Finally the Video.

Good Morning, Good Morning, i love the Morning.
Finally the Video! i promised i would get it to you,
and wow, i had to jump through a few hoops to get it done,
but i really like how it turned out.
The song is by one of my best friends since i was in kindergarten, Mr. Ryan Baxley.
He is Brilliant! One of those Musical Genuis'.
Yep, yep! That is him singing and playing.
Please check his music out by clicking here

For those who couldn't tell what materials i used it was pen, then watered down ink, then colored inks,
then Prismacolor pens, colored pencils, then blended them.
I really hope you all like the video and i hope it answers some questions.

If you haven't seen the finished Self Portrait from that Video...
Click Here to see it.

Something short.

i found somemore building process pictures. i should have taken more.
but this is from that window display i made for Eco Citizen. to read more Click here.

13 days and too much cardboard

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yea you know i had to draw my self in there. hah
well, i thought i would post a video of picks of the process of building a big layered illustration.
I had a bunch of pictures of the process of the one in my studio that's 5ft by 6ft.
and i found the concept sketch. it took 13 days and 152 hours. and is made out of cardboard and fabric.
(Click here to see previous post about this project)

For Thoses Who Like This Kind of Stuff.

I don't know if this kind of stuff interested yawl, but i know for myself i always loved to learn techniques and methods, and still do. Also i'm a wrestling coach so i find in everything, i love to teach, so i wanted to do a post breakdown of how i work on creating a picture. i hope this isn't too boring. ;)

The illustration I'm going to break down is the one i did of Christian Dior Collection.this process is the same method i used on the chanel glasses one. I start out with the poses and composition first, like below.
(Also, there are times where i start with the clothes first, and then develop the pose around it like in the AAU lookbook i did last year.)

Note: i draw them with nothing on but a grid suite. this is so i can know where the body is at and then build the garment off of that.
With this drawing i actually liked the arrangement of the figures so much i put it away for 6 months, and i didn't want to use it till there was the perfect collection for it. Then last year i was putting together my Fashion illustration portfolio, and Christian Dior's Fall 2007 Couture collection came out. It felt like the perfect fit for the poses. So the next part of the process is to pick out the outfits and assign them to a pose. so i just went on to style.com and looked through the runway pictures to get a garment reference and then a details reference. Once that is down what i like to do is do my own "Casting Call". haha. i try to assign each pose a model. so i just try to find references of models who have the right looks that complement the way i draw and also fit the picture. It is a fun little change, to try build a picture that doesn't exist.

For this outfit/pose i picked Gemma Ward. i thought that the pose just felt like a good pose for her.


For this outfit/pose i picked Lily Cole


For this outfit/pose i picked Cintia Dicker. I wanted her and lily to be diagonal from each other so there would be a nice balance with the touches of red...


For this outfit/pose i picked Jessica Stam. there was this picture of her which just felt like the perfect profile for it.




and for this last one outfit/pose i picked Ali Michael. She has a a really calm subdued look to her.

After i redraft those, i have the pre Final Draft.

i get that image sized up to the size it will be for the final version. For this picture i sized it to 40" by 30".
and then i will copy it on to the final paper and go for it.

welp that's it. hope you liked it.
:)

The Process

well folks i'm currently illustrating my first children's book written by the lovely miss Sophie Ward. It's an amazing book. i can't wait for it to be out there... but i wanted to post some screenshots of one of the drawing for the book. enjoy. :)