Illustration Friday-Remember
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This is my entry for Illustration Friday's "Remember" topic. These are Forget-Me-Nots! I will be doing two more flower illustrations within a few days to make a set of three, so check back! (OK, I added the other two illustrations, though only the Forget-Me Nots are really for "Remember")
I drew my lines in Freehand, painted different textures with acrylics, including some of cracked paint, (thanks for Claudine Hellmuth's book with some GREAT ideas and techniques!), then combined everything in Photoshop. All illustrations created specifically for this challenge. I was toying with adding drop shadows behind the flowers, but opted for these simpler presentations.
I seem to always do these late Friday night now, and somewhat lose my sense of judgement...
What do you think???
Thanks to all for the many great comments recently! It's very appreciated. Constructive feedback is encouraged!
posted by Digital Scott's Illustrationblog at 11:32 PM
74 Comments:
Hey there...I really like the textures in the background and in the flowers. Very nice!
I love "forget-me-note" very much and your illustrations too!
I like the idea of combining painted and other textures within vector shapes then played around with in photoshop. Cool.
I like your elegant and simple style.
Colors and textures are marvelous!
Thanks for sharing!
Cata.
Your work keeps improving Scott and these are some of my faves from you so far. I'm glad you skipped the drop shadows too--these are fine as they are.
Thanks For the nice comment on my blog....See I "remembered" your old shot. I thought it was quite nice. I like your Forget-me-nots. Lovely use of shape color and texture. Thanks for turning me on to Adrienne Young!
I just finished listening to the title track. That stuff is awesome. Speaking of Adriennes....someday check out Adrian Legg's "Cradle Songs". Its a bit more new age, but very nice. Have a great weekend!
very nice, great background. especially love the single tulip.
love the textures and colour choice in your flowers! good job!
I like your line quality, your textures, and your careful choice of color. You were the first comment. I hope that's a good omen.
Scott,
i really love this direction you've taken. the clean lines and the rich textures look marvelous. keep it up!
I like that term "rich texture" when describing this; because it just fits so well. Very clever take on the theme as well.
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Very fresh and attractive! I think you were right to omit the drop shadows.
this is a neat idea! your illustration is very clean and pretty..and spring related... nifty!
actually your mix between hand-made backgrounds and digital lines works quite nicely! "forget my not" is the best to me...tnx for your comment
:)
oh love all the textures!! these flowers are beautiful!!!
i love the textures too, nice job =) great to see you skipped the drop shadows, this simple look is beautiful!
thanks for your comment on my blog =)
astrid
so delicat! love the first one!
Great illos!!
I love textures of the backgrounds
The Forget-Me-Nots have a good flow.
I agree with everyone else, very nice contrast of the rougher texture and the delicacy of flowers. I hope I spelled that right...
These are lovely. For me the forget-me-nots definitely works best - there is something very simple and beautiful about it. I love the composition and the way the flowers sprawl into the frame. The colours (particularly the yellow centres) are so vibrant against the textured background.
Definitely the forget me nots! Nice graphical touch.
really nice idea! thanks for explaining me how you did the texture on "polar"- that was really interesting. never thought about doing that before. i have to experiment more ;)
Hey I really love the textures! I'm glad you left the drop shadows off, these have a nice fresh look.
It's cool to play around with paint for backgrounds, I've just taken a whole heap of photos of old floorboards with peeling paint to use, should be fun.
All 3 are lovely though my favourite is the blue one. And it's a wise thing you did not add the shadows :)
hmmm...have you ever thought of redoing these in acrylic on large canvases? Just a thought...
I have one of Claudines books too, love her stuff. These are lovely!
These are very nice Scott! To me, they almost look like inset wood pieces because of the texture. Nice job!
These are good, I too thought they were painted on wood!Love the texture, Jx
Beautiful work! Love the textures too!!
I love the forget-me-nots! So beautiful in its simplicity. Has an Asian Art feel...I'm really drawn to textures and what you've created is no exception! Great job!!
I love the graphic style over the wood grain. Your flowers are beautiful. Nice job!
