Last Semester I had the pleasure of taking my second illustration class with Professor Kathleen McCarney at Canada College in Redwood City, CA, USA. I've been using what I learned to revise my pattern covers and make sure there is some uniformity between them.
Here I am revising the Patti Cover. It initially had flat renderings
and I want a bit more lifelike representations.
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I generally start with a photo. |
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Which I then reduce to a line drawing. It can look quite different than the photo but I find it helpful to start from a photo. Here I added in some shadowing for a more 3D look. |
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I then started to audition color combinations |
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Not liking the blue and brown much. |
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This combo wasn't bad. |
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The pink and brown is a bit more appealing to me. The numbers written on the pages are the pen color numbers. |
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The final (I thought) version. Then I realized it was too long, not representative of how
the pattern would turn out. |
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So I shortened it. Subtle but more accurate. |
It is wonderful to have control over the process. Some of you are laughing because you know I am a control freak, albeit a messy control freak.
The downside is it often takes a tremendous amount of time before I am satisfied with a drawing. Thank goodness for the training I received! The more I exercise my skills the faster I become and hopefully better. |
wow! soon you'll switch to illustration! these are amazing!
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