johnwoodcockillustration

I felt I’d reached the end of the owl illustrations for a while but like drawing birds so had sat down one evening and doodled a page of birds ( a couple of owls slipped in too, but more of those later). I was interested in getting a rough, hand drawn look to these images so I also drew some felt pen lines on rough watercolour paper, which I then scanned and live traced in Illustrator , and then made custom brush strokes from them, allowing me to apply a rough edged line to the drawings. here are the lines I drew and scanned…

I also included some short marks and some more woodcut style triangular marks, just to give me some more choice. I uploaded the sketches , placed them as a template in Illustrator and picked the best 4, then, using my favourite colour palette, an old vector pattern I drew ages ago and my custom brushes, came up with 4 new bird illustrations for my iStock portfolio…

http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/911920/?facets={%2225%22%3A%226%22}#600b398