Front312 July poster - getting my hands dirty again..

Losing my photoshop temporarily has been somewhat of a blessing in disguise, as it has forced me to delve back into the world of traditional media. It's not that I didn't particularly LIKE using paints and watercolor, but since being in school and getting used to the quickness of digital illustration, I have to admit I became somewhat lazy.
I never really use much mixed media, but in this case of running out of watercolor somewhere around 4am (only a few hours til deadline.) I had to resort to other measures..

I ended up using inks and watercolor for the foreground, acrylic for the background, adding shadows and highlights with colored pencil and charcoal. I pulled the pieces together in photoshop, retouched briefly, then added text.

The ending result is a piece with vibrant color, and different textures adding levels of depth and dimension I haven't seen within my artwork in a while. It reminds me, that the effect of hand-drawn and painted artwork, almost impossible to replicate with the computer, not to mention a sense of satisfaction scrubbing down my paint-caked hands.

It's good to be back :)

Inspiration..


Linework:


Watercolor:


Whoops, outta watercolor... add acryllic for background!



Layering the foreground/background with touches in photoshop, and..

Voila!