character/ illustration style development

After establishing what media type I wanted to use I went on to develop this further. As mentioned in older posts, I have been inspired by how Eric Carle produces his work and the affect it gives.  He layers up different textures and paints over the top. I thought i would use this method with my pieces but also adding aspects of my own style to create a good balance. Below shows the process i have taken to create my Grandad character…

Sketching the character

Choice of textures materials

Transferring sketches on to texture

Base with textures to paint on to of. This
also includes layering.

Painted over

As the paint itself doesn't give enough depth to the
image, I manipulated the painting in photoshop to simply add
shadows and highlights using various brushed and colours.