As my recent unprecedented busy streak was drawing to a close, I’ve took a few moments to do something creative that was outside of my employment responsibilities. My brother, Philip, who has done some contract work for my ministry as an illustrator, has spent some time with me this summer furthering the capacity to express his talent by learning how to digitize and color his illustration, a job that I had done for him in the past. He picked up very quickly and produced an illustration of himself and colored it in the industry standard software Adobe Illustrator. I was well pleased with the work he had done, and wanting to get in on the beauty of it some how I confiscated a copy of the Illustrator file and threw into Adobe Photoshop to produce the grungy image above. I kinda liked the way it turned out, although I must admit I do enjoy better just looking at the illustrated image by itself with out all the grunge and digital dirt around it. Clicking on the pictures will take you to a larger version of the images. Clicking on the processes image takes you to an images that describes the process in more detail.
Another thing you might find interesting — I’m not the only one, apparently, who thinks Philip’s work is pretty cool. Recently he submitted a colored illustration of one of his homeboys to a notable sneaker shop in Chicago. The character in the drawing was wearing a shirt with the company’s name on it. Shortly thereafter they posted it on their website. You can check it out here: http://leaders1354.com/v2/?p=473