Initial, ugly sketch. |
In case you're not familiar with Ramona Quimby, she's a pugnacious and imaginative girl featured in a series of books by Beverly Cleary. The character has appeared in movies, on television and a stage play. My illustration of Ramona is for the Los Altos Youth Theater production of Ramona Quimby.
The theater needed a poster and a t-shirt design. The poster would be printed in color. The t-shirt needed to be line art only.
Digital sketch done in Photoshop. |
Once I had a sketch, I started the line art for the t-shirt. In the past, I'd do this type of work with a brush and ink, but I've gotten more comfortable "inking" on the computer. The Ramona illustration was "inked" in Photoshop. I traced my hand drawn lettering in Adobe Illustrator. Eventually, both elements (Ramona illustration and lettering) were combined in Illustrator and converted into a vector file for the t-shirt printer.
Line art version of the image for screen-printing t-shirts. |
Unlike the t-shirt, the poster art had no limitations. I based Ramona's color scheme on a production photo. I chose the yellow because it's a warm, eye-catching color – and the dark teal because it compliments the other colors while providing enough contrast to pop.
2 comments:
I love your work.
Would you be interested in coming to my school to talk to the kids about making a living as an artist?
Thanks, Mrs. Chili! School visits scare me but I need to start doing them. Send me an email and we'll make it happen:-)
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