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    ajillustrates

    @ajillustrates

    I’m an illustrator/designer with a passion for creative motion graphics animation, and a father of two kids.

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    Website ajillustrates.com Location Dallas, TX Age 36

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    • RE: SEPTEMBER CONTEST: Ink Fairy

      It's been awesome seeing everyone's entries! Here's mine. I wanted to approach this illustration as an extension of my Inktober 52 series - just my brush pen and linework (with a little digital cleanup right at the end ;))

      Ellie-and-the-Ink-Fairy_SVS.jpg

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio December 🎁 2019

      Oh, and I forgot to share my favorite piece that I worked on this year. It was this Adventureland poster, because it let me define a new detailed, retro style for myself in vector, while limiting myself to 7 colors. Also hippos.

      Adventureland.jpg

      posted in Artwork
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    • My Inktober 2020: One Big Piece

      The first time I did Inktober, I did daily sketches and stuck to the prompt list, so this year, I wanted to try something different. I chose to challenge myself in multiple ways: create one scene for the entirety of Inktober, make it so that all the characters have to interact with each other, and work traditionally (meaning that I wouldn't have the option of drawing the characters separatly and pasting them together, or undoing my way out of layout or rendering mistakes). Since that seemed like a difficult enough task, I decided to make it a fan art piece, and went with the Battle of Hogwarts. Maybe 3 Point Perspective's running gag of using a civil war battle scene as an example played some part in that decision.

      I like Jake's rule of planning 3 uses for each piece of art, so 1) this is my piece for Inktober, 2) I will be painting it for Slowvember (I'm drawing it on 300 lb watercolor paper), and 3) I'll used a scanned version of the final drawing and the traditional painting as a guide to paint the piece digitally as well.

      Here's the progress for Week 1, Days 1-4:

      Week 1 Progress.jpg

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio February❤️2020

      Painted this piece for an exhibition this coming weekend at a local gallery in Dallas. Love working traditionally, and I'm focused on finding more avenues to do so this year.

      Little White Lie_Social.jpg

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: My Inktober 2020: One Big Piece

      The final drawing!

      Andrew-Johnson_The-Battle-of-Hogwarts.jpg

      BH2 copy.jpg

      BH10.jpg

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: OCTOBER COMPETITION TOPIC: MISUNDERSTOOD MONSTER

      Here's my first time posting to the forums! I made this little big guy in response to the "breakable" prompt for Inktober. I had a blast getting away from the computer and getting my hands on real ink and watercolors.
      0_1541037196442_Baby-Krack_SVS.jpg

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio MAY 2020 🌸

      Playing with Spectrum Noir and Copic markers this morning.

      Red.jpg

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio December 🎁 2019

      Finally able to get to a project where I need to create groups of animals for 9 posters, and just completed the first group tonight. Also, I think sometimes you just have to illustrate a happy pig.

      Pig-and-Friends.jpg

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: Inktober 2020 - Week 1

      Day 1: Kreacher. This year I'm doing the whole thing with my brush pen on one 12x24" piece of 300 lb watercolor paper, so this guy's only 3.5" tall.

      Day 1 - Kreacher.JPG

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: My Inktober 2020: One Big Piece

      Alright, things are starting to fill out and come together. Here's the progress through Week 2, Days 5-11.

      Week 2 Progress.jpg

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    Latest posts made by ajillustrates

    • RE: I got published!!! :D

      Congratulations!!!

      posted in Projects
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    • RE: JANUARY CONTEST: YETI HOME

      @Gaelle-Grizzly Beautiful work!

      posted in Announcements
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    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio JANUARY 2021!!!!!!

      My second entry in the jungle and exotic animals poster series visits India. I realize now how much I’d love to illustrate “The Jungle Book.” Gonna go ahead and add that to the bucket list.

      Rhino-and-Tiger.jpg

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio JANUARY 2021!!!!!!

      @Braden-Hallett Great idea! Way better than my opening the last PSD file and clicking through every layer's blending mode when I start a new project.

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio JANUARY 2021!!!!!!

      First illustration for 2021 is my entry in the Robot Arena Deathmatch Character Design Challenge.

      Robot-Arena-Deathmatch_Final-Render.jpg

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: Separate Instagram Accounts?

      I have three Instagram accounts - one for all my illustration work, one for my sculpture work, and one that's only for posts about personal life and my kids. But I don't split things up for based on the media or intended audience (I let the hashtags do that), so on my aj.illustrates account there's a mix of sketchbook work, pen and ink, watercolors, vector, and photoshop, because it's all me. For that same reason, I do cross-polinate: I'll post finished sculptures on my illustration account and use that post to point to my sculpture account, I'll include character design drawings on my sculpture account to show the design process and how illustration and sculpture overlap, and I'll make mention of my kids and some of the projects we do together in both illustration and sculpture accounts (for example, they have been doing Inktober 52 with me, so include their ink drawings as subsequent slides on my posts, and that really connects for some of my followers).

      Basically, I don't think there's really a right or wrong answer. It's up to you to decide what you want your Instagram to be, and then, through trial and error over years, dial it in to be as effective as possible to showcase your artwork, yourself, and your creative journey.

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: Our SVS Virtual Studio 🎄DECEMBER 2020🎄

      For Christmas this year, I wanted to thank my teammates at work for sticking through 2020 with me by surprising them with ornaments featuring their pets. Jason doesn’t have a pet, so he got Dobby from Harry Potter.

      Cat Final 1.jpg
      Bulldog Final.jpg
      Dobby Final.jpg
      Husky Final.jpg
      All Finished.jpg

      posted in Artwork
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    • RE: I think my lack of style is a problem.

      @Griffin You definitely have a style! Do you know what market you are aiming for? My initial feeling is that your style would look great in editiorial pieces and to accompany online articles, or as chapter heading illustrations for middle grade and young adult books.

      posted in Questions & Comments
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    • RE: First 3 videos live on Youtube!

      @NessIllustration Great stuff!

      posted in General Discussion
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    • RE: Slowvember 2020 WIP

      @Jeremy-Ross Thanks!

      posted in Slowvember
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