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Tom teamed up with the Silicon Vally tech company The BlackLine to create this series of illustrations to tell the story of a company adopting their accounting platforms.

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It’s time to share some student projects! This time, from my latest @skillshare class, DRAWING TOWARD ILLUSTRATION.
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These are just a small selection from over 50 amazing projects. It was certainly hard to choose!
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The project in this class is to illustrate a workspace with a plant, a chair, and a figure. We build up to all this detail by breaking the project into smaller parts, drawing first from references and then putting it all together guy heart. This is my method of drawing more complex scenes in a way that is more intuitive, from heart, and consistent.
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I’m amazed at the level of effort and detail each student has put into their projects. The class is long and challenging, and these folks really stepped up!
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For more info about the class, please follow the link in my bio.
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#drawingtowardillustration #classprojects #skillshareproject #sketching #drawing #workspaceillustration #studio #illustration

More good deedly-doodleys, pulled from my recent work for @readersdigestca. Just be kind, alright?
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#spotillustration #sweetspotsillustration #editorialillustration #canadian #covid19art

Spots for @readersdigestca!
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#sweetspotsillustration #editorialillustration #actsofkindess

Excited to share some recent work for @readersdigestca! A cover, full page, and seven spots for the September 2020 issue. Based on touching stories of kindness during the first few months of the pandemic. Thanks to @_johnmontgomery for the opportunity and art direction!
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#readersdigestillustration #illustration #actsofkindness #covidart #facemask #sweetspotsillustration #kindness #spotillustration #editorialillustration

Here is Augustine. Augustine is a hippo. Hippos are hard to illustrate for me. One weakness of my style is that it’s better at representing familiar, inorganic objects than living beings. And so far I’ve worked out a few ways to represent a few living creatures with ease. But then you get these strange things like hippos with curves and features that I realize I haven’t fully understood or processed.
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To stylize something is to first understand it’s essence. What are those things that uniquely define it? And then how to translate those defining features consistent with the logic and mannerisms of my style?
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For me the goal is always to push what I represent to a more symbolic, flattened object. It should feel somehow complete in its own way, with little reliance on context. It should give the illusion that it was conceived and created with ease, as though there was no other way it could have been done, perfect in its own way.
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I never feel my work loves up to this standard, but it propels next forward.
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But here I’m just posting an illustration of a hippo. There you go.
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#style #illustration #hippopotamus #hippo #hippoart #zooart

An actual client project that was inspired very directly from my latest class, #drawingtowardillustration on @skillshare. This happens often, when one project informs the next one, or when something I teach becomes something I then end up doing more of. I realized today that there seems to be a trend of classes on @skillshare for which the project is to illustrate a scene, studio or workspace! Be sure to check out some other great classes from fellow teachers, like @mariannamadriz, @charlyclements, and @liskfeng.

Of course, please do check out my new class also! Link through bio. I’m super impressed by the quality and quantity of work so far. We are now up to almost 1000 students! Can’t wait to share some exemplary projects here soon.

The image above is about crafting the perfect love letter. For GQ France.

#drawing #illustration #artlessons #illustrationlessons #learnillustration #workspace #loveletters