I may be addicted to Adobe Photoshop and the Wacom Tablet. ‘Tiger’ is my latest piece that I worked on to fill my 2010 portfolio. My initial idea was to finish this piece traditionally with pencils and maybe a little spot coloring with prismacolor markers. However, once I scanned in my rough sketch and was playing with value studies and composition ideas I kept going until it was done. I’m having so much fun learning.
I was commissioned by Mosaic, Co. in Florida to do a caricature illustration of one of their employees who is retiring. This was an over the weekend job with a very quick turnaround. I feel good about it but with ever thing I do, I still want to tweak certain things. I’m also adding the reference photo Mosaic gave me to use.
Gary Hampel being presented the caricature illustration by my Dad. Thanks Dad!
This is a poster design for Music City Burlesque that my friend Eric Denton and I collaborated on. I borrowed a Wacom tablet and played around with color over my caricature sketch of Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey. It was my first time using Adobe Photoshop this way. I still have a lot to learn and a long way to go in learning Ps and Ai. Hiding layers and Apple-Z became my friend.
This was a conceptual portrait I did at the Illustration Academy in Sarasota, FL
It was also chosen as a t-shirt design for Teefury.
