Today I’ve continued to try and improve my illustration by choosing an illustrative style for a design. The theme was ‘added extras’ so I wanted to create an illustrative montage, quite a common technique, I imagine originating from pop art. This was my initial illustration.
However, I found that the black and white didn’t quite work with the design so I needed to add colour. Also as the design needed a heading and strap line with it the text on the illustration made it too busy.
The illustration progressed to this:
I again enjoyed bringing it into Photoshop to add texture and a watercolour feel. I like how it has a nice friendly feel to it so was fairly pleased with the result.
I followed the style throughout the page by creating the following illustrations representing various things.
I love Photoshop brushes and now I love illustration so I really enjoy combining the two. Finally I couldn’t resist over stylising the main illustration as an experiment.
I’m still planning on doing some artwork around the chav/knife theme. Also I want to buy some ‘how to draw characters’ books to try and improve my character drawing skills.
I don’t know what it’s for but I love it.
it was for a holiday extras email.
Excellent site that has developed and improved on each visit.
University money well spent!!