Growing Family

A belated entry for the Family topic - a family of trees, growing together:



KL Bailey Art

Grow

This was my entry for Illustration Friday's 'grow' theme. I was going to skip that week but I'm a illo-holic. So I thought about growing and when there might be be a time someone wanted to grow and thought of this. I drew a quick little girl and sign in pencil, inked it, and scanned it. That took 10 minutes. Then I created layers in PhotoShop, selected the background of the illo and inverted the selection. I copied it and made it the top layer and then painted it. Then I searched for a photo of a roller coaster and a photo of paper texture. I added the paper texture to the background and shaded it. Then I cropped the roller coaster photo to where I wanted it and layed it over the paper texture, changing the size to where I liked it. I changed the coaster layer to "multiply" and the opacity to 60% which gave it that nice aged feel. All that took about a half an hour, making the total time spent on the illo 40 minutes.

grow

The challenge word on another illustration website is "grow". If you wish to see the story for this illustration, please CLICK HERE. It contains language that may be inappropriate for some. You have been warned.