Al Fresco Art Challenge, Jan 19, 2020 -- Banner Graphic for This Site
/Today’s Al Fresco Art Club challenge was to do something for my web site. I decided to make a banner image for this site’s future landing page. The landing page will feature my illustration work and will highlight my books. I want to (eventually) populate the site with my comic characters.
I did some brainstorming today and sketched several pages of potential ideas. I put the most time into the design below, with Jimmy Jay and Buddy Butterfly pushing massive letter block into place. I realize that if I want to get the idea fo “massive” across, I’ll have to make the blocks bigger or make Jimmy and Buddy smaller.
My work flow was:
Brainstorm for an hour and come up with a dozen graphite sketches.
Find the best candidate and ink it.
Photograph it and import It into Procreate.
Get confused and frustrated working with the iPad Pro.
Go back to basics: scan the sketches I created in step one.
Open them in Photoshop and feel better.