Josh Corken Blog: Valentines Day 2009

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Valentines Day 2009

I'm going out on a limb here by posting this before I've presented this illustration to my Valentine, but I don't think she will look at my blog. Since I've started my endeavors into the computer graphics realm, I try to find excuses to become side tracked and work on my own projects. Valentines Day is one of those, where I can have fun creating some really awesome, yet cute design. This year's illustration is tightly based on the one I did for Hanna last year.

By the way, the model is Hanna. Yes, I know, I'm lucky.

Anyways, I used this design once again because I like it so much. The original was one of my first experiments with painting styles and using multiple tools to manipulate a picture into this. I fell in love with the style just because it keeps so much detail and looks like it wasn't created on a computer. The brush strokes this time were supposed to create a feeling that Hanna has wings, but I did not want to overdo it, so this is what came of it. What do you think?

3 comments:

ZebFebruary 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Looks great josh! What did you do differently this go round?!
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Lance GoykeFebruary 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Hah, this reminds me that yesterday Mike said to me, "Your boy Josh is on it."

Hahaha, did he email you back?
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Josh CorkenFebruary 16, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Zeb, thanks! This year I changed the brush strokes in the background to hint at wings and then obviously tweaked the colors. Next year, I'll completely do a different illustration though, so don't worry.

Lance, glad to hear Mike thinks highly of me. Haha! He hasn't emailed me back yet though, so maybe give him a reminder? Eh?
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