I’d like to take this week’s Illustration Friday segment to show you a peek one my projects-in-progress. The last few months have been spent completing (among other things) illustrations for the forthcoming picture book, The Antarctic Express. The story is a retelling of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, and the scene features Professor Dyer unearthing a legendary Old One.For this book, I’m creating graphite drawings first, then overlaying color and other effects digitally in Photoshop. It’s a change from my usual watercolor paintings, but after illustrating 7 books in that medium, I was ready to try something new. Unfortunately I can't show more of this technique until the publishing date draws closer. Trust me, though, this book is looking very cool.
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Nice illustration...Your technique sounds intimidating to me...I've never attempted any digital art.
Thanks Deb. To be honest, digital painting intimidates me, too. That's why I'm going half-and-half with it. I keep the textures and tonal nuances of graphite drawing, with the added editing convenience, color saturation, and effects of digital painting.
I'm not quite at the point myself where I can paint completely digitally, but I hope to get there someday.
very cool - hope to see the finished piece sometime
What a lovely illustration! And I'm intrigued by the story.
A twist on At The Mountains of Madness? How original! I love H.P. Lovecraft's work. Can't wait to hear more on this book, Christine!
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Looks fantastic, Christina!
I know what you mean -- digital painting intimidates me too. Like yourself, I'm using photoshop and such to colorize my graphite drawings, sometimes using background tints and swaths of color. But then I print them out onto watercolor paper and proceed as usual.
I do find that this technique saves me a lot of time - transferring drawings is my least favorite thing to do. But I'm tempted to try to "up" the digital portion a bit. Will be curious to see how your's turns out!
Christina, I love your graphite drawings and watercolors! I hear you about the need for a change. I find Photoshop exasperating! I can't wait to see the finished copy.
I don't have time to really play in Photoshop, I figured I would take a workshop, instead of figuring it out! I love playing with art with my hands, maybe it's the getting dirty part that appeals to me.!
The new graphite drawing looks really cool. How fun to try a new technique. If I ever get to 7 books, I bet I would want to shake things up as well.
The graphite itself is great so I know your effects will be awesome.Keep us posted.
Beautiful! And you say it's not even finished yet! I'm definitely curious as to what that thing is. :)
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