so here’s what i put together today. bear racing! my computer was being infinitely slow, so it took much longer than it should have.
and now it is 5 o’clock on a friday! i’m off to make a drink.
bear racing.
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Tag Archives: illustration
sideshow seal.
and here we have another circus themed illustration that i started yesterday.
riding seals is fun!
circus buffalo.
i’ve been working on 4 separate paintings today. most circus themed. this cowboy buffalo was the first to be finished.
so… tah-dah!
voodoo.
the best page.
this is the story in ‘a sad day for kites’ that always makes people laugh and then be upset about the fact that they laughed at a story like this.
cats.
here is an illustration of a cat i’ve drawn before. but now with a background. i’m working on improving my background skills.
a dracula.
yesterday i made a small illustration of a dracula. i couldn’t figure out what he should say. i asked fred and he insisted that he should say ‘va va voom’. i’m not sure why.
i also went on a font binge and now have a whole new army of fonts. i actually had to stop myself from getting more. i wasted about an hour just looking at pretty little fonts.
mechanical bird.
here is a little painting i did yesterday that i thought would be simple and quick. but for some reason my brain malfunctioned and it took me all day. i hate when that happens.
the process.
i received a suggestion to do a blog post about my illustration process. i thought that was a great idea! but i will warn you this will be a long post.
so! my style has changed a lot since moving to amsterdam. mostly because i had to leave behind my scanner. so i’ve been using a camera and tripod and a lot more photoshop. but it’s nice to have challenges and find ways to work around them. i think my art has grown a lot because of this.
naturally it all starts with a sketch. i keep a nice ammount of sketchbooks lying around and try to fill them up with ideas when i have down time. i don’t go into a crazy amount of detail in the first sketch. it’s usually some scribbley little guys doing something.
so i will choose a scribble and get out some nice paper and draw it up. sometimes i’ll do a little detail work with an ink pen. sometimes…
onto paint! (look how filthy my palette is!) i don’t really know how to explain this part well. i just kind of slosh it on. wiggle it around. then there it is. i’ll go in at the end with a tiny brush and add details like hairs and little noses.
(why yes my computer IS held together with electrical tape. i can’t handle owning expensive electronics. this is why i haven’t had a cellphone since 2010)
it’s nice to have a little dog at your feet while you do this. a cat would work, too. (though when psycho killer was alive he would try to drink my paint water and leave little paw prints on the work. cute!)
next is the part that is new to me. tripod, fancy camera, low iso, super focus, thank god i have great natural light.
once it’s in the computer and in photoshop i remove the background and clean things up a bit.
collage them all together in a nice composition.
add more, add flourishes, add type if i want it.
and there you have it! a sarah goodreau illustration.
time kill illustrations.
i’ve been a little terrible at posting this past week. sorry! some friends from back in new york are here and i would much rather ride bikes around with them than sit in front of my computer. and today i am working freelance from fred’s office so i won’t be posting anything crazy. so here are two little paintings i did when i was just killing time.
some party food because painting food is always fun.
and a cactus mountain town. this one is just completely done in photoshop. so i figure when i’m bored i can just add some more houses so it will always be growing. a constant work in progress if you will.
so after today i will get back into a regular blog schedule. look forward to a illustration process post and some bike crash stories.
sarahgoodreau 
