Illustration complete

 

This illustration definitely had its frustrations but here it is, complete at last. Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but decent. The series on my one-year-old children is now complete. In a few days I will have a 16x20 inch print that I will mount in a glass covered frame. I look forward to seeing all four illustrations side-by-side.

The eyes were a huge issue

For the last few weeks I have been frustrated in how the face was turning out. Just did not look right. Finally came to the conclusion that the eyes were too small and too close together. The thought crossed my mind to start the whole thing over. Instead I did some resizing and reintegrating of the eyes. Below is the the final result (Right) compared to an older version (Left). Not perfect, but immensely better looking than before.

Now I need to decide on my next big personal project. I have been meaning to do something with the original photos of my wife and I on our wedding. Perhaps that can be next years anniversary present.

Krita is a great program

Heres another call-out to the program known as Krita. Working in this program his a pleasure. Look forward to more creative work being done with this superb tool. 

Daughter illustration update, July

Been a while since my last update on this illustration. I went through a little funk where I just didn't have the desire to work on it. But I finally picked it up this last week and have made some significant progress. Below are some detailed images of the illustration as it is now. I have a bunch more detail to add. Should be fun though. Hopefully I will have this ready by my wife's Birthday.

Details on Face progress

Another update on my Daughters illustration. I am finding Krita easy to use with a tablet. Love how easy it is to get just the right shade of gray. Super-easy to get that painterly feel with default brushes too. things are progressing on details in the face.

Daughter illustration update June 6

Minor update on my illustration for my wife. Details on the face are progressing. Still so much work to be done. But I am learning the basics of Krita.

My daughter's digital painting begins

This is the first in a series of posts concerning an illustration I am doing of my youngest child. I have 4 children. For each I have taken photos of them at 1 year old. From these photos I have created a 16x20 drawing that are now framed in our living room. Each is as unique as the child illustrated in each frame. The first I did in white colored pencil on black board. The second I sketched on paper, scanned the sketches then used Gimp 2.6 to illustrate the colors into the scanned sketches. The third, I simply took the digital photos, composited and artified them. I did this during the stress of University schooling, so it turned out to be the least traditional.