Just Josh Illustration

Now in fantastic technicolor!

Been a while, I’ve had lots of refining for the pieces I’ve been working on, but here’s a little self portrait I whipped up last night

My second assignment for North Shore Art*Throb! I had to take a not exciting photo of a boat and, with some clever use of literary quotation, make it an exciting illustration.

Heres the first draft of my new logo design!

This is one of a series of portraits I’m creating for my internship at Front Street Studio for their literary magazine, North Shore Art*Throb Street Guide (http://www.nsartthrob.com/).  They wanted something artsy and graphic so this is my first shot at the magazine’s editor, Lilly McCrea.  It is created entirely in adobe illustrator.

I’ll keep up posts on this project as it progresses. 

This is the first of my illustrations of songs from Tally Hall’s latest album “Good & Evil”.  It is entitled “Sacred Beast”.

I had a lot of fun with this piece learned a whole lot about value structure though the most important lesson I learned was how to complete my process.  Here are the steps:

1. Brainstorm

2.Sketch

3.Refine Sketches

4. Select and create final sketch to work from

5. Resize sketch for transfer to larger format

6. Gather reference

7. Transfer

8. Draw 

9. Refine drawing

10. Scan drawing

11. Reassemble and clean up drawing digitally

12. Make digital corrections

12. Adjust and refine value structure 

13. Color

14. Refine color 

15. Make final overall refinements and corrections

16. Adjust for printing

17. Print and make ready for presentation!