Fairwell Henry Hyde
This is a new illustration that I did for this week's issue of The Weekly Standard. I was originally going to paint John Bolton, and had started to block in his face early Thursday. The day was nearly finished when I got the call that Henry Hyde had passed away and they needed an illustration of him instead. Well, let's just say I was busy enough and couldn't work on the Henry Hyde piece that night, so I had to start Friday morning, and have it finished by late Friday afternoon. This is by far the the quickest turn around as of yet, for a painting anyways. I started at 7:00 a.m. and finished around 7:00 p.m. I first painted the entire piece in black and white and then layered color into it. There are some bits about it that I'm not 100% happy with, but for the crunch I was under, I'm pleased with the end result. I now know how to do it better and faster next time around!
posted by SEILER at 3:03 PM
12 Comments:
Let's hear it for the Crunchmeister! Unbelieveable - and the results are true pro work. Man if you can work like this under pressure.. well then what's the limit? Always raising the bar my friend...
You did a great piece even if you were under pressure.. wow!!
Très bien, vraiement réussi!!
Bravo
Very cool Jason - especially for such a tight turnaround! The frame breakaway is great and I really like how you've treated his glasses.
The life of an illustrator you gotta love it!!
Great work, Jason, and all the more impressive now that we know the situation you were in! How did you color the black/white image? Did you use a "Color" blending layer? Tech talk...
Thank you all sooooo much. It was a crazy deadline, but feels good to have pulled it off in the way that I did. As far as how I did this?
Well, I am teaching some of this in my shoolism course, so I don't want to give too much away, but I basically used color, multiply and a few others in layers to add the color. The technique relys on how finished the final black and white is, that is 80% of the work right there, the color takes anywhere from a half an hour to an hour to finish. Of course if I had more time, I could have spent at least a couple hours coloring and could have made it a bit tighter.
Thanks again, your words are encouraging, I appreciate the feedback!
Yer secret's safe with me! I'm working on a few pieces right now that I'd like to get done pronto, so Thanks for the hints!
Just amazing!
Yeah, great work Jason!! There's a quote I heard from somewhere that I really believe is true: "A professional can do great work even when he doesn't feel like it."
That describes this piece, I think.
phenomenal caricatures! wow. very inspiring.
It's a really nice piece and far better than Hyde deserves.
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