Christmas Beard

Christmas Beard

English

Nollaig Beard
Irish

Hey Guys and Gals!

Here is a brand new Illustration for christmas!  I wanted to make a Christmas Card and test out some new brushes I bought for the first time online and I love them! Link to the brushes down below!  I wanted to do something different, something more classical with a twist on it.  So I have seen the christmas decorated beards and thought it would be cute to see a sleepy grampa and his gran kids decorating him with stuff from the tree while he sleeps.

so If you like the illustrations or christmas beards buy one or share it with friends :)

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/works/23960040-christmas-beard?asc=u

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/845601-christmas-beard?store_id=34514

anyway lets get into the breakdown!

1. Rough

I started off with rough and used default brush, and just worked out the basic shapes.

2. Line and shape

After I finished the rough I started using the new gouche brushes to make the shapes and a small bit of line art for extra detail.  I also made a couple custome  brushes for the tinsel on the tree and for the candy cane to make it look more like real tinsel.

4. Texture and Shading

Once the shapes and line were done I worked on texturing the grampa's beard, the tinsel and the tree leaves etc.  I added a little blush to the characters skin to very the skin color and finally added some shading and little highlights .  After that I added a tinsel boarder and a merry christmas text I also made an english and Irish version just for the sake of it :)

anyway I hope you all enjoyed this break down, if you like please share it around with friends and check out my other sites.

https://twitter.com/Phoenix_tweetin

http://madmanwithagraphicstablet.tumblr.com/

Other Merch sites

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/

https://www.teepublic.com/user/niallbyrne

https://www.curioos.com/madmanwithagraphicstablet

https://society6.com/madmanwithagraphicstablet

If you like the brush and want really good texture brushes for your own buy the here!  I nver usually buy brushes but I though I might give it a try and (lazyness and frustration on making my own)  I will probably buy more cause there really good and really cheap.  the ones I bought were the Gouche Brushes, hope this helps.

https://www.kylebrush.com/#brushes

Thanks so much again for checking out my work :)

They call me Daddy

Hey Guys and Gals.

Hope you all getting on well.  Eirtakon is over and I am still recovering lol It was a very long week but I was so happy to see so many of you and I selling a fair few posters.  I will be looking into being at more cons so if there are any in your area let me know.  Anyway this is one of my favorite illustrations I did for the con.  Its "Daddy 76"!! Now I have played alot of overwatch, almost religiously since it came out.  I love the characters and there personalities, the jokes and memes and the beautiful fan art I see online.  So I chose to do the Daddy 76, if you listen to soldier 76 audio clips he's a really dad or grumpy old man.  I wanted to illustrate the idea that he is the a stone cold serious character but also the best dad ever so under his Jacket I gave him a number one dad shirt and his kids all over him, including a baby gremlin D.VA and a nuaghty Junkrat toldler.  I think is cute and hilarious but anyway  here is a quick break down of how I made the illustration.

1.  Rough

 So I started off by doing alot of different roughs of the character but the one here I though turned out the best.  Some of the other angles I had didn't display the shirt big enough so I stuck with this one.  I used a default brush and just tried to may a rough guide and ad as much detail as I could for later on.

2. Line Art

After the rough I worked on the line art and added all the tiny details.  I also did the line with for the baby D.VA and kid Junkrat later on but added them in here si you can see what it looks like.  Hardest Part was making baby diva look like herself , cute and not too cartoony.

3.  Color Art

After finishing the line work I made a base shape for the three characters.  After making the shapes, I clipped layers to add all the color, each color has a different layer to keep it clean.  It really started looking great and after this i started added shading and highlights to create more volume.

4.  Shading and Highlights

Once I started adding the shading it really started to pop.  I kepts it very simply with a white highlight to the left and a pink tint to the right.  Also the shading was a dark blue color.  I wanted to make it change.  I really think it turned out great and will hopefully do more like this.  Just for fun.

