thekindman

Another rabbit.

Rabbit of the Year, part 2. Part 3 coming soon…

Part 2 coming soon.

This is the start to my next illustration. I thought about continuing the Rising Sun graphics into the background and foreground – but, seems it’ll only work towards the bottom half of the front tires. Like the previous illustration – I’ll finish this in Corel Painter.

His blog has a series of 4 posters available for purchase, but – all I see is SOLD OUT. Ashely Wood has been a favorite for some time now.

Think this is close to complete. Color of his gloves are a bit off. If you read below – you’ll see I went with plan B. The acetone transfer to watercolor paper didn’t work. I printed an 11 x 17 of the B&W image below from a laser printer. Prolly why the acetone transfer wasn’t clear. I should have used a xerox copy – like all the instructions mention. Anyway, I continued with the transfer on watercolor paper – and used pencil to darken outlines. At this point, I was hoping to finish with watercolor – then pen & ink for outlines. Wasn’t thrilled with my watercolor results – so, I scanned the image twice and patched them together in Photoshop. The image is 11 x 19 – my scanner is 8.5 x 14. I used Corel Painter to paint – and Photoshop for color and level adjustments. Drop me a line with questions or comments.

I’m hoping to finish one painting/illustration per month. This is number two. It’s still in sketch phase – I used the brush tool in Illustrator. I was thinking about doing an acetone transfer to watercolor paper. It’s been awhile since using watercolors – so, results should be interesting, I hope. If things don’t work out with watercolor – plan B will entail scanning and Corel Painter…with Photoshop and Illustrator, if things get really desperate.

Found Joao Ruas on another blog. Watercolor and gouache. He also sells prints.

Thought I’d give Corel Painter 11 a try. I started this sketch on a piece Jr. Legal note pad – as you can see. Found photo reference on flickr.com…and used a blue ball point pen. I adjusted color and levels in Photoshop…but everything else is Painter 11 with a Wacom tablet. Total time – about 1 hour.

Another favorite – James Jean. Mr. Jean is selling giclee prints on ultrasmooth fine art paper – click here. Very tempting. But, maybe next week…