Friday, May 29, 2009

IF: Adapt - The sun...

It's been a pretty quiet month on shutterstock for Tracey and I. There just hasn't been any time to put anything new up - and it's reflected in our sales...

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:

Shirley said...

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!

John said...

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!

Gordon Hammond said...

Hmm...I like it the way it is!

Nice work ! Real clean design!

Burt said...

And I thought it was going to be an illo of Spongebob from the thumbnail! Haha.

 
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