JAGO ILLUSTRATION

Monday, September 29, 2008

Photoshop for Beginners - Week Two

Image via WikipediaHere's the 2nd week of the Photoshop course, eight more weeks to come. Feel free to download it (click on the Scribd button then use the Download link at the top of the following page) and if you find it useful leave me a comment.

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Photoshop for Beginners - Week One

Image via WikipediaI'm running a Photoshop for Beginners course at the moment, here's the first handout. Feel free to download it (click on the Scribd button then use the Download link at the top of the following page) and if you find it useful leave me a comment.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Pine Cone

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Helmeted Guinea Fowl!

Just drawing some birds for my new book, I think these are great, they're strange and square looking and move like small dinosaurs....

San Francisco Shaker set

My dad recently made a salt, pepper and mustard set for the Novelty Salt & Pepper Shakers Club based in the USA. It was for their San Francisco "Shakers by the Bay" club convention held in July 2008 and was a Limited edition of 300 sets. The salt and peppers nod as if in an earthquake!

He commissioned me to provide the illustrations for the front and back of the "postcard" on which the shakers sit. It was interesting as we had to come up with a limited colour illustration as each additional colour added a huge cost to the price of the transfers..... or so we thought.
We eventually discovered a new digital printing service that could reproduce hundreds of colours from a digital file at no extra cost. So in the end we could have had a more complex textured illustration, but it was good fun trying to work within a limited colour range.

Here are some experimental images I made during the process just using the colour separations I had created for the limited colour version.