Ryan Maddox Art

My comic: “The Farm”

ryanmaddoxart — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:28:05 +0000

I made a comic! Click each image in order left to right, as if you’re reading a book.

Umbreller

ryanmaddoxart — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:49:39 +0000

This is an image from a dream I had, which has stuck with me for some reason. Made in Adobe Photoshop.

"Umbreller" when it was still a work in progress.

My first illustration job!

ryanmaddoxart — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:01:09 +0000

So I recently finished my first professional illustration job, and I thought I’d share some of my experiences here, along with some different versions of one of the illustrations.

I was asked to make five colour illustrations for the interior of a book, as well as one colour illustration for the front cover. You can read more about the book on the author’s blog here: http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/

I decided to use Adobe Flash, to get a particular clean-yet-hand-drawn look. However, I quickly learned that Flash has a SUPER FUN limitation one has to deal with when illustrating for print.

There’s no effective vector export option unless you have Illustrator too, in which case you must export to Adobe Illustrator (which I don’t own) and then export from there to a more compatible vector file. So I decided to create high resolution PNG files instead. But hey, surprise surprise – Flash wanted to crush that dream too! In the end I had to export the images in four or more sections, and then stitch them together in Adobe Photoshop. This is the sort of run-around that Adobe seems to be extremely fond of. Unfortunately, they do make the best programs out there.

Here is the first sketch I did for the cover design…

…and here is the second. This one was more or less the design we stuck with, although as you will see, a few elements were switcheroo’d later.

Here is the final cover design, including the title and other elements which weren’t made by me. I think it worked out rather well.

My arty sitey.

ryanmaddoxart — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:11:09 +0000

Hello there,

It appears you’ve stumbled upon the greatest art gallery type websitey thing on the internet. Well done, you are one step closer to true happiness. I’ll be posting occasionally with updates on my path towards artistic world domination, along with all the scribbles and paint drippings I leave along the way.

So if you like what you see, feel free to leave a comment! I’m also accepting commissions.

Beneath is an image I made in Adobe Photoshop as part of Operation Holiday Flood.