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The final two Capital G portraits--the first one was fairly straightforward, but the woman's hair color in the last portrait was a project in and of itself!
These were, of course, a huge load of work, but overall I'm very proud of the work I did for Capital G, via the Concept Farm agency, who were nothing but a pleasure to work with. I'm delighted that right after finishing these portraits, they asked me to work on a different project for a different client, which is going on right now.
Three Capital G portraits, featuring my favorite portrait (the middle one) of all the ones I've done during this campaign.
More tomorrow!
Between the ups and downs of my personal life and working on a lot of client jobs that haven't seen print yet, I haven't had much time to work on (as if you couldn't tell that, from the dearth of posts in the last couple of weeks).
So even though I haven't seen any of the print versions of these yet, I thought I'd post all the new portraits I did for Capital G.
I was asked to do these new portraits using realistic colors, not Cap G's corporate ones, which of course led these to looking significantly different.
More tomorrow!
These are the last three of the Capital G portraits--at least the ones done in this color scheme.
Not too long after turning these in, I went to work on another batch, but with more realistic colors. And while I generally think the second batch came out a little better, these initial ones was an interesting challenge, having to use these day-glo colors in what are supposed to be photo-realistic portraits.
Three more Capital G portraits!
I already ran the ad that featured the woman in the second portrait, but it only showed a tiny portion of here--from just the neck up. If I'm going to do all that work of drawing her whole body, I want someone to see it!
When I saw the picture of the woman in the glasses, and saw all that detail on the sweater, I cringed--was I really going to have to draw all that?
I tried putting just some of the pattern in there, but it looked odd, so I just hunkered down and did the whole thing in stages, and now that I look at I think it it really only could have been done that way.
Still more to come!
Three more Capital G portraits!
I have to admit, when I saw the photo of the first guy, holding his saxophone, I groaned--would I really have to draw all that? Did he really need to bring that thing with him to the photo shoot?
The answer to my first question was yes, so one night I hunkered down and committed myself to drawing out the whole thing. By the end, I felt like Donald Pleasance in The Great Escape--blind and in a stupor, I wandered out of my chair and began bumping into things.
Luckily, I recovered by the next morning and went back to work...
Still more to come!
Three more Capital G portraits--the pattern on the first guy's shirt nearly drove me nuts; but there were even more complex illustrations to work out, which we'll see tomorrow...
Three more Capital G portraits--the first two were a little simpler, which were a nice balance to some of the others (like the third), which had a complex and detailed pattern on their shirt which needed to replicated.
Lots more to come!
These are three more of the pile o' portraits I did for Capital G, via the Concept Farm agency.
Since these portraits were going to be dropped onto different colored backgrounds, for each specific person I was given what one color to stay away from. In the instance of these three, it was a bluish-green, so you don't see that color on any of the above portraits.
Lots more to come!
Here's a third print ad featuring my illustrations for the banking firm Capital G.
I provided the agency Concept Farm with layered files so they could drop in any color they wanted to behind the portrait. Had I known the Capital G standard orange was going to be used, I might have gone with a slightly darker set of skin tones, so there would've been more of a contrast, but that's show biz.
Here's another print ad featuring my illustrations for the banking firm Capital G.
I ended up doing a full body portrait of this woman, but only the top third is visible here. It started out being fairly tedious, having to get in to such detail (down to the buckles on her shoes, her pendant, etc.) but in the end it became a sort of cool challenge, to get as precise and detailed as possible. You get some sense of that here.
One of the big projects that's been taking up so much of my time is working with the ad agency Concept Farm, for a print campaign for the banking firm Capital G.
I was asked to produce an initial batch of nineteen portraits--using Cap G's colors of pink, purple, and green--of some of the firm's customers testifying to Cap G's qualities as a bank.
Each portrait had to be highly detailed, and most of the portraits were of the people from the waist up, which we'll see examples of tomorrow. This ad lumps them all together, and seeing them all in one spot like this makes me relive just how much work went into all these--whew!
The print ads are running in Bermuda, where Cap G is located, so I won't get to see them around here. Thankfully Concept Farm--who were great to work with--provided me with some examples so I could see the final product.
