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The Tyranny of Distance

Over the past month I have completed a few illustrations for Copeland Publishing’s parenting magazines (Melbourne Child, Sydney Child). This is a one of two illustrations for an article entitled ‘The Tyranny of Distance’ for the April 2010 issue.
In it a mum writes about how her three year old daughter connects with her young cousins who visit briefly from Italy.

Many of the magazine’s illustrations are in a cartoon style but for this one the editor Sean wanted to go for a more naturalistic, concept-based approach.
I decided to focus on the girl and show her in a reflective mood maybe thinking about her cousins who had just left on their long trip back home
I have roughly outlined my process below from thumbnails to final art.

Completed illustration
The completed illustration.

Final pencil drawing
My final pencil drawing that i scanned in at 600 ppi and then reduced to 300 ppi. I cleaned it up a bit in Photoshop and it was all ready to colour.


My final rough sketches. I was getting closer to the want I wanted with the one on the right. A sort of combination of my reference photos.

Development sketches
More developed roughs. A bit too close to my photo reference (left) so I went for a more impressionistic look (right).

Roughs for The tyranny of distance illustration
Early sketches working from my reference.

reference photos
This photo of a girl with her reflection was my main inspiration. Love the wistful contemplative expression. I wanted to get a similar feeling in the drawing. Photo reference from Flickr.

thumbnails
Thumbnails showing various compositions. Originally thought of including the Mother.
Sorry for the delay in updating but I was plagued with some major computer problems. Anyway it was finally resolved this week by having a new hard drive installed in my iMac. Everything working well now.

Femme Fatale

femme fatale sketch by Eddy Crosby

Focused


Here is my first submission for Illustration Friday. This week’s topic is “focused”.
Medium: Col Erase blue pencil, Pentel brush pen on detail paper.



Rough sketches.

Emotions

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Characters showing anxiety and anger.

School diary roughs

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These are some development sketches for the school diary assignment.
Medium: A3 Detail paper, pencil, PITT artist pen, Pentel brush pen

Sketchbook pages

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A few female characters I drew in my sketchbook over Christmas.

Moleskine sketches

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Here are some pages from my Moleskine sketchbook. As you can see it doubled as an autograph book when Anna Karina came to town earlier this year. Some of these are inspired by her and another sixties actress Yoko Tani (the girl in the spacesuit).

The drawings on the last four pages were done with a new pencil i am trying out, Faber-Castell’s PITT oil based pencil (black). Thanks to Justin Coffee for putting me onto these. They are available in a variety of grades but Melbourne art stores only seem to carry the extra soft grade.

You get a wonderful range of grays and a nice rich black similar to a black coloured pencil. Light lines can be erased and are smug free. They sharpen well and at $AUD1.80 a real bargain. Check out the review at Penciltalk.org here.

Almond eyes

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A few sketches I did today. I am trying to work out a pleasing eye shape and went for the almond or tear drop look.

UFO

Moonbase girl by Eddy Crosby
Have always loved those Moonbase girls from Gerry Anderson’s UFO. This drawing is based on Commander, Lt. Gay Ellis (Gabrielle Drake) though I wasn’t really going for a likeness. My first attempt was too realistic so I placed a sheet of detail paper over it and stylised her as much as I could.
Medium: Col-erase blue pencil, detail paper, A4 size

Stingray

Troy Tempest sketch by Eddy Crosby
Troy Tempest from Gerry Anderson’s Stingray

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