Jamie Green
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Editorial Illustration Sneaky Peeks (RISO BRUSHES!)
🕑 Added 2021-06-11 19:25:26 +0000 UTCOoooh papa has been cooking up a storm, and by papa, I mean me. And by cooking, I mean illustrating, and by storm...I mean four finished illustrations in a matter of 52 hours. I wanted to share some previews with you, as well as the original sketches!
In case you didn't see my previous secret sketches post, I was contacted by a local publication called TOWN Carolina, because apparently their usual illustrator wasn't able to do the job in the time frame (or something like that) and they found A LOCAL GREENVILLE ILLUSTRATOR (that would be me). I think they must have found me through instagram (I often use hashtags like #greenvilleartist) or word of mouth. Anyways, this project would be a quick one: 3 illustrations, each one about a different summer adventure spot in the Carolinas. The turnaround was a week, start to finish. They offered $1500, I asked for $2000, and they met me in the middle with $1750 (they mentioned their total budget for this project was $3000 total, so I understand).
A couple days in, I got a call from the art director asking if I would be free to fit in one more, for $2000. (This is why there are only three sketches instead of four--the tubing one was the add-on). He apologized for the low pay (I could tell he understood, which was comforting) and told me he hopes that I will continue to possibly work for this publication on a freelance basis. I was pretty happy to get this offer seeing as he seemed like a cool guy, this is a local publication, and it's a nice break from book work with a quick turnaround--which I actually love.
Quick turnarounds are my favorite. I'm learning that book work is tough on my brain because it's so long-term and I get easily bored, crave instant feedback/gratification, and there tends to be less "fixes" with short-term projects like editorial. The last few days I would describe as me going "Coke Mode" because I have had so much energy and excitement to work on these editorial illustrations. It helps that the subject matter was something I really enjoyed--outdoor adventures are right up my alley, of course.
And can we talk about those risograph brushes?? This was my first time trying them out for this project and I felt like by the last two illustrations I was really starting to get the hang of them! I completed them in this order:
Fly Fishing, Underwater Diving, River Tubing, Mine Spelunking (so...from right to left in the image)
Can you tell my skills with the riso textures/layering got more refined? Maybe it's not obvious at all, but I felt like I got a lot more comfortable with it. I was looking at Lisk Feng's work, who is my personal riso brush HERO and overall favorite illustrator. I have used a risograph printer in the past, but I felt like I never really mastered the technique. These brushes are teaching me so much about color, overlaying and how to utilize texture. It feels akin to falling in love. I wish I was exaggerating. I feel like my excitement to just play around with illustration is back.
Also, now I want to go on an outdoor adventure.
-JG
Comments
LittleTinyEgg
I've been playing with those Riso brushes too, they are so nice! Lovely work as always Jamie
Ana Latese
I never thought about if my city had any magazines! I live in North Carolina and work freelance too. I'm going to have to shoot my city's magazine an email of my Portfolio haha!
Cheryl Wolf
These are beautiful! So happy for you!
Alyssa Maziarz
These illustrations look so pretty! Those textures work perfectly 💫
zuzu.draws.creates
This is gorgeous!! I am happy for you getting the gig❤️
Sabrina Gail
I would absolutely love a time-lapse sometime!! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this- that makes SO much more sense in my head now🌹
Jamie Green
I use the sketch (the “black and white” layer) as a guide, I draw on top with big shapes, each on a separate layer. I could absolutely post a time lapse video from procreate here on patreon if that will help visualize! Basically I have a lot of layers with a lot of separate assets on them.
Sabrina Gail
So I noticed that all of the trees are all different values etc- but is it all drawn on one layer? Or perhaps a layer for each tree/detail added? I just got the riso brush pack and I’m wondering if I should get the black and white values drawn down first like you did- but I’m just a little unsure about how to go back and add the color in to the black and white piece? Perhaps just an alpha lock on each layer, and I can color them each individually? Sorry I know this makes no sense over text!! Ahaha
Jamie Green
I’m not sure I understand, what do you mean?
Sabrina Gail
How do you go back to color in the black and white sketches??
J. Marshall Smith
Jamie, these turned out so well! Long term projects are rewarding but so much less fun than quick turn around editorial jobs and that's hard to get your head around until you're in it. These pieces look great and its good that you could do something with a different focus/pacing!
nene ⁕ he/they
These are all gorgeous but the spelunking one is Breathtaking 🥺❤️
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