Pencil Sketch of a Tree House, Painted in Photoshop
Push yourself by giving yourself a time limit.
The world famous artist, Will Terry, (he’s famous in my world) sketched this little tree house during a really boring meeting. I know I know, all meetings are boring to Will. To me too. But this one was really boring. Lucky he had his sketch book.
He only gave himself a half hour paint it.
He liked the sketch and decided to scan it and
paint it using
Photoshop, but only gave himself a half hour to color it.
He wanted to push himself and see how far he could get in a short amount of time.
I feel it could look better, and would if he spent more time on it. But rules are rules. Sometimes it is a good exercise to push yourself by giving yourself a time limit.
Work the whole Illustration from general to specific
A lot of
artists will work their
illustrations from general to specific. When asked how they know when it is done, they might say. “It is done when it is due.” In other words they keep working on it, bringing the whole painting up to a finished point little by little. Working the whole thing from general to specific. So as they spend more time on it the whole piece gets more and more refined. Then when the dead line comes, turn it in, it’s done.
This tree house is still pretty general, but for some things it could almost pass as being finished.
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I did a book project awhile back, (it is TBT in my world or so I saw on Facebook) I worked on it with a wonderfully talented author and designer, Jeff Dinardo and it was a blast! It’s really fun to work with a great designer because the end product is so much more successful. Check out Jeff’s work – I’m sure you’ll be impressed! This is a cute story about a fox by the name of Fox, who smells Owl’s pies cooling on the stereotypical windowsill, as the sweet aroma wafts its way through the cool night air. Ignoring his limited climbing skills Fox begins up the tree to find a midnight snack. I won’t spoil the ending but everyone ends up having a good time.I really enjoyed dreaming up, designing and illustrating Owl’s tree house and painting the various scenes! Fun Stuff! Here’s a smiley face for you from all of us at folio academy 
