Here’s a peek behind the curtain at some concept development I do for different projects:
Sketching is my most preferred method of experimentation and purging crap ideas. When it feels like the idea might work, I leave the sketchbook and proceed to building the design digitally.
The sketches shown here aren’t all the ones I made for each project; sometimes there’s pages of doodles and thumbnails. Some concept sketches are extremely rough, like with the Bal Jam example; from time to that’s good enough to get rolling. Experimentation still happens at the digital stage, so often the final product looks different from what I sketched initially.
I spoiled myself with a trip to Delta and bought a bundle of new art pens. Lately my favourite thing to do is mess around with kraft paper. Both the colour and the texture make a really lovely background for drawings.
A person can live in Edmonton for years and not know about the weird and wonderful subcultures that exist here! So from time to time I like to mention such a group, as it might be up your alley.
I’m on a mini vacation and decided to make myself a postcard. At the time I assumed that nonstop rain was just a feature of Victoria; turns out that my trip coincided with what the locals call a pineapple express (some kind of tropical weather phenomenon). Sketched with a 0.1 art pen plus a Sakura PenTouch gold pen. Happy with the gold pen, because it gives a really rich, yellow gold!