Good work Scott. I wouldn't have used drop shadows in this illustration. Although often guilty of over-using that technique (even on this week's remember theme) I'm trying to break the drop-shadow habit.
Really stunning pieces, I love the textures and the colors are lovely.
Your judgement seems quite intact to me! Beautifully done Scott! I especially love these textured backgrounds!!!
Thanks for visiting my blog!
Nice idea and execution! I like the textures.
Very beautiful! I especially love the colors of the forget-me-nots. Thanks for visiting my blog :)
Great work, nice textures.
These are absolutely gorgeous! I really love the zen quality to them. The top two really move me. Nice style!
beautiful and elegant set of illos!! Love the Japanese print design style!!
Always beautiful - simple and elegant, Scott. I love the textures!
Thanks for your kind comment on my "remember" illo. :)
(the word verification was "rovry" - "Ro, res! Ris is ROVRY!")
I love the first pic, It`s beautiful, all these blue (or gray) flowers!! :)
Hey Scott - I'm liking these other 2 paintings from the triptich, but not as much as the first. The tulip painting seems like it could use a graphic next to the tulip...like the word Tulip, or Tulip several times in varying sizes, or maybe another painting of a tulip....maybe yellow. Again, great textures on all of them, though.
Thanks for the book you recommended. I read the reviews on Amazon. I have read CS Lewis, so I may have to check this one out as well. I need a summer read. May I recommend "Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller to you? My review is on Amazon. Check it out.
-Kate
jeez, Mr.popular, they've said everything already!! I'm just jealous :D lovely triptych
Great images!
These would make great illustrations for seed packets. You always do great work.
These are great! Love the colors and textures. Thanks for sharing your process too.
The drop shadows would have given some depth to the pieces and really make those flowers stand out. But it would have made it look more like paper cut-out, which may not have been what you wanted.
Great job!
Yo bro, that is Dale Chihuly's work in the photo I posted, from Las Vegas. :-) Great illos too!!
Beautiful work, Scott!
beautfiul flowers! Love your illustrations:)
Awesome! The colors, textures and design work so well!
Loverly ... like My Fair Lady.
Thx for all the nice kharma, sweetie!
Smooches,
The Tart
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I think they're springtime and I'm really loving these background colors and textures. Beautiful work, thanks for sharing, as usual, the preocess.
I like the texture a lot. Before I read what you wrote I thought that you must have done it one wood. I do like the simple presentation without the dropshadow-but what do I know.
Great work as always. You seem to excel in several areas and I always enjoy checking out your work.
I waited... till all three were posted.. Thankyou for your kind comments btw...
I like these cause .... the shapes make em exciting.. You have almost managed to make them into little landscapes... ;)
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Great illos! I like the textures and colors. Beautiful!
very nice and elegant, i love the colors
excellent flowers. i love your textures.
as for the rocks... everything is for sale. everything must go! anyway, shoot me an email we'll work it out.
Never forget the flowers! Never!
well done collection of pieces! really diggin the textures. nicely done.
I think I like your mixed media work the best so far! Great color choices, textural feel and placement in your composition. The mix of traditional and tech is working well together.
Geez Scott it's a long way down to the bottom of your comments these days...
Not surprised, these "forget me nots" are intriguing and so well renderred.
Quite amazing to see the tecture of the acrylics going in different directions. At first on the small screen i thought it was wood grain in different directions, but that would have taken more than Friday night to Jigsaw!
Anyway thanks for the comments and great work again,
M
my favorites! and oh the tulip seem perfect!
Great work scott. Your flowers rule.
awesome work scott! love this style of yours!
Thank you for your post on my blog :)
Great work!!
These are exquisite! Your line is so graceful and elegant and the textures really add to the mix!
very beautiful flowers
There are so many comments here, and all what I would say, have been said! Anyway I'll say, that you've made some wonderful for-get-me-nots with exciting textures!
Many thanks for your advice with photoshop.
They're all really beautiful! The colors, textures, and design. I love them! And thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting, too!
the textures add so much to the work!
great looking colors and textures in these flowers
nice style
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