Pumpkin Field Illustration

Pumpkin Field - Illustration

Illustrator Vector

Sketchbook Sketch

Bird's Nest in the Sunset

This is a sketch I did during Christmas trip to Toronto. I love how fast I'm getting with painting these backgrounds!

Bird's Nest in the Sunset

 

Flash Vectors

Sketchbook Sketch

Saturday Afternoon

This is was a sketch I did last year on my visit to Fruitvale, thought this is would be a nice quick paint project.

Saturday Afternoon 

Background Design and Painting

 Sketchbook Sketch

Christina Lake- Illustration

Here is a sketch I did on my trip to Fruitvale in Summer of 2012. Christina Lake is about an hour away from Fruitvale, it's the place locals would call the hamptons, which I think is funny cause it's surrounded by screaming little kids. Lets just say I was promised a relaxing trip, and is it was anything but relaxing.

Christina Lake

 

Sketchbook Sketch

House in the Koots

Going through some of my sketches from last summer, I found this sketch I did while I was on a trip to Fruitvale, BC. Fruitvale is small town in interior British Columbia, the general area is called the "Kootenay's" area and it is beautiful out there, lovely mountains, clear blue lakes. Kootenay Lake is definitely on my bucket list of places to visit, and hopefully I'll be able to cross that off my list in a couple of years. For now, I'll be doing a Koots series with background designs and painting, which will be posted up in the near future. Here's the start of that collection.

House in the Koots

Progress

Western California Background Design

Since I'm in this waiting period before I head off to Manchester, UK; I've been taking this time to work on my portfolio. This week I've been focusing on background painting, in hopes of becoming a colour artist in the near future.

Western California Background Design

Day Version 

Night Version 

Progress

Sketchbook Sketch

Transferring it to Vectors 

I find it that when you have a fill on as your creating your lines with the pen tool and opacity on 50%, it helps when it comes to figuring out the layer order.

 

Painting Stage

Here are some progress photos of this background design. 

(Next time I'll document the whole progress and not just a corner of the piece) 

Some Sketches for Upcoming Paintings!

At first I wanted to paint this for Remembrance Day, and I was going to sell it later, but now I'm planning on making this one into a painting for a Christmas present.

This is also going to be a Christmas present. I really wanted to go to Algonquin Park this fall, since I'm back in Toronto for the next couple of months, but it doesn't look like I'll have time, so I just I'll just paint it. It's going to be very fall inspired.

This is going to be a background painting project for my portfolio, hopefully, I'll get it done in time for Halloween!