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The Alphabetical Anecdotes of Abnormal Animals

I've finally printed off a personal copy of my Alphabet book! It looks great in person, needs a couple of improvements but it's almost there.

Tutorial: Creating Atmosphere with Textures

A lot of people ask me how I make my illustrations look sort of painted or give them their non-computerised look. So to answer this I've decided to give you guys a tutorial of how I do it for my recent illustration of Forest Girl, Evie.

So, to start off with I created the way I wanted Evie to look in her basic shapes and colour, then I overlay a free paper texture to give her a little more atmosphere.

1) To do this first step I import the texture and give my image a white background, behind the blue circle. Then I move the texture over the entire image and use the transparency window and from the drop down box select 'Colour Burn'.

**TIP**You'll notice that this will darken your colours and give them more contrast so if some colours are too bright or now clash next to one and other lighten or even change the colour completely - so don't spend hours on the basic illustration's colouring before adding the texture!

So now you have a basic textured artwork, and in some cases this is enough to make that certain illustration Pop with atmosphere. But there are further steps you can take to make it more atmospheric.

2) For this next stage I play with shadows and use the inner glow feature with a lot of the shapes to give them their shading.

Focussing on the eye for a demonstration I use both the inner and outer glow effects that can be found under Effect > Stylise

To get the desired effect I go for a colour similar to the colour of the object but a little darker, I then play around with it's opacity and blur size, checking the preview every now and again to reach the look I like.

It's important to note that here on the eye I have done both an inner and outer glow for the white of the eye to give it an atmospheric 'deep socket' look and to give the eye some shape.

3) For this step it's about continuing step 2) throughout the whole face and altering the colours to perfect them with your chosen texture.

4) This step's just about adding some finishing touches and working on the background to really give some true atmosphere.

For this illustration I've worked into the background to create a forest with a small fairy in front. I didn't want the trees or the fairy to be in sharp focus to take away from the girl's face so I used the Feather effect under Effect > Stylise to give it that soft focus.

And thats It! So pull it all together and you get the finished article at the top of the post. Thanks for reading.

Oh, and here's the texture I used, and it's source

Illuniverse Submission - Dino Planet

I stumbled upon a great little project by Camilo Bejarano of Phlabs.com called Illuniverse and I had to submit my idea of little Dino Planet to Him!

Here are some other great ones from Illuniverse:

New Portfolio Website

I just created a new portfolio website using tumblr to present my work. I gave each piece a short bio and some background. Please head over and take a look.

Tony the Owl- children's tee

Say 'Hellooo' to Tony the Owl in new pastel colours. Hopefully soon he'll be on a tee available at decclo kids!

Board Game inspiration

I'm currently carrying out a personal profile pack project and i'm developing a board game about my life ambitions to introduce myself. I'm pretty excited about it. Heres something i found on someone's fantastic blog. If i can find out whose i'll be sure to post a link!

Tony The Owl, For Decclo.

I've been throwing together some more designs for the tees and hopefully Tony will become part of the Decclo kids section.

take a look at decclo:

http://decclo.blogspot.com/

http://www.decclo.com/

A little preview of my work in progress for decclo T-shirts

The lovely Laura Adams has been in contact with me recently asking if I would be interested in submitting some designs to the company she works for; Decclo. It's a a lifestyle and tshirt company with a print shop in Bremerton, WA.

I've never designed t-shirts before so I was totally excited to get on board with this project. I've got to get myself in gear and sort out some solid designs yet, i'm promising myself this following week as a deadline to get some promising designs down. I'm praying for a sudden wave of inpiration!

here's a few simple designs that i'm working on at the moment that may or may not become final designs:

Be sure to check out Decclo:

www.Decclo.com
www.Decclo.blogspot.com

Breakfast Fry-up for Illustration Friday

This little piggy is pigging out on a massive fry up. Don't worry, it's not real bacon - it's artificial bacon (facon)

p.s. sorry i haven't posted in a while, I've been house hunting in norwich. It's really rather stressful!

Silly Bear for Monday Artday

Silly bear, trying to blend in with the bees!

Rows of Houses in Copenhagen - doodles by milli-jane

I was in Copenhagen earlier this summer and found the buildings out there fascinating! I was doodling houses outside my window and started playing with them when they started to remind me of the houses in Copenhagen so that's what they became, sort of.

Diary for Illustration friday by milli-jane....again

I had a couple of concepts when I drew my little diary critter yesterday and this was one of them.
This little science fellow is tweeting his daily events in a sort of diary fashion on his iPad. How modern!

Diary for Illustration Friday by milli-jane

The theme for this week's illustration friday is diary.
Instead of having lots of interesting stories addressed to him, this worried little diary has a pile of urgent bills to pay!

I tried out two different style and I think I prefer the hand-drawn one. What do you think?

The Toe Fluff Project at the Post Modern Art Gallery

I've just submitted this little critter to Steve Rack's Toe Fluff project.

The exhibition will be at the Post Modern Art Gallery in Swindon, UK and will be on from July 27th - August 11th and profits go directly to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Here are a couple of other designs I made...

Check out the website and join in, but be quick, deadline is 15 july 2010

To Dry For - designer tea towels by Hello Wilson

I love the 'Storm in a Teacup' design by Hello Wilson

check out her other work , it's beautiful:

eatsleepdraw submission

I just submitted this doodle to eatsleepdraw.
Apparently it can take a long time before it might appear. Would be exciting to get selected though, fingers crossed!

iPhone Wallpaper - Geometric Globe by milli-jane

I threw together a couple of iPhone walls from simple doodle I made. Hoping to do more with this globe type symbol so check back! For now have a browse of the best iPhone wallpapers on the web

Giant Robot - Illustration Friday (IF)

I've decided to make my participation in illustration Friday more regular. So this is my first entry in a long time!!

My illo features a Giant clumsy Robot in Y-Fronts towering over Manhattan on the 4th of July. It was the first time i'd used the process of transferring my doodle directly into an illustration with colour and texture. It was really exciting!