Illustration Friday-"Plain"
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This is my entry for IF's "plain". I guess I'd call it "How To Have Fun With A Plain Piece Of Paper". Hope the instructions are plain and clear too. Was directly inspired by Red Dog And Jude's great instructional entry last week!
Per my usual modus operandi, did vector lines, painted an actual "skyish" background with acrylics and combined in Photoshop. A fresher color palette too!
*****Any one want to send me photos of their hands??? I am looking for fun hand images to draw from others. Why don't you consider taking a photo of your hand or hands doing something interesting and I'll draw and post. Hope some of you take me up on this!!! Send photos to "scott (at) scottcuzzo.com, replace the "at" with the at symbol and use no spaces...*****
Also, does anyone know a good way to take acrylic paint and make it "sprayable"?
posted by Digital Scott's Illustrationblog at 5:10 PM
56 Comments:
Great illustration. I love the background color and texture.
You always come up with great illustrations! Very nice.
I will see if I can photograph my hands one of these days...as for the acrylic paint, I think you would need to water it WAY DOWN before you could spray it. I don't see it spraying very well.
i will definitely send you a picture of my hands, where do i send it to?
very very watery and then do it very very quickly.
Great illo!
So cool! I may print this one out for my kids to use, is that OK?
P.S. I'll try and send you some hand photos!
thanks for visiting my blog!
Kr cat´s and dog´s
Sprayable Acrylics... I've done large paintings this way. Get those $0.99 squirt bottles from Home Depot usually used for cleaning. Mix and shake in enough Acrylic with water into the bottle, (lots of water). Try not to use cadmiums or other toxin based colors. (And use a spray mask). The squirt bottles with the twist nozzles are good as they give varying sprays from fine to full stream. Have fun. Thanks.
Also - go to Starbucks / Peets, whatever, with a book of prints, show a few off, and ask strangers if you can photograph their hands? Meet some interesting people in the process of doing so... ?
Also - in sprayable comment I forgot to say, get about 20 bottles so you can mix up a lot of colors ahead of time to use.
You always come up with the most ceative ideas! This one is a beauty, as are all of your other works. I love your style.
PS- Thank you for commenting my blog so often :]
Great idea for this week! My plane keeps crashing though....
Will try and think of a pose for my hands too!
Cool as ever! Where do get these ideas!
One of my favorites of yours! Love the colors.
I think they make acrylic airbrush paint. I've seen bottles of them at my local art supply store. Not sure if it's Golden or one of the other guys...but it's out there!
Fantastic.
Love all the work here, esp. the quilt. Thanks for the blog comment on my IF horse. Keep up the fun blogs! Let us know how the acrylic spray goes. Ditto to comments ab that here. :)
Great hands, as always!
Vectors and acrylic is a really interesting combo. Excellent results too.
That is pretty awesome...one of my favorites. I know you like to do different versions of items...I wonder how much 'pop' you could get if you changed the color of the background shapes of the smaller panel to orange, or green or something so that there is a greater sense of depth? Great texture to the background and would love to have this one hanging on the wall...
Brine, my initial thumbnail sketch did have orange background for the lower panels!!! I might still play with it, but the orange, while it looked great with the blue, made it much harder to discern the action of the hands.
Found this IFer that also did the same idea as me...
http://srtapil.blogspot.com/
I always like instructional diagrams. Especially nice with the painterly background.
i am such a sucker for instructional illustrations. i'm totally jealous! yeahhhhh.
Love the unique look of all your work. The clarity of design and choice of color are always good. Simple, strong, clear, and beautiful. Great stuff.
tnx for your comment...actually the way you depicts hands is terrific!
want to see my hands? click here, please
http://beuysboys.bitlosophy.org/2006/01/27/attorno-a-geopuzzle/
very nice illo. so weird, I did a couple paper airplanes, too. Not as technical as yours, by far! You are so good at detail!
Scott, it might be called plain, but it's not. It's very creative. I haven't made a paper airplane since grade school. Thanks for bringing back great memories.
Mike Limon
http://www.mike-miscthoughts.blogspot.com
Absolutly clear, the concept and the execution, excellent work, i mean it!!!!!!
P.D.: Excuse my awful english!!
great Illo, you rigth! i like your style!!!!
That rules scott. I like that motion arrow. It adds alot to the concept.
Wow, that is quite an illustration. I've noticed that a good deal of your illustrations are just really solid. How do you find the time to make an illustration every week? I always have a hard time making one consistently each week!
Great job, you overachiever you!
So precise. Great work!
What a very creative interpretation of the theme!
And I really like your style.
Thanks for your comment and have a great day!
Denise
Nice, very nice works here! Love especially colors you use and clear ideas!
Thanks for visiting!
The "Porse" is very difficult to track down. Once I saw the definition of "Plain Quarters" I couldn't stop myself.
You've produced another great piece..
The best ideas go the farthest!
very clever! A plain plane!
very clever and original! love the backgrounds you use!
WE love the way you do hands. Please do ours!
Fantastic! Lovely colors this time ;)
Simply elegant!
Oh, good illustrations of hands.
Golden makes a line of liquid acrylics that can be used in spray -- although I still believe that they are too thick for an airbrush. Check out Daniel Smith catalog.
Wow, a really effective illo. Nice job.
You always do such fabulous illustrations, great take on the topic.
I love the choice of blue in this piece! The tutorial is very straight forward and easy to follow. :) As always, great work!
this is so great! very nice idea!
I'll see if I have some pictures of my hands or if I can take any!
thanks for passing by my blog!
wow this is fantastic!
Hi Scott! The best sprayable acrylics are by FW Acrylic Artists Ink. They are so fine and well made you don't have to do a thing but pour it into whatever you are using to spray with. They have built a dropper into the lid so you can drop out just the right amount, which is good cuz they are pricey. If the paint isn't strained it clogs and won't work well. That is why this brand I consider one of the very best! Love your piece it is excellent and i do love a beautiful and well-made instructional. I will send a picture of my hands. They are child-sized but they have seen a lot of hard work.
Awesome work! Loved it!
Great, love the colours and texture
great submission...love the blue and the instructions...
Great work....
Cheers,
Diana
I always look forward to seeing what you do next with your hands (awful pun fully intended). This is one of my favorites, I think. Love the bright colors (are we all getting sick of winter?). There's something a little...I dunno...perverse? ironic? about providing instructions for something as simple as a paper airplane. It's like reading the instructions on the back of a bottle of shampoo. I love that kind of thing.
You have an incredible work. I am glad to have discovered you!
Beautiful graphic piece, Scott!
Very effective the way you chose the turquoise and blues and the clear numbered inserted manual!
I'll check if I find a portrait of my hands..;P
Beautiful graphic piece, Scott!
Very effective the way you chose the turquoise and blues and the clear numbered inserted manual!
I'll check if I find a portrait of my hands..;P
Wow, how I missed it last week? I find so difficult on doing hands. Yours are just perfect. All the idea is so good.
wow, look at all these comments!!! Its very enjoyable seeing your hands week after week...they are very expressive and tells an interesting story.
Plus they are hard to draw and you draw them well!
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