Poster Illustration Walk-through using traditional media and Photoshop.

This video will show you how I make illustrations for large scale digital prints. Here we used real graphite on paper and photoshop, a lightbox and and A4 scanner. CHAPTERS 00:00 Look at my pretty picture! Look at my freckled head! 01:10 Workflow overview 02:11 Developing an Idea 1 - Observation 03:31 Developing an idea 2 - Genre Research 06:25 Developing and idea 3 - Field Research 08:00 Iteration and sketching 08:34 ’Pencils’ or working sketches - Drawing in layers on grid paper 11:08 How I use a light-box 11:54 Line-work with graphite 13:30 Scale. Why I always keep it consistent 16:24 The dangers of “asset thinking“ 22:18 Colour Blocking - solving colour problems early 24:51 More Pencils - creating the detail line-work 25:51 Assembling the line-work in Photoshop 27:15 Limitations - why you should create them for yourself 29:15 Digital Colour - A tour of the Photoshop stack 44:44 Output Resolution settings 45:22 Pat’s Favourite Bits Pat Grant is an author of two graphic novels, an Illustrator and a