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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

My Process of creating Mixed Media children's art

In this post I thought I would show you a bit how I work from sketch to finished art.


1. Here's my sketch

2. Next I lay down the foundation colors and start to fill in different elements of the art.

3. Once the initial art colors and characters are painted, I like to bring the art into Photoshop where I add lots of the details, textures and patterns. I have a large library of textures and patterns that I have created on paper using paints and scratchboard and pen and ink, etc. I have also been known to scan fabrics, newspapers, buttons, really what ever I think I can use in my art. It's a lot of fun creating those different textures and patterns and once I scan it into the computer I can use it multiple times because it's now a computer file.

4. And here is the final art with all the details, textures and patterns added in in place. But wait, there's one more addition to this piece!

5. I decided to add a border all around it. This was a border I created by hand and scanned/manipulated in the computer. Hope you had fun seeing a bit of my working process!

5 comments:

  1. love it! (do we get a shot of your workspace as well- a la Illo Friday? ;)

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  2. This is fantastic, Lesley! Good stuff!

    Steve

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  3. This is an excellent thing to do from time to time on your blog. A.d.'s love to see 'behind the curtain' to really understand your creative process. Well done!

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  4. Thanks everyone! I love the feedback.

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