While you wait, enjoy some cartoons. These two are Bronco cartoons I created during their last Superbowl run. Always experimenting, I had some fun with these.
Because I have to knock out these cartoons as soon as possible, I utilize a technique where I pen and ink in Radiograph, and then I color with vector shape areas underneath. Often times, this technique can look mechanical if I’m not careful, so I decided to play around with an app that I have that will convert any photo into a watercolor painting. It’s a pretty awesome app, and depressing at the same time, especially if you are a landscape watercolorist.
I brought my completed vector shapes into the app, had it converted into a watercolor before reapplying it to my pen and ink.
My only issue is that it made my cartoon much darker than my original colors. Being in a hurry, didn’t want to have to lighten up my cartoon, so I went with it. The end result is what you see below.
This next cartoon was a play on words that I thought made sense for the moment. Isaac Newton being known for hypothesizing about gravity, Cam Newton sharing the same last name, why not put the two together, highlighting Von Miller’s iconic glasses. I actually developed Bronchitis right after the Superbowl, so for three days, I was bed ridden. When I finally emerged, I wanted to knock this out as fast as possible.
I decided in order to do so, I had to simplify the values. Von Miller and the shadow he cast were to be one singular value, and the background another. Then for the people in the stands, I simply designed a quick and simple pattern that I could fill the area with. I was finally able to finish it four days after the Superbowl ended, although the idea actually came to me while lying in bed with burning lungs.
