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CHEF DESIGN- FACES
After finishing the fashion book I started back with the character design as the fashion book had a deadline whereas this project...

Jonathan Whittingham
May 5, 20201 min read


THIRD IMAGE
This was probably my favourite image from the collection of illustrations as the whole composition and colours seemed to work well...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 25, 20201 min read


SECOND IMAGE DESIGN
This painting came as more of a challenge for me, as I wanted to have flowers in the background of the image. However, I have barely any...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 23, 20201 min read


FIRST IMAGE DESIGN
This image was a lot easier to create than the front cover, once I knew the type of style and technique I was going for the rest came a...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 22, 20201 min read


THUMBNAIL IDEAS
I was becoming more confident with the images I was creating so I decided to produce more thumbnail ideas as I needed to make four more...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 21, 20201 min read


FINAL FRONT COVER DESIGN
I got there in the end lads haha! So happy with how the finally design turned out, everything works well together and the colours are...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 20, 20201 min read


FRONT COVER THIRD RENDITION
I was much happier with the way this landscape turned out compared to the others, it seemed more like what I was was looking for and it...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 19, 20201 min read


BEACH STUDY
I really enjoyed creating this study, I gained so much knowledge from making it. It taught me to really simplify shapes and to not go so...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 18, 20201 min read


CLOUD STUDY
I did some studies of different clouds. I needed to focus more on how I'm constructing the landscapes for the fashion book, so this was a...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 17, 20201 min read


ARTIST INSPIRATION
I started to think more about what I wanted the fashion book cover to look like and started to delve into what other artists are...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 17, 20201 min read


SECOND DRAFT
The second draft started a lot better, I went straight to painting this time and used a digital oil brush to create the painted feel in...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 16, 20201 min read


FIRST DRAFT
I started with a base sketch as per usual for the front cover design it was a nice layout and I think it looked alright. Started to layer...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 15, 20201 min read


HARDY FOWLER
I came across this artist Hardy Fowler who creates these beautiful landscapes. He makes lessons on SkillShare that go in depth of how to...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 14, 20201 min read


FASHION BOOK THUMBNAIL IDEAS
I decided to try out some more thumbnail ideas, using silhouettes instead, I watched this video by Noah Bradley and he goes into the...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 14, 20201 min read


ONE WEEK PORTRAIT CHALLENGE
I was on Instagram and I follow a page called "Paintable" they do tutorials on all sorts of thing, from landscapes, storytelling,...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 7, 20203 min read


MASTER STUDY
I wanted to delve more into studying how to paint digitally, so I came across this video which was about creating a master study. A...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 5, 20202 min read


DIGITAL PAINTING PRACTICE- PORTRAIT
I wanted to make something that was in my comfort zone to get back into the zone of creating things and getting use to the digital...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 2, 20202 min read


DIGITAL PAINTING PRACTICE- ROCK
At this point due to the situation with the lockdown and things were affecting me mentally, I decided to just take a step back from the...

Jonathan Whittingham
Apr 1, 20201 min read


FASHION BOOK INITIAL IDEAS
I started to collate images to create ideas for the front cover of the fashion book. With the first idea, I imagined house built from the...

Jonathan Whittingham
Mar 26, 20201 min read


CHARACTER DESIGN INITIAL CONCEPTS
With initial ideas of the chef/ hero character I refined the moodboard to some of the features that I liked. I then drew out some ideas...

Jonathan Whittingham
Mar 24, 20201 min read
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