A clown to start the year

sketch - profile of a clown
digital painting

Had to start the year at some point, and being January 12th makes me feel bad for not starting earlier. There are plenty of goals, plans and projects for this year and I hope to share some news soon.  Stay tuned!


Have a marvelous 2011 and be extra kind this year! 

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Sketch - payaso (clown)
photoshop

Every time I'm starting a new illustration I like to warm up by doing loose sketches. One sketch, one layer. One idea leads to the next one and I end up with 8 or so layers with doodles. Many times, that layer 8 is THE layer, the beginning of my final illustration.

What happens to layers 1 to 7? Well, they get tossed... But not anymore! In this time of recycling and reusing I cannot let those poor layers go to waste. I've decided that before deleting them from the original file, I'm going to save them in a smaller format and "finish" them. The quotation marks imply a sketchy finish, rather than a full-colored painterly looking finish.

Loose and fun. This is the "before and after" of a sad looking clown.
Here is to Layer 5, cheers!