Illustration Friday-Trouble
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"Relieve the troubles of my heart, and bring me out of my distress." Psalms 25:17
This is my entry for Illustration Friday's "trouble" (heart trouble). Created today, Friday (!) for this challenge.
I thought of my idea, heart trouble. I hacked out a composition in Freehand, then painted the elements (the background, the heart and the bandaid) separately with acrylic, using a textured paper. I added a fibrous tape to the "wall" part of the background and painted over that to get the extra texture. Then brought everything into Photoshop, and adjusted the colors.
One more thing, I wanted "bruised" type colors on the heart, so I Googled the word "bruise" and saw some absolutely horrific bruises! How fun is that???
What do you think?
posted by Digital Scott's Illustrationblog at 1:29 PM
28 Comments:
Great illo! Love the scripture ref.
Wonderful editorial comment. Love your use of acrylic and yes, I can definitely see the bruising on the heart. Hope you'll consider this as an image to license.
This is great! I love the textures, and you can't help but ask yourself whos heart that is and how did it get hurt. Maybe I don't wanna know!
OHHHHH I love it! I absolutely love the texture and the blue grey and browns on the floor...mmmmm...and the message of hope! clapping and smiling!
Wonderful textures and lovely illustration...of course I had to go google the word "bruise" - my oh my! Wonderful job.
Great concept and thanks for explaining your process. Really interesting!
I'll tell you what I think. I think this is your best piece to date. Nice job. Question: If the heart is despearately wicked, did it deserve the beat down it got? ;D
Heart trouble can be really troubling! But i must say i love the plaster illustration very very much! that's really cool.
cool intrepretation, nicely rendered..
this is very simple and absolutely sweet! i like it a lot.
i really like this technique you've been using with mixing real textures with digital. great stuff!
demos
great work, scott!
So tenderly beautiful on several levels.
I like that you quoted scripture and that this can mean so many things. The illustration, texture and your comments are all in tune with the subject. Great job!
i got your blog, this time via valgart!
interesting work, great textures, excellent mix tech and smart concept...snorkelling is always funny, tnx for your comment
:)
Hello!!!
Great illustration, congratulations.
Have a nice weekend.
Awwww, a heart in trouble. I like the time you take to explain how the illo came to be. Very nice work!
I used to have a dog like the one you're holding. Her name was Joni (after Joni Mitchell because she had long blonde hair and big teeth!) I had her for over 17 years.
This heart could be trying to get some much-needed rest, or maybe has been cast aside, neglected... Whichever it might be, this heart seems to be crying out for attention. I find this piece to be very emotional. Great illustration.
Nice idea and well done rendering. Congratulation
I love your art :o)
Best Wishes
Issi
Great idea, with the bandage. Nice piece of work.
I googled something to do with disease the other day, I was drawing a zombie, and the images were terrifying! I couldn't look!
I think I like it! I really like how you've created a band-aid like texture in the background, how the composition is wonderfully asymmetrical, and how you shared your process! I just noticed that we share a ton of favorite movies in common! Big Chris Guest fan ~ have you seen the new VW commercial? Nigel Tufnel LIVES!!!!
Great idea and execution. And thanks for the cool process details!
I like how the heart is slumping and heavy looking. The textures really convey a wounded feeling too (the band-aid texture gave me a wincing hospital feeling.) This is definitely a troubled heart doctor.
I enjoy reading the process of how you've made each of your illustrations, thank you for sharing.
This is really good!!!
Nice job! Thanks for the process info too :)
Beaten up, but recovering, I hope! The colors and texture work well-
heart heart heart.:)
i love this one. i fridays are my favi. this illustration is simple yet it says it all. i like it a lot.
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