A map commission I made for a lovely customer last week. He wanted me to draw him a map for Castle Rocks (where some of Stephen King’s books take place). I had a lot of fun drawing it & if you know someone who’d like a custom made map – write me an email, I’d love to draw one for you.
Here’s how the commission process would look like:
Find out how I plan an illustration from start to finish. First I decide what I want to draw and look up inspiration in the big wide web. Then I figure out the shapes and where I want to put things. Then I write a list of things I want to have in the picture, a garden gnome, a painter, pots, pans, toaster, marmalade, a pig lamp, amelie, photos … After that I look up references for those things (here all from the film ‘Amélie’). Then comes the messy line art and when I’m pleased with the outcome, I go over it with cleaner lines. Last but not least I colour it in 🙂
Little speed paint video:
Three maps I made over the last month or so. After next week I have a lot of time on my hand to make new maps and hopefully these will be in the shop soon too!
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights They will see us waving from such great heights Come down now, they'll say But everything looks perfect from far away
But everything looks perfect from far away
