Art and Learning Contest Winners
Here are the winners of the DaniDraws.com Art and Learning Contest. Congratulations artists!
First Place: Jonathan Baker
website: www.jonathanbakerart.com
Jonathan’s tutorial walks through some of his traditional painting techniques as he creates a pulp/noir style comic book cover.
I loved Jonathan’s tutorial because he used so many different techniques. I’m a big fan of mixed media and spontaneity, which Jonathan embraces in the making of this painting.
Jonathan has created a detailed PDF outlining his process, but as a bonus, he was also able to put together a video slideshow. Kudos for the extra effort!
Second Place: Emily Gonsalves
website: http://emilygonsalves.com/
blog: http://artblog.emilygonsalves.com/
webcomic: http://greencorner.emilygonsalves.com/
Emily’s entry explains how to create a comic in Adobe Illustrator. I’ve covered this topic before myself (here, here, and here), but I think Emily gives a lot of added insight. I’m not a comic artist - I don’t work in that style regularly and I don’t use Illustrator that often - so it’s great to have someone like Emily to showcase here. Even if you’ve combed through my former tutorials, you should be able to learn something new from her. I certainly did!
Emily’s tutorial is also in the form of a PDF, and a beautiful PDF it is. It is well laid out, easy to read, and filled with extra tips, illustrations, and explanations besides the main article.
Bonus: Dani Duck
Unfortunately, this submission just missed winning a prize, but it was a great submission nonetheless, and I wanted to share it.
Dani (no relation :)) has written a tutorial that outlines her traditional painting process. She uses a variety of media and materials including acrylics, matte medium, and colored pencil. The entire process is covered, from pencil sketch to finish, creating a toned value painting first and adding thin layers of color on top.
Have an Art Tip?
Well, the contest is over, but if any of you have your own tutorials, tips, podcasts, videos, etc. to share, continue to send them my way! I’d be happy to link/showcase my favorites here on the site (or in my brand new Twitter feed). As always, Happy Drawing!
All tutorials and images in this post are copyrighted to their respected authors. Do not copy, reproduce, or distribute the content without the author’s permission. For specific questions or comments regarding one of these tutorials, please contact its author through their indicated site links.
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July 31st, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Dani, I cannot thank you enough for the opportunity. I really enjoyed your blog over the last year, and have scoured the archives for tips. I could rattle on, but I will leave it at thank you, so so much!
August 1st, 2008 at 4:07 am
Dani, Thank you so much for this contest. When I started the contest I thought there was no way I could get anything submitted in that short amount of time. The contest really pushed me to work hard in a short amount of time. It really an encouragement for me to have my work on your site. If anyone wants to email me, send your emails to daniduckart@gmail.com (Yay for having an email address for every occasion!) . I don’t have a website up yet, but my goal is to get one up soon!
August 1st, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for your kind words and the promotion of my tutorial, Dani. I’m glad you enjoyed it, and I hope others will find it useful too
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:29 am
Link to emily’s PDF won’t work. I wanted to compare it to my method of doing a comic book in AI since it looks familiar.
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:54 am
Aaron, the link is fixed. Thanks for letting me know.