This image came from a sketch I’ve had for a while, although it has progressed a little from its early scribble. Titled {Absolve} – meaning ‘to set free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt’ – this image has quite an obvious religious theme when linked with its title. Although, at a quick glance it could just look like a bunch of hoodies with umbrellas in some massive angry rain.
OMG. It is only a week and a half until christmas! Every year seem to sneak up on me a little quicker, but this year stormed past Kris Akabusi style “Awwwrriiiiiggght!!!”
I’ve Done all of my christmas shopping…….. online……. just got to wait and see if it all turns up in the post!! The house is decorated and the tree is up, with no cat related incidents as of yet. Just got to get these christmas cards written and sent off.
I finally got the cards printed onto some 
lovely textured card. The texture shows through the image aswell which looks great, just the effect I was looking for. On the back I have the web details etc in colours that match the front, which finishes it of nicely.
Now I just need to rely on the post office to deliver these out to people…. so they may get them by the end of january. Lovely stuff.
I have a double page feature in next months Digital Artist magazine, issue 15~ out on 30th December 2010. I am dead excited, can’t wait to see it all glossy and printed!! As an early treat I had a little image and mention in the ‘Next Issue’ section of the current issue (14). It felt like Christmas had come early and I had opened up that Tomy Super Cup football game that I always wanted!!
Thats right… you’ve guessed it, it’s Christmas card number 3. This started off as a regular snowman just looking a bit evil, but it just didn’t seem quite right. So Mr Skele-snowman was born, or resurrected even. The text in this one is taken from the snowman song. Ahhhhhhh how cute.
One more Christmas card then I have a set of four, which will make a lovely large poster image. Keep em peeled!!
So here is Christmas card number two. A couple of characters from other artwork popped in there in children’s toy size versions. Plus a skeleton jack in the box, which personally I think would be a pretty cool gift rather than a scary one. The text is taken from a line in the well know Christmas ditty “Santa Claus is coming to town”.
Be good kids, he’s watching!!!!
So here is Christmas card number two. A couple of characters from other artwork popped in there in children’s toy size versions. Plus a skeleton jack in the box, which personally I think would be a pretty cool gift rather than a scary one. The text is taken from a line in the well know Christmas ditty “Santa Claus is coming to town”.
Be good kids, he’s watching!!!!
It’s that time of year again, the build up to christmas. Girlfriends and wives have endless christmas lists to shop for, boyfriends and husbands haven’t got a clue what they want so they just get socks and man stuff, and everyone gets stuck in massive turkey, alcohol and biscuit trolley queues at Tesco.
Here is my first christmas card design. One colour illustrator image printed on recycled/textured card. Bah Humbug!!!
It’s that time of year again, the build up to christmas. Girlfriends and wives have endless christmas lists to shop for, boyfriends and husbands haven’t got a clue what they want so they just get socks and man stuff, and everyone gets stuck in massive turkey, alcohol and biscuit trolley queues at Tesco.
Here is my first christmas card design. One colour illustrator image printed on recycled/textured card. Bah Humbug!!!
I’m not a religious person. I like the art, imagery, statues, cathedrals, churches and the theory of it including the way it gives people hope or helps people focus on something when they don’t have anything or are in troubled times. The catholic church, kind of the Bang and Olufsen of religions, has always been a bit of a dodgy subject. And theres something not quite right about it that has always bugged me.
Jesus washed peoples feet, and lived in a shed or cave or something right? And rumour has it he was a bit of a magician. So why does the Pope live in an almost golden city with mafia like bodyguards? Hmmmm. This led me to looking up on t’internet what the Pope’s salary is and if he gets Christmas bonuses for being extra pope-like? Turns out he doesn’t have a paycheck like us regular folk. He doesn’t even need money in fact. He is almost above money. Something not right there hey?
Anyway this quick little illustration/print is what spawned from these thoughts. See you all in hell!!!
I’m not a religious person. I like the art, imagery, statues, cathedrals, churches and the theory of it including the way it gives people hope or helps people focus on something when they don’t have anything or are in troubled times. The catholic church, kind of the Bang and Olufsen of religions, has always been a bit of a dodgy subject. And theres something not quite right about it that has always bugged me.
Jesus washed peoples feet, and lived in a shed or cave or something right? And rumour has it he was a bit of a magician. So why does the Pope live in an almost golden city with mafia like bodyguards? Hmmmm. This led me to looking up on t’internet what the Pope’s salary is and if he gets Christmas bonuses for being extra pope-like? Turns out he doesn’t have a paycheck like us regular folk. He doesn’t even need money in fact. He is almost above money. Something not right there hey?
Anyway this quick little illustration/print is what spawned from these thoughts. See you all in hell!!!
The brief for this t-shirt was to produce an image in 1 colour with no transparencies or gradients. Usually when working with 4 colour CMYK it is easy to make images stand out with different tints or stroked outlines, but with 1 colour it takes a little more thought. Everything has to be planned.
Edges of shapes that touch each other can become merged and everything starts to look like a blob of colour. In this case I used a stroked line around each section which was then subtracted from the main image to show the background through thus acting as an extra colour, but not an actual colour if you see what I mean?
Also Shading to show darker or lighter areas and gradients can’t be used, so in this image I used half-toning in a starburst shape around the edge of the main image focus to add a gradient look. This tricks the eye into thinking it is fading out at the edges when really its just smaller ink drops. Simple but effective.
The brief for this t-shirt was to produce an image in 1 colour with no transparencies or gradients. Usually when working with 4 colour CMYK it is easy to make images stand out with different tints or stroked outlines, but with 1 colour it takes a little more thought. Everything has to be planned.
Edges of shapes that touch each other can become merged and everything starts to look like a blob of colour. In this case I used a stroked line around each section which was then subtracted from the main image to show the background through thus acting as an extra colour, but not an actual colour if you see what I mean?
Also Shading to show darker or lighter areas and gradients can’t be used, so in this image I used half-toning in a starburst shape around the edge of the main image focus to add a gradient look. This tricks the eye into thinking it is fading out at the edges when really its just smaller ink drops. Simple but effective.
