Showing posts with label fantasy illustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy illustration. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Making High format Promotional material is a #%$ !!

I spent more than 5 hours, digging out my vector files of a character Illustration I made to render my composition 220% larger. End of it I think it is worth it. What good is it getting printed with distracting pixels. The following Illustration was made with the soldier being given a small touch of manga... enough not to get distracted by the style in my art. I prefer not to use more than 20% if I want manga in my illustrations. I admit I have no experience in manga anyway but enough experience to complement my style with a few trends around.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Illustration - Sizing to High format is no joke!?

I am sure many illustrators have run into a situation I am in now and doing what I am into at this moment.

One of my designs has brought on the need for me to make it 50 times larger in size. Oops! That is going to be several man-hours of pixel-level make-do and late hours of work and great strain to the eyes.
Below is a tiny clip of my mural sized once tiny artwork: Will upload it here once I am done.

But the good side to this exercise is that we get to learn the intricate details of the subject. For example what I am working on now is on an organic subject where I need to go down to the details of painting in its blood vessels. So am enjoying the research I am doing to get it right and glad to think back and realize that how my years of sketch-outings to make it my way of life as an artist is paying off... to do live sketches of humans and animals at gyms and the zoo respectively.

There are to regrets for the investment of time and energy I had spent at a time where many in my part of the world would have frowned upon to make sad judgments about this. How else could an artist grow in a city where specialties in art merely lay primarily within the passion of the learner whether an art-school student or a normal student who worked side by side with a passion in art. The only option was to enliven the dormant motivation within. As a Math graduate student with a passion in art.. which is all I needed to get started to hang out with a few naturalists in the city, while they covered nature with their various elements, I sketched without boundaries on anything under the sky. Right there was my art-schooling which has helped to reap the benefits today when I sit with this simple pleasure.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Science Fiction Novel & Book Cover Illustration

It is my pleasure to take you to the online release of a must-read novel "Planeshifters" by an author I admire very much, Gunnar C Garrison for whose books I have had the privilege to design.

Do enjoy an intense read of the Novel as an e-book from:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/136124
It is due for a Print release in a few weeks.

Before I take off may I mention that my experiences of designing for Gunnar's books have been most enriching for I couldn't have painted any pixel of it without getting into details of scenes in the story to visualize every detail.

I look forward to releasing an article very soon on the "making of a Sci Fi Book Cover" featuring the Planeshifter's book design. So do visit back or lookup: rembrandz.hubpages.com and you may just about stumble upon it one of these days.

Look forward to seeing you again!

Creatively yours