Today I want to participate in the 5th monthly thumbnail competition for State of the Sndbox! Each Wednesday @sndbox does a newsletter - State of the Sndbox - to update the Steemit community on their progress and ongoing work. This monthly competition gives us an opportunity to showcase our creativity as the face of the newsletter. Winners will get big exposure and some nice rewards.
Inspiration
I was inspired with lot's of things. First of all I am really inspired with the team of professionals at @sndbox. Guys, you are really awesome and I am reading all your articles here! Look at these colors State of Sndbox have! They are inspiration itself!
Third thing inspired me was that I had an illustration with this relaxed guy which I've done about a year ago and though it would be nice to create something similar but rotate the pillow to make the shape of sandbox to it. And ofcourse I was interested to redraw this from scratch it a different manner.
Process
So I've started to draw a new guy. I've used myself as a references :) As usual I am drawing simple shapes with the hard brush in Photoshop first and then lock the transparency of that layers and draw inside with almost transparent brushes.
Then it was almost ready I've added some textures applying them with Sorf Light 50-70%.
Love it, sent some extra tips your way in the way SBD ^^
Btw, I'm working on a project and I could use a hand in the design department.
Hit me up on steemit.chat or at [email protected]
Cheers, and Happy New Year! :D
Thanks a lot for the tips :) Yes, sure, I am always open to commercial illustration orders. My email is [email protected]
Happy New Year!
Nice!! Keep it up!
Thanks!
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this post very nice.your art and desing very beautiful..thanks for sharing this post..
Thanks a lot! Glad you like it!
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Excellent design. Good job. Nice illustration work.
Thank you so much!
Good to hear about the process thank you
Glad it was useful, thanks!
Good job.. Did you use photoshop or some other tool?
Thanks! Answer mentioned in the post :)
always loved and continue to love your work into 2018! :)
Thank you so much! I remember you were asking me to draw a mouse? Do you still need it?
saving my pennies to hire you yes, gotta a mouse to draw and 3 project icons too ;) saving pennies! :)
yeah, it's better to save it :)
Nice post! For your upcoming soundbox competition, I wish you maximum success. I follow and upvote you.
Thank you :)
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Man you rock! nice entry best of luck!
Haha! Thank you :) nice to get such a comment!
good design @dunsky.. i like it your post..
Thanks a lot!
Man! you are killing it on steemit congratulations :D really showing the art community the opportunities that this website have for us. Keep it up! Do you have any advice to grow your blog?
Try to find something useful you can do for this wast community and keep going. Your blog is very good. And you have good skills so I think you are on the right path. And don't miss interesting challenges :)
Hello! I love your posts! I'm just curious, do you use Photoshop (I'm just guessing that's what you use) for the whole illustration process or do you use other softwares as well? Thanks for sharing your process! I'm inspired! :) Helen
Hello Helen, nice to meet you! Yes, I am using only Photoshop usually if I draw on PC or Mac. Otherwise on iPad I am drawing in Procreate application. I will write a post about it soon for sure :)
Nice to meet you too! Thanks for answering and I look forward to learn more about your techniques! I am myself mostly working in Illustrator, but I do love the textures and soft transitions you can achieve in Photoshop. :)