Itstartedin82 is Tim Coon's weekly updated personal weblog that is used to document his current freelance work, sketch book, and other forms art that he is currently working on. If you would like to contact Tim for a commission you may email him at tcoon@itstartedin82.com or go to his website itstartedin82.com and fill out the contact form on the website.

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010

Southern Belle Bakery - Logo Design Colored

Finished up color. Sorry for all the copyright stuff.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Southern Belle Bakery - Logo Design

Here it is outlined. I used Illustrator and added a weight to the stroke.



Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Southern Belle Bakery - Logo Design

Here is a logo design I am doing for my friends. It is still v
ery ruff and I need to vectorize it and work on the typography. Not to bad though I really like the font.


Monday, November 8, 2010

Reed at the Gym!

This is what it is like for me 4 to 5 nights a week when I go to the gym with Reed. I know that I am not buff, but since I made Reed so buff why can't I add a little more muscle to myself. This was a rough sketch I made one Friday night and everyone laughed at it so much I decided to color it in using a little water color paint.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Christmas Card - My Process

Here is my process I used for making a Christmas card.
I only had 3 days to make this card so my process was a little rushed.

Part 1: Rough sketch.
Normally I make 3 or 4, but for time sake I only did 1.
Part 2: Outline
I outlined my rough in Illustrator. (Just a side note) Since they print the cards I made sure color mode was CMYK learned the hard way last year.
Part 3: New Stroke
The lines looked a little boring to me so I created my own brush and applied a new stroke to them to give them a little weight and more character.
Part 4: Import to Photoshop
Then I took my outline and imported it into Photoshop and made sure all my lines were black. Since I am going to be coloring and doing all the layout in Photoshop this helps speed up the process. (Make sure color mode is CMYK)
Part 5: Ruff color
During my rough sketch I marked up the character with what colors I wanted to use so all I had to do was paint bucket in the color to each section.
Part 6: Shading the character
To add a little depth and weight to the character I went in and shaded him up.
Part 7: Background
Since I didn't have time to illustrate a nice background I took a nice flat blue and added some snowflakes using a snowflake brush. I used 3 different colors to give it a little depth.
Part 8: Final touches
Then I added "Happy Holidays" and the company name with their logos in a Christmas style font. Then created a snowflake and a white blur for the boarder.


Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Peacock Shoes


Friday night I painted up some shoes. First I did a rough outline with a white charcoal pencil. Then I painted them with a black paint. Here is a picture I took of them before I cleaned them up so you can still see the charcoal and some lint on them. I will put a picture of them cleaned up later this week.