digital painting

the grave rocker gif and video

skeleton drinking a milkshake

And here’s the video, so you can hear the worms raving!

Song excerpt from beautiful synergy by DJ SHARPNEL

Fast Ways to Illustrate

This week’s tip of the week is all about illustrating!

As a professional illustrator you’ll need to show good results FAST and the three quickest ways to color your images are:

  • aquarelle (watercolors)
  • markers (“Copic” is a well known Japanese marker manufacturer)
  • computer

Each of these individual approaches gives more or less different results and varies in their purchasing expenses. While aquarelle is obviously the oldest coloring technique in this context it has proven to show great results after a rather sharp learning curve and is still far from being replaced. But let’s have a deeper analysis of the three methods:

fast_illustrating

This is only a simple overview. I can cover some of the points mentioned in detail in future posts 😉

Although I tried to avoid advertising specific manufacturers I mentioned some for the sake of giving you real examples you can work with!