Showing posts with label artist process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artist process. Show all posts

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Bucketfeet Interview - The Sketch Artist Series

By: Sarah Gouda



Pamela Gallegos, creator of the Tambourine and founder of Pom Graphic Design, holds travel close to her heart. Though born and raised in Miami, her Peruvian roots have deeply impacted her art—and her many trips back to her parents' homeland have imbued her with an appreciation of the country's rich, mystical culture. It's easy to see the influence of travel and nature in her work's bright colors and tribal patterns, and the one-of-a-kind BucketFeet she recently designed are no exception.

Aside from being an immeasurably talented artist, Pamela is also refreshingly honest about her process. She readily opened up to us about the bout of creator's block she recently experienced and just what was needed to help her get through it: "Slumps are inevitable in just about all areas of our lives, and so it is with my art work as well. Usually, it takes a new project to reenergize my creativity. Recently I created my first custom “bucketfeet” shoe design. It was just before this project that I felt like I was in a bit of a creative slump. But then, the shoes came out fantastic and I had so much fun designing them! I have come to realize that the best way for me come out of a creative slump is by just “going for it”— taking on a new project with the same love and passion that I have for what I do as an artist. I just let go and enjoy the journey."

Scroll through the photos below to get an inside look at what went into this vibrant pair of BucketFeet.












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Friday, January 10, 2014

Illustration Process for my Tribal Penguin

Hi Everyone & Happy Friday!

in this post I will share in detail from start to finish my Penguin illustration process.

First of I trace my penguin and all it's tiny details in pencil, once I am done I grab my Rotring Rapidograph pens and retrace the whole illustration with care, patience and attention to all my fine line details steady pulse is a must here! I use tips 0.1, 0.2 and 0.4 mostly.

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Once I have retraced all the outlines with my pen I scan it and save a copy for adding color later in Adobe Illustrator.
I then move on to doing my black and white version by starting to fill in the shapes and spaces with black ink.

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Once it feels like it's done, again I scan it and save this version, which will be my final black and white version.

Moving on to color. I upload my 1st outlined scanned version to Adobe Photoshop first to clean it up.
I end up re-tracing and re-drawing the whole illustration practically all over again. I am a big perfectionist and I want my lines to be as clean and accurate as possible, I currently do not have a great scanner yet so this is why I have to re-trace some parts again on Photoshop, double the work, double the fun! And yes, patience lots of patience, but when doing something you love the extra work does not really matter.
By the way I work with a Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet and am saving up to get the Wacom Cintiq which would allow me to draw directly to the screen and convert my illustration traces straight to vector lines and save me all this cleaning up process.

Ok by now I have my cleaned up version ready for Adobe Illustrator for the fun color adding part!
I open my .jpg or .png version on Adobe Illustrator and use the "Live Trace" tool adjusting the settings to the one that will go best to my design, to convert all my lines to vectors. works like magic!

I then select my color palettes to proceed with color adding. There are a few ways of adding colors, my favorite one is the "Live Paint Bucket". I select my color per area and then live paint one by one by sections.

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I keep going, one by one until I fill in each space accordingly to my chosen color palette.

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And Voila! this Little guy is done :)

The above version is called "Ethnic Penguin" my black and white version ended up looking like the one below and I named it "Tribal Penguin"

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