The New York based illustrator Sam Wolfe Connelly, and his work has only gotten better and better. We really like the sepia tone he’s been using in many of his pieces lately, it gives off a really great old, haunted house vibe. Browsing around Sam’s Tumblr we came across this piece of advice which we thought could be helpful for illustrators out there:
“I feel like I am Forcing graphite to be something that it isn’t with my mark making, how do you make such beautiful smooth textures while keeping detail to create images that have such a mysterious quality? I tend not to use graphite as it might traditionally be used, since most the values in my drawings are erased away rather than shaded in. Using a kneaded eraser on a graphite-heavy surface softens the edges and gradations, opposed to harsher lines when you’re putting pencil straight onto an image. I tend to find myself doing a lot of glazing when it comes to adding shadows, and using tissues a lot of the time, so I get a steady value across large areas. I really hate taking a thin pencil to stark, white paper, because it never seems to turn out as soft as what I can create with an eraser. The best advice I can give is map out all the large shapes with your erasing and then slowly work your way into the smaller details with the pencil.” ( 5elected from www.thefoxisblack.com ) For more information we invite you to follow the link bellow the nice pictures.
www.samwolfeconnelly.tumblr.com