What one should be doing, if they want to have any hope of being successful at stock illustration/photography, is adapting to what the market wants...and/or adapting to what the season dictates...like it's summer - so the sun or 4th of july or picnics or things of that nature might do well...
Today I was able to throw this up - but just like all the things we've done this month for stock illustration, it's been very cheap and very easy...(and cheap and easy doesn't usually sell well)...but I wanted to put something up...to try and help the next month start on higher footing...
This was the rough I doodled as I was on the phone this morning:
And - because it's for stock illustration - you have to do it all in Illustrator (vector) to have a chance at it selling. I think it could have turned out cuter...or whatever - I'm thinking of redoing it where the sun is lying out on the beach...but we'll see if I have any time...
I also would have liked to have put some gradient shading behind the sun - but I couldn't get the colors right in Illustrator...so I had to go without it...
This weekend I'm going to be working on coloring the Parade drawing I did a couple of weeks ago...hopefully I'll be able to finish it by Sunday night...
4 comments:
I very much enjoy your art style. And reading the top of your blog was quite fun. Mr. Sun is great - can't believe you can do that so quickly. I look forward to the parade illustration. Great work!
wow cool work.......I know how you feel about producing stock art....it can be a chore! But fun stuff...I just became a follower so now I can check in from time to time!
Hmm...I like it the way it is!
Nice work ! Real clean design!
And I thought it was going to be an illo of Spongebob from the thumbnail! Haha.
Post a Comment