Digital Portfolio

Started a digital portfolio. Planning to do about 12-20 pages. Sounds good for a nice little display.

ALRIGHT! ALL DONE! Took a bit of time but it came out not to bad.  What's next?

Taking FOREVER

You know those moments as an artist when things just take you forever to do and you don't want to rush it? that's basically what's going on with this. Due to the holidays this one has been taking me awhile. plus being unable to update this blog. Holiday plus working a lot is HORRIBLE. Anyway...Here is a general base color for these guys. Much more to come on this one!

Nice start to a bigger project :)

Back & At It!

Took me awhile to get back into editing this! But I am back! I will upload a few more projects that I have been working on. However, here is the landscape piece I was mainly focused on..

Wizard Tea

Wizards & Tea...

Sea Creature Take 2...

Completed this for a project and personal use. Now its time to print and display.

Video!

My friend Simon filmed me painting the sea creature for a project for school...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dyfmjebak75w1xa/Gilson_art_HD.mp4

Sea Creature

I want to work on this more, but overall it looks decent...

POST CARDS!

Step 1 - Thumbnails always help!

I recently got post cards made to send out to friends and family for Christmas this year. I will also be sending them out to employers when I FINALLY graduate in four weeks. Anyway, just to be fun, here is my step by step process of how I put together my post cards...ENJOY!!!

Step 2 - I lay out a simple sketch of shapes to get the formation I want.

Step 3 - One GIANT leap to a line/detail drawing.

Step 4 - Ink on tracing paper.

Step 5 - Scan

Step 6 - Print & point lines to what part of the figure I want to have colored.

Step 7 - I went into Cinema 4D Studio R13 to lay down some basic shapes, shadows and lighting to help give me a small general idea of how the lighting will hit the figure. Looks silly...but it helps.

Step 8 - On tracing paper I color in with a light blue color pencil where I want the dark lights to hit on the figure.

Step 9 - Bring illustration to Photoshop.

Step 10 - Even though it is on tracing paper, there are still a few messy parts that need to be cleaned up...

Step 11 - Adjust levels to get clean and crisp black lines.

Step 12 - Color layout.

Step 13 - Color shade layout

Step 14 - Word bubbles are always nice!

Step 15 - POSTCARD MADE! Time to send out!

worked on a few logo designs...better image on my website @ www.gilsonart.com

sketchbook update!

I am on my way to work and running out of time to post! but I figured I would still find time to make a small update on sketchbook!

New Blood

OKAY! Time to get this blog started! I have been SUPER busy with finishing up school, freelance work, working as a clerk at a meat shop, trying to make time for friends and family and exercise...But I am still managing to make it all work. 
I will be posting more work on here then on my actual website. I'll use this site just to get a generalized idea of how it is that I work to complete my illustration and design work.
Here is the first illustration I will share of a mercenary I worked on a long while back. He started out as a sketch turned to fully rendered drawing, then turned over to illustrator...ENJOY!