George Harrison Sketch

Hi All,

Well - it's been a while since I've updated the blog.  I've been pretty busy with school, but I also need to continue producing artwork...that's one of the things I do.  As a matter of fact I stumbled into a design project today - for a friend on Facebook.  That was a nice surprise.

So I saw this great old photo of George Harrison.  I've always loved the Beatles including George, the quiet one.  So I sat down with a selection of pencils and sketch book and thought I'd have a little fun.

The sketch after being photographed and
touched up in Photoshop.

Being relatively happy with it, I thought I'd post the sketch, but after downloading my terrible attempt at photographing the sketch I figured I'd clean it up in Photoshop a little.  So I added a little color around the edges and did a little dodge and burn to work on the tonal values.

Here's the scanned in touched up version
(first version).

Well, I couldn't really stop there.  So I started working a little darker color in around the edges with the airbrush tool.  I had to work on a couple touch ups and finish with a little bit of a sepia tone over all to give it a little bit of an "arty" touch.  Arty being a technical term - ha, ha.

Here's the sketch photo - took the photo of it taped
to my studio door with natural light.
(don't hire me to take photos)

I didn't spend a lot of time on it, but it was fun, and I probably spent more time on it than I planned, but thats just kind of the way I am.  Enjoy All and have a great week...I'll keep blogging (hopefully a little more regularly).

Aloha,

Tom