For Workshop

1- I start doing some research then start getting an idea what i’m working with, then i do a few sketches, with the directions that are asked for in e-mail.

2- Send to employer best sketches to see what direction their leaning towards .
once directions come back time do do some clean up on one of the sketches.

3- from here then i sand it in Note: i do not scan my sketches in very high quality (75dpi) because in the end i will not be incorporating the sketch in to the final.

4- once scanned i open up photoshop and do some colour testing, i do not do this in illustrator because takes to long. in photoshop i can do this in 5 or 10 mins because im just throwing a few colours together just to figure out the colour scheme. When i’m happy with a colour i pit a small sample on the left corner because i can sample that colour once i’m in illustrator.

5- Now i open up illustrator and i place the image i did in photoshop in it just to sample the colours. When i sample that i always put that sample in the swatch library so when i need them its in their. once i’m done i trash the photoshop image and import the original black and white sketch.

6- Once its imported i double click the layer and dim it to 50%. i do this because it makes it easier to see when i’m drawing over it with the pen tool.

7- now i make a new layer and i start drawing over it, i usually just draw the whole thing out b4 adding and fills or anything. i find it faster after when i’m filling it in with the fill colour.

9- I start adding in the fill.(remember its quick for me to see what colour is what because of I did my colour scheme in photoshop).

10- once i fill it all in i send it off to the employer to se if its ok for them. Once i get the ok from them its back to work.

11. i start shaping the line work i want and fix a few things here and their like corners (i generally don’t like having corners in my work).

12- I finally get the image of how the boot looks like. So now i can Finnish off the boots. ( usually i get the product right away but this time it wasn’t the case)

13- i work on the boot and come up with 2 colours i’m happy with, then put it on him.

14- from here i put in their logo and try to figure out how i’m going to layout the tag line for this boot.

15- once thats done ad some effects then send the two versions of it to see what makes the cut

16- Now you enjoy the e-mail at 3:30am with the words ” It looks great. good job” now i can go sleep.