Sprout in Photoshop

It's been awhile since I've posted any work.  Been busy working on illustrations for clients and updating my portfolio.  I have been working on Sprout's story a bit and some of the characters that he meets along the way.  One of them is an Aviator Alligator named Albert.  Al for short.  

Any who,  here is a illustration I did of Sprout.



© Mackenzie Bowles 2012 

medium: pencil, Photoshop CS5

The Big Bad Wolf and The Crow Bros.

I designed the Big Bad Wolf for the Children Book Illustration class I took last fall and now I'm getting the chance to make a whole story out of him! He ain't with the piggies no more. He's with the crows now. Don't mess with the crows or else...

©Mackenzie Bowles 2013

medium: watercolor, ink, pencil and Adobe Photoshop CS6

The Adventures of Sprout and Otto

Here's another piece that I concepted for Sprout.  This is what he looks like as of right now.  I'm still trying to get the feel of how he's going to look like.  I wanted to start illustrating his story and so far it's turning out pretty good.  I also want to concept the other adventurers Sprout meets; the octopus that is with Sprout, his name is Otto and he's a sailor.  These 3 panels is just a warm up of Sprout's adventure. Later on in the month, I hope to illustrate some more complex landscapes.  


©Mackenzie Bowles 2013
medium: watercolors, ink, pencil and Adobe Photoshop CS6 

"Swim Club" by Arden Johnson

One of the assignments for my Children's Book Illustration class was to  storyboard, create a character packet and make a dummy book for this story called "Swim Club".  I received a script about a little boy learning how to swim.  The characters name was Alex.  I decided to draw the Creature from the Black Lagoon as the main character of the story.  I also had to draw the bullies of the story too.  Overall, it was a pretty cool assignment.   Hopefully when I have some free time,  I will do a character packet for Alex Creature. 

© Mackenzie Bowles 2012-2013
© "Swim Club" by Arden Johnson 
medium: pencil, ink, watercolor, photoshop

Postcards

For Christmas I got a new set of watercolors and some paper.  The watercolors are called Dr. Ph. Martin's. I started experimenting with the new watercolors and boy was it fun! The colors are so vivide and beautiful! These are a bunch of little 4x6 postcards I created and gave them to my friends and mom.  

© Mackenzie Bowles 2012-2013

medium: pencil, ink, Dr. Ph. Martin's watercolors

Faux by Josh Bryant

This little dude is drawn by a good friend of mine, Josh Bryant.  He asked me to paint his little Faux character.  It was a honor to paint his little character.  HE'S SO CUTE.

© Mackenzie Bowles and Josh Bryant

medium: Pencil, ink. watercolor

Big Bad Wolf concept

After I graduated college in October 2012, I decided to go back to school for 3 months.  In that 3 months I took a Children's Book Illustration class.  One of the best decisions I have ever made.  The class taught me how to story board, character designing, and finally putting a book together.  I already learned character designing and storyboarding back at Ex'pression but, we didn't get as detailed as I had hoped.

  

One of the assignments was to to draw your own Big Bad Wolf from the Three Little Piggies story.  I usually start out with drawing a bunch of heads and from there I choose my top 2-3 heads.   After the heads comes the drawing of the bodies.  I had a hard time with choosing between the hillbilly Wolf and the nerdy Wolf.  My classmates and teacher Arden chose for me.  They liked how the hillbilly Wolf looked and asked me to continue on with him.  The next step for the assignment was COLOR! :D I absolutely love color! I have about 4 different types of watercolors.  I used angora water colors for the Wolf and it turned out really cool.  I've never used angora.  I've always used Newton.  Any who, everyone got a kick out the final version of the Big Bad Wolf.

The last image is a sneak peek.  I'm putting together a 3 panel story for the Big Bad Wolf.  Color will be next once I finish the last panel for this story.  I'll post the pencil and final version up later :D.