Challenge?

Hey, everybody. November 4, 2:06 am, typing out the words on my iPad. Writing the next newsletter about the concept art job I did for a film director/client. This could be a part two/extension on the newsletter I published on Linkedin, riffing/writing about the dance floor scene I drew in a cartoon/comic book/pop art style. For this blog, maybe delve into about challenges that you face when you are doing an illustration.

When I am working on a job for a client, I am always drawing sketches, working out ideas, figuring out what the overall composition would look like. Sometimes I am happy about it, sometimes I am restless. Restless in the feeling that I am not satisfied with the composition, maybe even the rendering. Always striving to do the best.

With this illustration…can’t find the words. It was completed, but I wanted to take another crack at it. My goal: change it up a bit. Change the composition, rearrange the visual elements, change up the angle shot. So, for next month, I will post the third and final illustration of clubbers on the dance floor.

I dig the fact that I made sure there was a sense of foreground and background in the second illustration. You see some of the people in the foreground, others in the background, visual elements overlapping. Two primary colors on dresses in the foreground. Secondary colors on clothes in the midground and warm colors in the background. Spots of white and black tones, trying to add more contrast, nothing gets muddied up in the illustration, the colors bright and pop.

Anything else? Finished up a concept design job for a film production company. Talking to the creative director for a fashion label to do some customized work. Networking like hell, picking up a few gigs and taking one step at a time. Regarding films, still on a French New Wave kick and started watching Steve McQueen’s BLITZ online. Reading Edward S Aarons’ NO PLACE TO LIVE, a noir /pulp/paperback book from the late Forties. A few pages into it, but so far so good. Have a few Mickey Spillane paperbacks I gotta delve into.

Okay, folks. Gotta run. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and talk to you soon. All the best.