I am often asked the process by which I take a traditional line drawing, and then add colour, texture and compositional treatment to it.

This post goes through basic scanning and line preparation for a 'print-ready' illustration. It's quite basic stuff but hopefully a few of you may find it useful.

It may be that you have seen my portfolio and feel that you may require my services for an illustration project. If so: "Hurrah". Ideally, it would be best if I were provided with a brief covering exactly what it is that is needed.

Main questions covered:

• Do you have a budget and deadline in mind?
• What is the required style for the illustration(s)? (Based on examples in my portfolio)
• What is you intended output / use for the illustration?
• What are the other specifics? Colour, Size, ...

If you are unsure of what information to provide in your brief, or feel there is something you have overlooked, then this article may prove useful. Read on my little inquisitor ...

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If yer like it, give it a nice juicy high score and, who knows, it may even get printed! That would be cool! My design can be found at http://www.splittheatom.com/design/item1074/index.asp ...

But I think you may need to login / sign-up to vote – not sure. But tell all yer friends. Tell people who aren’t even your friends. Tell yer Grandma. Tell the postman. Tell everyone …

I’m planning on doing a load more designs on a kind of similar random-ish theme in the future, and I’ll be sure to shamelessly promote them in my blog posts also. Heh! It’s all good …

Well. That is the question. Or at least a question …

I get a few emails now and again asking my advice on how to get into illustration and design as a career etc., not sure why I get asked. I’m sat around in my pants hitting my ‘stumble!’ button most hours of the day, but there was one that I got t’other day asking me the following: ...

Not blogged for a while – errr … sorry about that ye’all …

Moving gaff an’ work an’ that has meant that my blog has gone a bit dusty and cob-webby in recent weeks. Sorry … months!

But I’m back once again (d for damager, power to the people etc.) wid some news ‘bout a new design resource that’s now online called ‘DFCKR – keeping track of design stuff so you don’t have to’ ...