Doug McGuire : Illustration

Being a “jack of all trades” (or styles in this case) is great and all, but it can make things rather difficult. If you try to hold on to this Renaissance man-type persona and someone asks “What do you do?”…what do you say? If you start rattling off a list of talents and abilities, you might impress people but would they hire you? There’s that whole “…master of none” issue, not to mention the frustration of doing one type of task one day (say, illustration) and something else the next (web development, design, animation, etc.).

So, what I am exploring right now is illo style. I have emulated many styles in the past, which does come in handy, but one can lose (or never actually find) their own this way. In that vein, I have taken the sketch I posted on 3/01/08 and put a finish on it. As Chuck pointed out, I did this without a story to start from which seemed to slow me down a bit, but it was good to think through it. Here’s the “finished” piece.

I also found a great site called Illustration Friday that I am going to take a swing at. It helps with the “what do I draw” dilemma when your brain goes numb.

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