I'm behind on these blog updates (sorry about that), so I'm hoping this post will catch things up.
Before I forget to mention it, the results are in from Facebook. This illustration is now titled "To the Edge and Back";
Thank you to everyone who voted on the name. ^_^
And now what I've been working on lately, by request of my very good friend Elizabeth -"A Bunny"
I asked what kind of bunny should I be drawing,
but "A Bunny", is the only input I was getting
which meant I could do whatever I wanted (yay!).
So I drew this classy looking fellow.
I decided to go with red and green since I rarely use those colors together outside of Christmas. Red became more of a pink and purple, but oh well, I have very few rules to follow on this one.
The next few of these are the paintbrush tool and playing with filters to make a really cool background effect.
And some burn tool, shading the bunny.
I really liked the colors at this point,
but the bunny looked a lot like plastic
and you can see the seams of all the layers I'm using.
So I went a lot darker with the shading,
and then I picked out a few shades of pink to paint in as fur.
See?
Cleaned up the lines.
Messing with layer filters again.
Now it looks like it has a little fur, but it's not quite right yet.
Painted in another layer of fur to even out the colors/shading.
The background had gotten a little gray looking so I painted in more green.
Blurring and filter effects.
More painting and shading. Here we are now.
Not quite 100%, but it's pretty close to finished.
Not quite 100%, but it's pretty close to finished.
This new series is almost done now. All of the finished illustrations I posted earlier in the year have been color proofed/test printed. I have to brighten up one of them, and of course make sure the last couple illustrations are printing ok too. Then off to the printers they go.
