This month's main story for the Takeover section is about teens smoking.
Here is my illustration.
I drew this in pencil first. And added color using Adobe photoshop. The idea came to me as I was looking at a photo of a cigarette. Otherwise, the concept just popped into my head.
Most of my ideas come to me like that.
I will use some photos for reference, but be warned copying a photo is a form of plagiarism and should be taken seriously.
I love fairy tales. And one of my favorites is Rapunzel. Here is the start of the illustration I am currently working on. This is not an illustration for the newspaper, but more of a personal study into my creative side. This image just popped into my head. It's the iconic scene where Rapunzel lets down her long hair.
I've been working on a page design for the upcoming movie "Where the Wild Things Are."
Today I was working on an illustration of Max.
Here is the preliminary sketch drawing using 3H and 4B pencils.
Using a Wacom tablet I add color in Adobe PhotoShop.
Here is a closer look at Max.
I am working in Adobe PhotoShop CS3 and I only have three layers. Top layer is the sketch, this layer is set to multiply so the white background disappears. The layer right below is my color layer. And this is where I add color. I started changing more of the options of my brushes and really like the look of turning"wet edges" on in the options palette. This option gives the brush a more painterly look to it.
The bottom layer is my background and it is white.
