Annual Cedar Rapids Chili Cookoff 2013

Hot food for cold hands!  

Copier Man

My Iphone has an app where I can take a picture (over wifi) of whatever is on my LG T.V.  This was a CBS Sunday Morning news piece on a War World II veteran working in an office who is telling his war stories to an eager younger writer.  So I took a snapshot of him and made a sketch.

Look and Feel

Photoshop offers many methods to color in inked drawings.  In most of my work, I use different layers for the line, color, highlights, and shadows.  Here I try to experiment with different methods to see how they look and feel.  In the 1st example (top left) I use 2 layers, layer 1: normal color with a 50% opaque brush, and layer 2: black line .  The 2nd example, I use 4 layers, layer 1:one tone of gray, layer 2: one tone of color (using photoshops color layer mode), layer 3: normal color with a "pencil" brush, and layer 4: black line.  Example 3:  The 1st layer is many tones of gray followed by a 2nd layer of gray highlights and shadows, layer 3: flat color with photoshops color layer mode, and layer 4: black line.  With example 4, I used the same base of grays for layer 1 and 2 used in example 3. Then followed by "pencil" brush color with photoshops color layer mode, and layer 4: black line.  The last example I used reversed colors for a "solarized" look and finally the original sketch.

Pumping out Drawings Last Week at the Mariott