Sunday 21 February 2016

Q&A Saturday: Today We Wore - Making the Illustration

My initial pencil sketch for the illustration. This was my first attempt and I was happy with the likeness and proportions in this image so I just kept with this first attempt for my final. This is because it takes me a lot of time and care to do so once I have a look I like I will just stick with it, likeness in an illustration, that is based on portraits of individuals, is key.
Here is a progress shot of once I had started adding watercolour to the work. I focused on the key elements first - the skin tones and hair, as well as the stand out parts in the garments - the fur. I used a fan brush for these strokes and I could have done with a smaller one, but it was helpful to render the effect of fluffy fur.

In this pic I have worked into the illustration more using layers of watercolour. At this point I didn't want to over do it, I wanted to keep it clean cut and simple with negative space like the blogging style of TWW.
Here is my analogue illustration. I have worked into the watercolour painting with a black fine liner pen, I use this media because I have a lot of control with it and its really fine so I can accurately draw on the details within the image. I also gave the illustration a bit of a border, I did this to make the characters look more bold and intimidating, to stand out and juxtapose the white of the page. 

This is my final illustration. I adjusted Levels and Colour on Photoshop, I also added some black paintbrush strokes to areas on the top of the trousers and around the coats/jumpers. I think this just helped to make the illustration look bolder and more vibrant. Overall I am really happy with this illustration because I think it has synthesis to the Today We Wore blog and also depicts the two bloggers professionalism well. However if I were to do it again I would probably choose a more colourful illustration to do because they have some really fun shoots that would be really exciting to draw. Such as the photoshoot in their instagram below!

The look for today's shoot 💈

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