Just wanted to do a quick sketch from a cartoon. Points to those in the know.
I used Sketchbook pro to set down the rough. Then I switched over to painter 12 to play a bit with the pencil took and pen and ink.
Hope you like it.
Author: stepheningram
Snow-Illustration Friday quick sketch
Quick illustration for Illustration Friday.
Used Corel Painter and the airbrush splatter tool. I used typical brushes and chalk and a few psd layers to put it together in a short time.
Pen and Ink Illustration
Submission for the Tomie dePaola award. Used traditional pen and ink on hot press watercolor paper. Loved the downward motion of the strokes and tried to have everything move towards the bottom of the page by using bold strokes.
Very happy with the outcome.
Triceratops flying-brush and ink wash
Have to love dinosaurs and especially triceratops.
A simple illustration that I did for my son. Got to get around to getting this on his wall. Still inspired by the work of another artist that impressed me enough to pick up the brush and create a illustration.
Did a light pencil sketch that came rather quickly. Arches watercolor paper with a walnut ink.
I like it and hope to do more.
Hope you like it too.
I will post it on Illustration Friday for the topic of sky.
Ahab and the Great White Whale Corel Painter
Had this illustration for a while and never posted. Originally intended to be a poster for classic literature.
Nothing says classic literature like Moby Dick, and nothing paints a more dire picture than Ahab going on his last mission.
I’ve played with this on and off for some time. I enjoyed the dynamics and played with a very loose brush set in painter 12, something that I generally do not do.
I tried to highlight an image of a skull in his face, to forecast his eventual fate, pinned forever to the side of the white whale.
Library Cartoon
Cartoon about libraries. Used traditional pen and ink over pencil.
Always thought it is interesting in any job when you think of what your job will entail, and what it actually will become.
Illustration Friday: Book
Illustration Friday challenge: Book.
I did this drawing in about 15 minutes using traditional pen and ink fountain pens. I decided to invert the general practice of reading by transplanting the head to the hands and vice-versa.
I don’t think the black background added too much to the drawing.
I use a pentel aquash watercolor brush pen that I have filled with ink for the bigger spots.
Perhaps it would have been better to have left it out. Oh well.
Hope you enjoy.
Rose 9 watercolor
Dragonfly inked in Corel Painter
Just a quick sketch of a dragonfly that I scanned and then inked in Corel Painter. I used the scratchboard tool under the pen category.
I like how it gives me thin and thick lines, much like a brush or fountain pen.
Dinosaur on a bicylce ink wash
Dinosaur on a bicycle ink wash.
When I first started working with pen and ink, I used to color all my illustrations with ink, instead of watercolor. I had never used watercolor before, and for years I played with washes of ink.
Now I’m just on a small role, taking some Dr. Martin inks, diluting them with water and seeing what I could create.
Noting says fun than doing ink washes of dinosaurs, so this is the second in a series, until I get bored, of distracting projects that are too much fun.
Scanner may not pickup the color and gradations exactly, but it is pretty close.
Hope you enjoy.