YALL I GOT A GIG AS AN ILLUSTRATOR FOR A CHILDREN’S BOOK IM SO HYPED!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
this is my first ever illustration job, if you guys have any tips for children’s books, lmk!!! I’m probably not gonna make much money for it, but I wanna do my best on this book regardless, especially since it’s gonna be short and doesn’t have too many pages <3
In this tutorial I will share with you my process of creating illustration from sketch in Photoshop and Illustrator and making an animation in After Effects.
as promised (thumbs up) heres a lil uhhhh simple breakdown of how i general do fur things! can be applied to hair in general and also clouds and grass depending on how you work it (thumbs up pt2) feel free to request other tutorials
[Image ID: A digital drawing of a blue dragon flipping burgers at a grill with one hand, holding four kebabs in the other, and chopping meat with a cleaver held by it's tail. A second blue dragon off to the side is breathing blue fire under the grill to heat it. /. End ID]
The semester is finally finished! This is a style frame from my story development project. Even though I've decided to change the project's final style to something less polished, I'm still quite happy with this.
Want a pet portrait done? My commissions are open!
I figured out a new technique with my watercolor brushes to make more realistic short/fine hairs. I am absolutely in love with this painting, I think it may be my best so far.
About my process:
So usually I’d use a cut up acrylic brush to get an uneven/jagged texture that creates strokes resembling when used to paint. This is great with long haired animals if they have flowing hair. With short haired dogs it doesn’t work as well because of the hundreds (thousands?) of tiny little strokes required to get the texture right. This time I used an actual watercolor brush (a smaller round brush) and would flick any excess water off so it was mostly dry (but with pigment) and splayed out kind of wildly (more or less depending on how sparse or heavy/dark I needed the hair to be in each area) I primarily used a Windsor & Newton Series-7 size 3 (finest sable). The paper is 9x12. Adjust your brush sizing accordingly. I used a white gel pen for corrections. Often it’s too bright for a particular area on a darker dog so I’ll often rub it in with my fingers to soften the contrast!
A friend of mine commed me to draw this and then after asked me to teach em how I do backgrounds so for the next 45 minutes, I spent it doing this how I draw grass tutorial.