Cell Shading

Here is a piece where I tried out cell shading. It's hard to explain even harder to do but it came out ok. I did it only on the guy and the rest was just me playing around. So here it is, Enjoy!

A trip downtown

I finally got out the house and did something that wasn't work related, I know I got to experience life this week. So me and my friend Kyle went to the High Museum of art here in Atlanta to see the Sprawl event featuring Paper Frank who is a local known artist here in Atlanta. I had to say this was a much needed break for me because I needed it since I was feeling I needed some inspiration and I felt like I was going through the motions and not trying different things. So without any further here are some of the pics I took. So, Enjoy!

Double Exposer projects

This style has been the big thing lately so I thought I might as well try it. So I practiced it for a while and I got a couple of pics that I liked but I guess I'll show you guys all of them. 

Well here they are I hoped you guys Enjoyed. 

Zoe

This has to be one of the most interesting illustrations I've done in a while because of the story behind it. When I was running or working out the other day I saw this girl sitting down on a log with a sketchbook on her lap. Like any other artist that caught my attention right away so I approached her. While we were conversing Little did I know she was one of the most interesting people I've met in a long time but she was also young and wasn't an artist...kind of. She had some sketches or portraits in her sketch book but she mostly used it for writing. For now let's just call her Zoe. 

Lately I've been in a artistic slump but talking with her which I think only lasted about 30 or 45 minutes it was refreshing to have another person's take on life. At a young age she had experienced a lot and saw the world differently so in other words she was mature for her age. Well she was more mature than I was at her age I'll tell you that. We had our brief conversation and we went our separate ways but our brief conversation had such an impact on me. Like any other artist who gets inspired I drew her, I'll show my sketch and the finished product at the end. I write this to say, you never know what or who will inspire you and it's also great to get out the house once in a while. Great art is inspired by the people we meet, the places we've been, and the choices we make. Anyway, here is the artwork...Enjoy!

Mighty Morphin Bordeaux

A quick design I did in honor of the Jordan 7 Bordeaux that come out this weekend. I combined a OG Jordan shoe with an OG show I used to watch which was the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. This was interesting and brought back a lot of memories.

KD V8 Charmeleon

So this is the finished product of KD V8's. Like everything the colors didn't come out like I wanted but it turned out great. I'm thinking about doing a digital version but I might not who knows haha. Also, here is everything from the beginning sketch to the watercolor. I thought about this idea while at work and I wanted to continue the theme of pop culture and sneakers which I'm still going to do. So stay tuned for more, Enjoy!!

Jordan Bull

Well I'm trying out some coloring and here is the finished product of one of my sketches. I just need to clean up some areas probably go a little slower but it came out good, spent most of the day on it. I will say that I have to practice my coloring on photoshop so I can get better but for now I spent the whole day on this thing & I need to step away from it, & the computer. I'm slowly finding my computer coloring style, besides that today was a productive day. I ran 2 miles, fixed up my computer more, got some art done, now I can chill for a while. For now here is the finished product. Also before I go I was thinking about redoing the blog and making it look more professional but that is for another. Until then enjoy!!

Alligator Kyrie's

So I gave myself a project and you guys might have seen this before in the earlier post but here is the finished product. This all started because I thought Kyrie Ivring's shoes looked like alligators so I just went with it and it came out better than I expected. Here is the process from beginning to end, I hope you guys enjoy it. 

 

Things you might have missed. (Sketches)

Here are some sketches you might have missed. I was going through a shoe phase for the past week or couple of days now. So I fused animals and shoes together and it came out great. This is the month I finally get a new laptop so I can get back to digitally doing things but I am enjoying the sketches that I've been doing. But these sketches have been helping my creativity process which is to just go all out with no limitations. Well here they are, Enjoy!! 

Sketches of the week

I seriously have to get a new computer because not designing isn't working for me & sketching is becoming kind of boring because I don't sketch that often I guess? I don't know. I almost have enough money to pay for a new laptop. Ive done my research and now I know what I need in a laptop, it's just the saving up & buying it that's the hard part. Anyway here are some sketches from this past week. 

A world on top of a turtle

"A world on top of a Turtle" This is the best picture I could take of this on 18x12in paper. I wanted to sketch something fun and big plus my internet and computer isn't working so I have to keep practicing some how. This was challenging to be honest because I had to rely on my imagination & composition which was pushed to the limit. Sorry again if the post seem funny or look weird it's because I'm posting on my phone. Also I'm in the process of getting a laptop and have been doing a lot of research on which one will work for me for now & it has been coming along great. So stick around for me & Enjoy!!

Computer illustrations

Well I told you guys my computer won't let me upload anything so I took it upon myself to just take pictures of the screen instead. With these I just stood at the screen with my tablet did some sketches and turned some of them into paintings. They're not all the way rendered but that's what I liked about them which are unfinished but finished at the same time. When I do my rendered stuff I love my line work but couldn't translate them over to the finished illustration so instead I kept the line work. Hope you like them like I do...Enjoy! 

Let's talk

Hey guys I've been working on some stuff lately and I am always coming up with the same problem over and over again which is the images turning out blurry. So I decided to work on that while also practicing masking which is becoming helpful. So I did this little design if you want to call it that and post it up on Instagram @jhenry_117. Playing around with the settings I still see that my images are still blurry to me. So I decided to do some research on the matter and I will get back to you on that when I finally figure out the problem. So while I do that here is the art work:

So as you can see it is a little blurry at the moment so I'm doing research to fix this problem. Other than that I can tell you guys some stuff that's been going on like me getting into the graphic design program at my school, which is the highlight of my summer or year as of now. I still don't think I accomplished anything though I feel like I have a long way to go before I can become a great designer or be great at what I do. But none the less I am so happy I got in. For now I'm doing my research, trying new things, and hopefully I will see an improvement because I'm my greatest critic. 

In other news I need a new computer, printer, and supplies but I'm low on funds at the moment so even though this summer I will be working my butt off I still will have to work my butt off to buy the things I need to be successful or at least get me there. So if the structure of my post seem weird that is because I am doing them through my phone since my computer doesn't want to work. With that said I will leave you with some sketches and some stuff you might not have seen from me in a while or you might have seen it and I just forgot I posted it. Enjoy! 

 More info on this coming soon.