Roger Baillargeon / from Quebec Canada …. my home is located near the Peaceful National Capital. I’m Retired as a Public Relation Agent…
Roger Baillargeon / from Quebec Canada …. my home is located near the Peaceful National Capital. I’m Retired as a Public Relation Agent. My main Hobby is about re-arranging my photos in’‘Painted-Style Images ”...... Other Activities… I like to Write, RollerBlade,Play Hockey,Hike and Take Good Long Walks in the CountrySide…..... I’m easy living and I like to trade ideas and suggestions on all kind of topics. So feel free to get in touch with me on any given day at… rogerfern99@ hotmail.com Roger Baillargeon / Quebec, Canada… ...Hoping my photographs can help !! Warmly, Roger B.
Landscape,Iceberg,blue sky,blue sea,flowers and countryside images. ...my favorite combination in photograph…
Landscape,Iceberg,blue sky,blue sea,flowers and countryside images. ...my favorite combination in photography. What’s Yours Friends ? Roger B. ( rog99 ) Roger Baillargeon / Qc. Canada / http://redbubble.com/people/rog99
I always love finding blogs of my favorite artists sharing their creative process. Whether it’s on Flickr or on a Forum. It’s just nice t…
I always love finding blogs of my favorite artists sharing their creative process. Whether it’s on Flickr or on a Forum. It’s just nice to know they’re not so full of themselves that they are willing to give us the inside story of how they do their work. Unfortunately I can’t share the images of my work in this post but I will do my best to tell the story of how I create my work. 1. Begin with the ending in mind. / First, I get the idea. It’s usually spurred on by a photo or maybe an artist. Even subject matter. I read something the other day from another artist, he said: “Always have an idea, a story that you want to capture before you put pencil to paper.” This is what I try to do. The sketches that end up being full finished pieces are usually the ones with an idea or story behind them, no matter how small. / So that’s exactly what I do. Visualize what I want to see in my end product. Close my eyes and think and focus on the intension of the piece. Sometimes this takes some research for reference to find out what something looks like exactly. But if you’re doing something that you know there is no reference for it, just let your mind go with the flow. 2. Thumbnails: 90% Planning 10% Execution. / I almost always do thumbnails. 9 out of 10 times I do this. Especially with an idea that is complex and will be time consuming. I will do maybe 2 or 3 thumbnails of an idea. Usually to plan out composition. I try to apply the “Golden Ratio” where ever I can. With all my stuff there is usually a character or characters featured in the artwork. So I plan out where I want them. Review it over a few days. Then decide whether it’s worth completing. If I’ve done the process correctly up to this point then I go to step 3. My tip for composition: Learn the Golden Ratio and know what colors work together. Symmetry is overrated. 3. Scanning and Correcting. / I scan in my thumbnail which is usually about a greeting card size. Blow it up in photoshop to print it out at A3 size. If there is anything that I want changed that will help me when drawing the finished version, I will change it in the drawing with my Wacom Tablet. I can also quickly check if the colors I had in mind work or not. Contrast is very important when considering the how effective your Composition will end up being. The image at A3 gets printed out as two A4’s. I stick them together and get out my custom light table to sketch out the proportions on a clean piece of A3 paper. Tip: Remove what is not necessary. A great Zen practice. 4. Detail and Drawing. / This is definitely one of the fun parts of creating my artwork. Sometimes I add more objects or take away objects. I pretty much fill in all the detail I want to be featured in the final piece that will be colored up in Photoshop. I use a 0.5 Tech Pencil for everything I pencil. My tip for penciling: Make every line count, put intension behind every single line 5. Inking. / This is time consuming, but again very fun. I sometimes don’t use any ink, like in my “Fairytale Christmas” piece. But I decide at this point whether the line work needs ink or not. If the pencil lines are not good enough then I will ink. I use fibre tip ink markers of various sizes. But I generally try to keep all my line widths/weights the same. This is part of how I see anime drawn, so this is what I emulate. It’s appealing and neat to my eyes. My best tip for inking would be: Don’t press down hard. Glide. 6. Scanning Again. / Yes. Again scanning. I have to scan in two parts as I have an A4 scanner. This is tricky to keep each side of the page inline with eachother. Once in photoshop I try my best to line up the two parts of the page and finally I’m left with an A3 image. I lift up the levels of the image to darken the inked lines and to lower the grey scale. I’m then left with cleaning up an ink smudges or finger prints that might have not been rubbed out when I finished inking. My tip for scanning big pages on an A4 scanner: Use masking tape. 7. The Coloring In. / I love coloring. I use a A5 Wacom Tablet to color my linework in photoshop. / I set my brush to a solid line with pressure sensitivity on. So my lines go from thick to thin depending on how hard I press down. Not much to say here, except that I try to keep things simple. I use two tone coloring first and if I really feel like doing more I’ll add a third tone. Thats on the shadowing side. I then concentrate on any back light or highlighting tones, if needed. It usually helps depending on the scene. Again my coloring style emulates anime coloring. What I do sometimes is if theres a character I want to stand out more than others is to use gradients over various areas. It’s subtle but effective and not overwelming. In “Spirits & Demons” I went with a simple color tone bing pink of all colors. I’ve never done an Illustration that used a lot of pink. The reason I did this was to create a feeling of emptiness, slow motion down. It was an image with lots of things going on so I wanted to contrast that with simple use of color by making the image predominantly pink tones. The image also has a white background which is ultimate contrast. Again if I added a background of lets say, Clouds. It would just make the image far too busy. But if I made those clouds lower in coloration than the subject matter that would probably been okay. My tip for coloring: Choose your colors carefully. I do one more thing in all my images. Once everything is flattened into one Layer. I saturate the colors. Then I use Color Balance to add more Red or Blue to the image. It gives it a more unified tone. It’s all about tones. Hope you enjoyed this and that it helps you in some way.
