I'll have to go back to learning to control a real brush with ink.
After inking I went in and added some flat color with Photoshop.
Day 3 of sketchbook month.
Space cats, Van Gogh, and assorted heads.
Today's sketches.
Today is Doctor Seuss' Birthday.
I was subbing at a high school so I didn't have any reference to draw from so I decided to draw a cat in a hat holding a fish in a bowl and thing 1 and thing 2.
Now that I am home I can look up some reference to influence the inking.
I also did some more sketches of Vincent van Gogh.
Some sketches of Vincent van Gogh for a personal project.
He's done and on his way To Miami for a well deserved vacation.
Thanks to those who had suggestions for improvement.
As you can see I added the candy cane guard rail to the foreground to add a little bit of depth.
And I drew up my own penguin to go along for the ride.
This is a work in progress.
It started out with this sketch from my sketchbook.
An old guy on a vespa because I was searching for a motorcycle image on the web for a client drawing and some vespa images came up.
This is where I am at so far...
Since it's winter and Xmas time I decided to portray the guy as Santa.
I didn't want to do Santa in his work clothes, he doesn't deliver toys on a vespa after all, so I put him in his street clothes.
Then I decided that he would be headed for a well deserved vacation, thus the Dec 26th calendar page and Miami sign.
I'm working on the background now.
You can see that I have some snow drifts back there.
I'm thinking that I'll have to add something in the far background to breakup the blue sky.
I might put his workshop back there.
I think I may add a trailer loaded with luggage being pulled behind the vespa to add to the going on vacation feel.
Let me know what you all think of the image so far.
I'm looking for comments on color, contrast, detail, does anything look "off," that kind of thing.
Lately when I do art for myself it's with traditional media. Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink or pencil.
I like having a finished piece of art to look at and hold. It's a nice feeling of accomplishment.
Most of my client work ends up being digital, even if it starts out being drawn traditionally.
So I have been trying to figure out a "style" to call my own when doing digital art for myself that wil hopefully appeal to future clients.
With that in mind, I was flipping through my sketchbook yesterday and found a really rough sketch of a head.
When it comes to digital work I prefer Illustrator over Photoshop. I like creating flat/graphic areas of color over trying to make the figure/object look 3 dimensional.
So I drew up the head in Illustrator and played around with variations of it.
Here it is...
The 4 on the left are just changes in facial features and their positions.
The others are the Base 1 head with variations of facial hair and accessories.
After doing the pirate guy my daughter wanted to see him with a beard so I came u with this version...
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Nice! Has a sort of Maurice Sendak feel.