A more recent piece…
Graphite on Illustration Board
5x8in Acrylic Inks on Illustration Board
Fun. Of course. Acrylic inks are kinda like watercolors but you can layer a lot faster. Its also the bad part about it. If you don’t work wet enough, you will get streaks. I need more practice with it though to say for sure.
Here is a vector illustration I just finished. I probably clocked in around 10 hours on this. Most of it was tinkering with little details towards the end. It came out almost exactly how I envisioned it, which is sort of a first. Take a peek at some of the process, from sketch to finish…
So a little run through for those that like to read. The original idea was sketched out on a cleaning rag at work, sketched in my sketchbook, scanned in, vectorized outline, printed out a copy, mapped out values, scanned back in, vectorized, added textures, thrown into photoshop, adjusted levels and added the stripes on a color dodge layer at low opacity… phew! And that was it. A lot of breaks in between to refresh the vision.
I might, at some point in the future, add some text. Maybe prints? I don’t know.
Here is another vector illustration I did for a commission that fell through. Same process as always. And again… I went a little texture crazy\
Here is a recent commissioned vector drawing I did. I used Von Glitschka’s method. I truly enjoying working this way, but at the same time, I’m trying to experiment with other things so I don’t come off as a total rip-off. I also recently learned how to add textures, so I went a little crazy with it haha. Anyways here is the little guy I’ve been talking about.
Before:
Alien Line Drawing
After:
Alien Vector Art
If your interested in the Glitschka method or adding textures, you can view my previous posts 
So I found a ton of old drawings from school that I had set apart to be photographed at some point in time. I don’t remember how I came about them all I remember is how I felt when I did… inspired (not to sound cocky or anything). I never had a very good camera so I never took the time to photograph them and never had the time, money, or drive to go get them professionally done. Fortunately, my girlfriend now has an SLR camera so I dropped everything I was doing, set up a little photo shoot in my garage and got started. I still have to manipulate them a bit in Photoshop, but I’m so excited that I have to share the few that are done. First up, is a mixed media painting that was done in I-don’t-know-what class. When I found it, the painting was very unfinished, as are most of my other class assignments, so I took all day yesterday and experimented on it. I took out a brand new box of pastels and went to work. Here are the before and after photos.
The base was done in watercolor and I added chalk pastel, used a paper stump to blend, and at the end I decided to get a really small spotter brush and do some line work with India ink. Then made some adjustments in Photoshop and added text with the help of Illustrator. I’m pretty satisfied with the results considering the under-painting was done a few years ago. I’m mostly satisfied with the experimentation because I think I found a style I like for now. Next is a portrait I did in a Heads & Hands class. This was a 3 hour pose I believe done in black and white charcoal pencil on Canson toned paper. No smudging was used, the instructor, Chris Newhard, wouldn’t allow it (I now respect him so much for this). It was all just based on pressure and charcoal pencil softness and hardness. Yadda yadda yadda here’s the drawing.
18x24in Charcoal Portrait
… and an 1 hour ink wash drawing done in the same class.
16x20in Ink Wash Portrait
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