Saturday, June 05, 2010

Shadows

Did this for a Liahona article.  The printed version I saw had different colors and lots of pixelation, so I don't know what went wrong (probably something on my end).  At any rate, now you can see what it was meant to look like:

29 comments:

Bobby Chiu said...

lovely illo Sam!

Dani Gómez said...

Amazing!!!

TREVOR Simonsen said...

This is so much fun to look at. I love how you got the entire composition to feel like it is coming down one the poor little girl

Chase Standley said...

fantastic! I love everything about this piece, from the facial expression to the lighting to the composition...beautiful.

Heather Dixon said...

Oh! This is lovely. And I love the angle too.

Chris Boyd said...

Beautiful.

K said...

Now why the pixilation in the print version, I wonder? Did they screw up the file and interpolate it into a lower DPI, I wonder? It can happen. Like if their software printed the thumbnail instead. And a color shift? Perhaps they didn't compensate for the workspace environment correctly. Are you using some weird color profile? This is a very nice illustration. I like the smoothness of it, and the interesting spectrum of shadow-blues. And I know how the girl is feeling, too. I remember.

Carolyn said...

Great job, I really like the way you arranged the shadows

vikram said...

This one is just great Sam.....Awesome rendering and lighting.....Yeah its true that print media has its own limitations about colors and we 'RGB people' always struggle with it. Keep posting keep inspiring.....

Abelo said...

Wonderful! What a beautiful palette. If only, the clock perspective seems slightly odd to me, but probably it's only because the rest is so damn perfect!

Patri Balanovsky said...

man... this is so sweet,Sam.
gorgeous lighting and color work,
as usual.
:)


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Jose Ramos said...

Wow ! , nice expression , her face is very cute , and the bunny is so sweet .
.Perhaps , it´s so blue saturate , but it´s a nice work.
see u Sam!

Hypnotic said...

very cool) as usually)

SEILER said...

Sam, your work is just beautiful my friend!

Gulzar said...

I love how all the elements of this illustration has been taken care of. It gives such a 3d appeal...

hahaha! a jump from RGB to CMYK! lol! man! its always frustrating for the digital guys...

Where can we see the printed stuff?
keep rocking!

Nikolay Popov said...

Fantastic mood and lighting, love the colors and all the small details. Just out of curiousity - how much layers did you use, and what's the actual size of this piece?
Great work again :)!

Tom Scholes said...

gorgeous sam!

mattanimation said...

I'm curious to see that article now, i will have to snag a copy to see that pixelation

OneSickIndividual said...

brilliant!

Michel Maas said...

finally something with a little nice story! nice!

Pamela said...

No way!!!! You drew this?! You'd think I would recognize my own brother's work, but...We just read that article for Family Home Evening last night! How funny.

Kash said...

AWESOME!!!!!!!! 0_o

Juan Bauty said...

Very very very impressive....

Tooninator said...

what a great feel to this. Fantastic!

Dirk van Dulmen said...

Very nice image Sam! It feels great! Love the colors and shadows.

Octavio E. Rodriguez said...

Really captured, the scene!

Lia Keyes said...

How deliciously creepy!

hedgehog said...

With mood.However as always)
Признаюсь, что эта работа вдохновила меня на создание собственного рисунка.=)

Needs Loomis said...

Nice! Did you work in industry standard CMYK? If not, keep in mind those mass production printing presses have nowhere near the gamut of a fine art photo printer, and thus do a shitty job converting from RGB.