Tulips and Chimneys Valentine's Day illustration

At the beginning of this year I began working as a digital painter at an animation and concept development studio in Cape Town called, Tulips and Chimneys. This is an artwork I created as a promotional piece for Valentine's Day. The image directly below is the final piece.

Below is the original line drawing that I scanned into Photoshop to be painted. It consists of various separate line drawings: the central creature on the mound, the border, and the banner. All comped together in Photoshop. Other elements such as the foxes and the birds were added later. 

Below left: The thumbnail sketch. Below right: Pencil sketch.

The line drawings were done using a Uni-ball Pin 0.05 mm pen.

Bottom left colouring in Photoshop on the Cintiq24hd, and the final print on archival paper on the bottom right.

Cloo Title Font

Playing around last night in Photoshop with a title for Cloo.

Colour Studies

Some colour studies that I have been doing over the past month. I have also been busy with an online course from Nathan Fowkes on Schoolism.com called "Designing with Colour and Light" which has encouraged me to do more of these.

The studies below are from observing the art of Noah Bradley.