Bomber illos
Jun 9th, 2009 by J. O'Brien
I recently did a series of illustrations for Northeastern University for an alumni magazine feature story about bomb sensing technology. For the main piece, a portrait of a bomber, I wanted the bomber to be anonymous so I cropped the image below his eyes. But when I finished it, I thought it would be fun to make it into an identifiable personality. I began by adding a menacing eye and eyebrow, a beard, some more hair. I also made some adjustments to the hands and some other tweaks here and there, spent another couple of days on it.
Below are the initial thumbnail sketches, sketches for the client, revised sketches, and the two other illustrations for the story.
Love that you share the process…thank you! The sketches are great! and I love the finals. The textures are wonderful:)