Anyway thanks so much for all the love and support.  if you want to see more follow me here :

http://aaniallbyrne.blogspot.ie/

https://twitter.com/Phoenix_tweetin

http://madmanwithagraphicstablet.tumblr.com/

if you want any of my stuff as tshirts or other merch follow me here.  It really helps me out alot.  Also if you want me to do any commisions drop me a msg and I'll get back to you ;)

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne

https://www.teepublic.com/user/niallbyrne

https://www.curioos.com/madmanwithagraphicstablet

https://society6.com/madmanwithagraphicstablet

thanks so much again for all the support.  keep an eye out for more very soon, theres atleast 6 or more new illustrations comming.

Eirtakon 2016

For the first time ever, I will be part of the Artist Alley in Eirtakon this year!! and I will be selling my fnaf art as posters and 3 new illustrations that will Debut at the con :) Its on the 13th to 15th of November!  So if you like anime and or are living in Ireland, check it out! I’ll be there everyday of the con.  Also thank you so much for all the support

http://www.eirtakon.com/events-2/traders-exhibitors/artist-alley

Human Coffee

Hey Guys and Gals.  Its been a while, I have been busy with work and a personal secret project.  but I finally got some free time so a made this illustration of a mug drink a fresh cup of HUMAN! I have been drink a lot of fraps recently and I'm sure a lot of people need that morning coffee or tea.  well so do the mugs and cups lol.  if you want a copy of this for yourself follow the links below please ;)

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/645362-human-coffee

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/works/22903695-human-coffee?p=t-shirt&style=mens&body_color=baby_blue&print_location=front&asc=u

https://society6.com/madmanwithagraphicstablet

Now lets get to the break down.

1.

Here is the rough version of the image,  I went through a few different versions of the image, couple of them had the cup with a human cartoon body, which didn't make sense.  I used the default brush in photoshop and just made a rough sketch.

2.

After the rough I worked on building up all the shapes of the character with a little bit of shade here and there, mostly flat.

3.

Once all the shapes were done I started adding a little bit of texture to the cup and the milk foam on top of the mug, so he's not so clean and give it more character.  I also added the proper text and added a little bit extra texture to make it stand out.  I really wanted the word human to pop so I made it bigger and a really vibrant red, Same as the blood in the cup its holding.

4.

 After the texturing and text were finished up I worked on the a little shading so the character isn't so flat.  I started with an over all light, and used the eraser tool to remove the shad around the top of the mug and I added a little bit of pure white highlights for that little extra pop.

anyway thanks so much for checking out the break down, if you wanna see more check out my links below, I usually post there first. ;)

http://madmanwithagraphicstablet.tumblr.com/

https://twitter.com/Phoenix_tweetin

Thanks so much again, see you next time.

Skater moon

Hey guys and gal's, here is my latest illustration.  Its really a submission for Eirtakon 2016 and hopefully we can get in. Its skater moon!! Its a parody/ pop culture image of the sailor moon characters geared up for a roller derby match.  I have some friends who are on some roller derby teams and it looks really cool.  I wanted to do a few anime parodies with a cool twist on it. Sailor moon popped up in my head and I thought it would be pretty funny to see the Sailor Scouts in a roller derby, looking bad ass and tough.

also if you like this illustration and would like it for yourself the check out the links below.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/niallbyrne/works/21877622-skater-moon?p=t-shirt&style=womens&body_color=gold&print_location=front

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/515460-skater-moon

anyway lets get down to the break down.

1. Rough

For the first part I worked on Sailor Moon, Mars and Mercury, I was originally only going to do 3 of them but thought it would look more interesting with a character line up.  I used a default brush in Photoshop and kept it rough and scribbly for the most part.

2. Vector Shapes

After the characters were all done a started making vector to build up the characters on by one.  As you can see here in the picture above I kept the characters as flat a possible.

3. full character shapes

I made each for the character full and each has a bit of a variation so you can tell them apart.  I left the background and the facial details till very last to I didn't make any mistakes on the characters.

4. final version

After finishing all the characters I worked on all the characters faces and line work.  Once the Line work was all done I made a nice pop looking logo and added a simple looker room background.  Here are some close up crops of the full resolution version.  The version I do put online is only 100.  the normal resolution is 300.

Anyway thanks so much again check out the blog, also let me know what you think :)