Welcome to My Weblog
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Welcome to Brad Reid’s weblog. In this new digital age, I can think of no better showcase for my new ambition, namely that of my becoming a self-sustaining, professional illustrator. Unfortunately, I have little or nothing to show for myself as of yet, so it is my intention that over the coming months visitors to this site will see the articles of a solid portfolio come together. After that, I hope you all will come by to see what I’m up to in my new working life.
My first offering is a little picture of Alfred Hitchcock that I did this past winter of 2005, during my last rush at a career as an illustrator. Although this picture’s creation was somewhat more circuitous than I intend to let on, in an ideal world it would have gone something like this: a scan of a pencil drawing was inked with vector brushes in Adobe Illustrator and subsequently coloured with digital chalk pastels in Corel Painter. Small alterations (small, in my ideal world) were made to the colours in Adobe Photoshop.
Vectors brushes are my means-to-an-end as of late. I enjoy the perfect curves that vector brushes deliver, and I enjoy working with just this sort of line drawing, free from large areas of shadow or cross-hatching, which is left wide open to the application of colour.
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Jan. 1, 2006: Due to popular request, the links on this post now include a view of a Time Magazine version of Alfred Hitchcock that I did on a lark.
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My first offering is a little picture of Alfred Hitchcock that I did this past winter of 2005, during my last rush at a career as an illustrator. Although this picture’s creation was somewhat more circuitous than I intend to let on, in an ideal world it would have gone something like this: a scan of a pencil drawing was inked with vector brushes in Adobe Illustrator and subsequently coloured with digital chalk pastels in Corel Painter. Small alterations (small, in my ideal world) were made to the colours in Adobe Photoshop.
Vectors brushes are my means-to-an-end as of late. I enjoy the perfect curves that vector brushes deliver, and I enjoy working with just this sort of line drawing, free from large areas of shadow or cross-hatching, which is left wide open to the application of colour.
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Jan. 1, 2006: Due to popular request, the links on this post now include a view of a Time Magazine version of Alfred Hitchcock that I did on a lark.
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December 24th, 2005 at 12:19 am
Glad to see you’re up and running, my friend. And thanks for the Grinch illustration…. I’ll get you back next year.
all my best,
dj
December 29th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
I’d love to see the Time cover version in colour! It was wonderful.
December 29th, 2005 at 3:21 pm
I chose not to post the Time cover, Jennifer, because I was concerned that it might seem a little pretentious to anyone that doesn’t actually know me. “You can’t share an irony with a stranger,” as Vonnegut once wrote. (No real Time ever cover actually happened, of course.) However, if you experiment with the little links just below the main illustrations, you can see some alternate versions of many things I’m posting. (Do you suppose other visitors are trying them?)
January 1st, 2006 at 9:28 am
I like the links and the key is in just the right place, but you are funny! That wonderful quote (you have to love Vonnegut) is probably more so.
I don’t think the cover would be pretentious at all. It was a hoot, and just too good not to share. (irony? not to the rest of the world. And this is the web. People expect to come across things like fake tabloid press pages.) It all depends on what you have to say about it, but I think folks would get a kick.
July 21st, 2006 at 6:36 am
Refreshing, Brad, refreshing. Keep at it. Expand your talent.