Illustration

Prismacolor sketch-Sunflower

Posted by ChrisR on Jun 5, 2010 in Art and Drawings (non-digital), Illustration | Comments Off

On the weekends I’ve been enjoying sketching flowers. I’m fascinated with Sunflowers and have a wild area in my yard filled with them. Here is a Prismacolor sketch I did.

Sketch-Red Umbrella Windy Night

Posted by ChrisR on Apr 23, 2010 in Art and Drawings (non-digital), Illustration | Comments Off

Digging through my sketch archives and came across this pencil sketch I did for a editorial project. Reminds me to take more time to get back to story telling through Illustrations.

Grunge Album Art

Posted by ChrisR on Apr 1, 2010 in Digital Art/Drawing, Illustration | 3 comments

Created this piece in Photoshop for a music project my son is working on. He writes lyrics and songs and wanted me to make him art that would represent the mood of the music. Used some brushes, imagery and type.

Whimsical Nature Logo

Posted by ChrisR on Mar 23, 2010 in Graphic Design, Illustration | Comments Off

Found a tutorial on creating a nature/green logo in Illustrator at Smashing Magazine. It was fairly involved and I didn’t add all the elements like the dirt. I much rather spend my day Illustrating! Had fun with it.

Vector Illustration from Sketch

Posted by Kayla on Mar 22, 2010 in Digital Art/Drawing, Illustration | 2 comments

A few weeks ago, I posted an initial character sketch, and said I would follow up with the digital version later. This started as a custom illustration for a client, but as I got further into this project, the illustration started to look younger than what was needed for the client. Although I ended up going in a different direction for the final graphic, this digital illustration was still a step in the process.

Ribbon

Posted by Kelly on Mar 7, 2010 in Digital Art/Drawing, Illustration | 4 comments

I wanted to follow this Photoshop tutorial, but I can’t get the hand of the Photoshop pen tool, so I used the pen tool in Illustrator for the shapes, then brought it into Photoshop. I added a couple of filters to the end result.

Disco Ball

Posted by Kayla on Mar 6, 2010 in Graphic Design, Illustration | Comments Off

Looking for tutorials for the daily design challenge, I came across this fun tutorial for a disco ball. This project took a little bit longer than some of the other challenges, I spent about 45 minutes on the disco ball. I also ran into some difficulties with the tutorial, which may be due to the tutorial author using a different version of Adobe Illustrator than I was using (I have Adobe Illustrator CS4). If you’re interested in creating your own disco ball, read on for some of the discrepencies I found…