Colorizing the Graphite

I've gotten a bit of feedback about my portfolio, and more than one person has suggested I run with my graphite drawings. One of those people (an art director) said if I could figure out a way of colorizing those drawings, it would be awesome. An agent pointed out one particular graphite drawing and said, "I'd like to see this in color."

Awesome.

Here you go.

The original drawing:

The colorized drawing (click to see biggie-sized):

Me likey.

Small violinist, big room, part 3

Finished my drawing of Nick & Clarice, and here it is:

I did this one in graphite, both pencil and powdered. Here are the original sketches for it, if you missed those.

Small violinist, big room, part 2

Almost two years ago I posted a sketch that I had intended to use for a postcard mailing. I wanted to do the illustration in color, but I didn't start on it right away which meant I spent some extra time thinking about it. Some things weren't quite right in it for me, but until a couple of weeks ago I didn't take the time to fix the problems.

First off, here's the original sketch:

And here's the new sketch:

 

Not a big difference, but the new version made me much happier.

I also decided not to add color at all. I'm doing the whole thing in graphite with (hopefully) some really cool dramatic lighting. At least that's the plan. I'll post the final in a few weeks.

By the way, the boy's name is Nick and his friend is Clarice.

Dead Line

Here's one of the latest things I've been working on. It's a five-page graphic novel that follows a stumped graphic novelist as he is faced with a deadline "in five pages." I used graphite (powdered and in pencil form) and Photoshop to get the effects I was looking for. The image posted here is page one.

For those interested in how I'm working it, I had separate postcards made of each page and I'm sending them out to art buyers once a month (for the next five months) with a super-secret invitation-only Web page address on the back of each one. On the site they can download the graphic novel page as a printable pdf.