My colouring book is now available in print or digital download format. 21-page book with illustrations from travels in Northern Aust…
My colouring book is now available in print or digital download format. 21-page book with illustrations from travels in Northern Australia, India, / Thailand, Pakistan and Afghanistan border regions. / UK English Version / US English Version Preview more images from the colouring book
The following are some of my resent card designs. / I thought I’d do some vector work. / they are also available as prints ect… enjoy!! / ...
The following are some of my resent card designs. / I thought I’d do some vector work. / they are also available as prints ect… enjoy!! We have matching buttons on our blog / / / / /
A quick and easy addition to your Photoshop or Illustrator setup. Here’s a Swatch Exchange file that you can add to either Photoshop or …
A quick and easy addition to your Photoshop or Illustrator setup. Here’s a Swatch Exchange file that you can add to either Photoshop or Illustrator with all the Redbubble T-Shirt colours. If you use Illustrator then you can just use my Illustrator Template – as that’s already got the swatches added. How to Install Download it from my site and extract to either your Photoshop presets\Color Swatches folder, or Illustrator presets\swatches folder. It’s not essential but easier to remember if it’s where the app looks for swatches. To import into Photoshop go to the swatches window and in the flyout menu select ‘Load Swatches’ and select ‘Swatch Exchange (*.ASE)’ as the file type. To import into Illustrator do ‘Open Swatch Library’ from the swatches window instead The colours will appear in your swatches all named ‘RB ….’
‘Inner Vixen’ - FEATURED TODAY! ...
‘Inner Vixen’ - FEATURED TODAY! I was happy to discover my work Featured yet again in this group… / This means so much - Thankyou ARtrageous RB ARtists!!!
Thankyou ‘Works on Paper’ for Featuring my watercolour self-portrait THIRD BORN !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ula…
Thankyou ‘Works on Paper’ for Featuring my watercolour self-portrait THIRD BORN It’s so nice to have artwork appreciated and recognised by other artists, thankyou again!!!
THANKYOU ARTRAGEOUS RB ARTISTS for featuring my Artwork & T-shirt!!! Emerging Perspective !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/si…
THANKYOU ARTRAGEOUS RB ARTISTS for featuring my Artwork & T-shirt!!! Emerging Perspective Forked – Consumabe T-shirt
‘Inner Vixen’ - FEATURED by ‘QUORN’ Thankyou!!! Inner Vixen !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:mai…
‘Inner Vixen’ - FEATURED by ‘QUORN’ Thankyou!!! Inner Vixen
Thankyou Visual Texture for featuring my artwork FRUIT ON!!!! I !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/view:main/170681…
Thankyou Visual Texture for featuring my artwork FRUIT ON!!!! I
Thankyou Unconventional Artistry for featuring my painting! Make me a STAR !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ularge/v…
Thankyou Unconventional Artistry for featuring my painting! Make me a STAR
MASK feature—- Thankyou STRICTLY FACES! MASK /
MASK feature—- Thankyou STRICTLY FACES! MASK /
Friends, / Wanted to let you know that I’m having an exhibition in Yorkshire, UK from 12th-22nd March. Projeto Gallery : 84 Kirkgate / ...
Friends, / Wanted to let you know that I’m having an exhibition in Yorkshire, UK from 12th-22nd March. Projeto Gallery : 84 Kirkgate / Silsden If you are anywhere around, do visit… would be great! cheers / Archan
Damien has opened the second challenge in the ‘Elements’ series for entries over at the International Superheroes of Illustration:...
Damien has opened the second challenge in the ‘Elements’ series for entries over at the International Superheroes of Illustration Tone refers to the lightness or darkness of a colour. It can be used to highlight elements, bring them forward, add texture or depth. A good understanding of how light falls is essential. This one will be open for a bit longer than the last to allow people to get their entries in. You have a month to think about your entry and really get something good in. Think of it as a school assignment. Do some homework) and learn some shit, and then give us your best shot.
Hey all, There’s a new challenge over at the International Superheroes of Illustration ...
Hey all, There’s a new challenge over at the International Superheroes of Illustration group, and the theme is Colour This topic is particularly close to my heart. For a long time I wasn’t considering colour harmony in my work.. I would put down the lines, pick the colours and just go with it. Stuff might look okay.. but it didn’t really gel and feel like a complete piece. When I created this piece I decided to do something different. I had found a small photo (someone’s avatar on facebook) and I remember thinking the warmth of the colours was really impressive.. so I pulled a colour palette from the photo and used it for the image. Now of course that image isn’t perfect, but I was actually pretty happy with how the colours turned out. The overall effect is (hopefully) fairly warm and cozy, which was what I was aiming for. Since then, I don’t start a work without first considering the colours individually and how they will work with each other. I will create a palette to work from, testing out the colours next to each other and making sure it all works. Like I said, my work is far from perfect.. but I think the likes of this one is much better than what I was doing before.. and the colour use does help make the picture feel more complete. So that’s the story about my constantly evolving relationship with colour. I hope the illustrators and painters out there will head over to the group and submit something to the challenge, and also maybe post their own experiences and influential work in the forum So what are you waiting for? ;)
Win a US$30 RedBubble Voucher! Sorry about the caps, but I’m quite excited. The kind people at RedBubble have donated a US$30 voucher …
Win a US$30 RedBubble Voucher! Sorry about the caps, but I’m quite excited. The kind people at RedBubble have donated a US$30 voucher to the Colour Challenge That’s right. The winner of the challenge will walk away with a US$30 RedBubble Voucher .. that’s enough to buy a tee, or a few postcards, or maybe you want to put it towards your large framed print :) If you haven’t entered yet, you have another 25 days. Good luck!
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