Here is a little book that I made for Kerry. It's a trip around a well-worn bike ride called the 'Five Mile' that all of the kids strive to do. The process is as follows; take reference pics with iPhone, light pencil at twice the size, permanent ink tech pen (0.1), watercolour, photoshop to tweek colour / resize and print.
As you can probably tell (or not!!) there is a definite nod to Gipi's watercolour technique. I had just finished reading the wonderful 'Garage Band' and wanted to get into trying a bit of painting. His work is incredibly subtle when you look in detail, there is a fantastic balance between looseness and precision, together with a simple but effective use of colour that I have monumentally not managed to copy!
(Unfortunately the usually ace Hipstamatic hasn't rendered the reds very well, they're not that saturated.)
(Unfortunately the usually ace Hipstamatic hasn't rendered the reds very well, they're not that saturated.)
