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Alfred Hitchcock (Lines Only), (c) Brad Reid 2005 ^,+,+-
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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