Al Fresco Art Challenge, Jan 19, 2020 -- Banner Graphic for This Site

Today’s Al Fresco Art Club challenge was to do something for my web site. I decided to make a banner image for this site’s future landing page. The landing page will feature my illustration work and will highlight my books. I want to (eventually) populate the site with my comic characters.

I did some brainstorming today and sketched several pages of potential ideas. I put the most time into the design below, with Jimmy Jay and Buddy Butterfly pushing massive letter block into place. I realize that if I want to get the idea fo “massive” across, I’ll have to make the blocks bigger or make Jimmy and Buddy smaller.

My work flow was:

1. Brainstorm for an hour and come up with a dozen graphite sketches.

2. Find the best candidate and ink it.

3. Photograph it and import It into Procreate.

4. Get confused and frustrated working with the iPad Pro.

5. Go back to basics: scan the sketches I created in step one.

6. Open them in Photoshop and feel better.