A collection of my illustrations
Hello and welcome to this tutorial on how to increase the area of a texture in Photoshop. If you’re a graphic designer or digital artist, you know that a quality texture is essential for creating high-quality designs. In this tutorial,…
Hello and welcome to this tutorial! In this tutorial, we will be exploring how to use Adobe Photoshop to create seamless repeating textures. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced practitioner, this demo will provide you with the knowledge…
To continue the Creepy Crawly collection, here is the addition of a millipede with glow-in-the-dark acrylic paint. The 3×3 inch monoprint is on a 6×6 inch piece of watercolor paper.
Use your own drawings to make sticker mockups Create digital sticker mockups of your own drawings in a few simple steps. (Download working files) ArtBasics.online is a school I am starting for the aspiring artist to develop foundational skills. Stop…
Brush Stroke Shape from BYU-Idaho Art Dept on Vimeo.
Imposto action from BYU-Idaho Art Dept on Vimeo.
I have had a great time working on this project. The image that I am showing here is for the cover of the concert program but I am also creating images for projection in a massive way as background for…
It has been a few years and now everything is OK so I can share this project. Without the gory details I found myself in need of a total colectomy. It isn’t a surgery that I looked forward to but…
This was the perfect word for me tonight. I have been trying to get a creative project going but keep getting interrupted by the challenges that life dishes out. Now every time I start I want to see the success…
Perennial by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital Submitted to illustrationfriday.com
Repeating pattern from Scott Franson on Vimeo. This Tutorial shows how to create a basic repeating pattern. Choose a pattern size and create a new document. (The resolution matters. My default is 3×3 inches at 300 pixels per inch) Draw…
Harmony in a Color Pallet from Scott Franson on Vimeo. This Tutorial shows one way to use Adobe Photoshop to create color harmony. Mixing a bit of one color into the other colors in your pallet will give the colors…
There are some things that only a kid can come up with. One of my favorites is from my son. “Shhh please be quiet my foots asleep.”Submitted to www.illustrationfriday.com
Overlapping texture with scale | Changing the scale of the texture assigned to a brush creates visual color mixing. 1. Add a texture to the brush. Notice that the texture assigned to the brush can be scaled. 2. This image…
Adding texture to a brush | This process simulates how a textures surface such as canvas or gesso influence the texture. Applying a texture to the brush 1. add a texture [diModule | Creating texture] 2. open the brushes pallet|…
Creating texture | One way to add a human touch to illustrations created in Adobe Photoshop is to create your own textures. diModule Contents page I create my textures on 8.5 x 11 inch hardboards. While it is not necessary…
An exploration of the simple beauty of colored thread on wood spools | This image was started for the BYU-Idaho Faculty Art show in the Fall of 2010. A work in progress I did exhibit a version of this, but…
Coming up with an idea is always a challenge and this was no exception. I knew that I wanted to use the technique of painting a series of acrylic paintings in black, scanning them with backlight, and then coloring them…
Painting No.012711 by Scott E Franson | size: 5×7 | media: digital In my quest to discover new options and possibilities in digital art creation, I am always exploring the question of, “What if?” The exploration today has led me…
I made some textures using block printing ink and a roller. I prepared the ink as I would for block printing and just rolled it onto paper instead of the block and then scanned the paper. I am excited to…
There is always a box of glass bottles left as an inheritance for posterity. They are kind of cool and seem to have some value and so the very dusty bottles are passed on from one attic to the next…and…
A new unBook by Scott E Franson that will never be at a store near you. For illustrationfriday.com
I have been working on this for the last several hours looking forward to posting to illustrationfriday.com for the word “double”. Apparently last week went faster than expected and so here is a new but late unbook. Click the image…
This image was originally produced for a print exchange in the late 90s. National Geographic I can remember as a kid how fascinated I was with the gold rings and the long necks of the women from a tribe in…
Breakfast I couldn’t help it. This is a recycled image but it fit the word so well. Thanks as always to illustrationfriday.com.
This painting was done as an experiment in a workshop that I went to last week. As everyone should know three humps are for crossing longer deserts. This camel should be spelled cammmel. The workshop was with Kevin Hawkes at…
The birth of paisley as a multi-cellular animal. I have included a magnified image so that you can see the internal organelles and numerous gelatinous membranes. Thank you as always to www.illustrationfriday.com for the prompt.
A summer trail through a winter world is made possible by an Un-brella. This is a spread from my picture book Un-brella. It seemed like a perfect choice for this weeks illustrationfriday.com word, “trail.” Can you see the trail the…
The Friends of the Rigby Library | Last night I had the honor to be a guest of The Friends of the Rigby Library in Rigby, Idaho. I gave a presentation to children and their parents about Un-Brella. I shared…
When I first looked at the word for the week the very first thing that I noticed was that it could be flipped over and still be read correctly. I wish that I had a great story to go with…
The Marvelous Mr. Mud is the story of dirt, water and children. I love a good mud-day and so does Mr, Mud. He plays along with the kids in this UnBook by Scott E Franson that will never be published…
This image is a preliminary experiment for the A-line series I did for a faculty art show last fall. I have always liked it and felt that it was a good match for this weeks Illustration Friday. In photoshop, I…
Warning from the Center of Disease Control. Forget about the Swine Flue, several swine in Iowa have contracted People Pox. The disease is highly contagious and can be fatal. Symptoms include breaking out in red spots and giving off body…
New yarn hair and a close up.
Todays experiment is an old fashioned rag doll. I have been working on the felt texture so that it feels like it is made up of a variety of close colors instead of exactly the same color. The yarn hair…
School productions are always fun. Here is a kindergarten production of Duck Pond: The Ballet. That’s my girl! The one in the middle! The one missing her bottom two teeth! I have been working on creating digital felt textures and…
Tutorial: Digital Cut Paper from Scott E Franson on Vimeo. This is a basic tutorial to create a cut paper effect using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. This is a basic tutorial to create a cut paper effect using Adobe Photoshop…
It doesn’t quite look like oil lift out, but I think it is interesting.
This is the beginning of a new Digital Illustration class. I hope to see great work and progress this semester. Please feel free to make comments on the students work over the semester. They want to be better illustrators at…
I am experimenting with creating some video tutorials. Please let me know what you think.
I sure hope that her arms don’t get tired of holding on to the hat.
The soundtrack of my youth began everyday after school. I would get home and watch Gilligan’s Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie. It was a simple and good life back in the olden days. We only…
Why does Froggy like it foggy in his little bog? An UnBook by Scott E. Franson.
This is a spread from a book I am working on called Color Buzz. Delicious color mixing: a tragedy. There just aren’t enough picture books about tragedy. It is mosquito season in Idaho. I saw my first one last night…
MISSING: Baby girl wearing a diaper and a t-shirt with a colander on her head. You heard me correctly, a colander on her head. Based on a true story that has nothing to do with my sister:) After a frantic…
Another Bug
A pair of UniWings (click to enlarge)
