At the end of last year I made this illustration for Maine Magazine’s Most Romantic Restaurant’s article. It’s in Jan/Feb issue of the magazine around New England. I had a lot of fun with this job and it also frustrated me a great deal, I still feel very new to illustrating things that are brought to me. I usually get to draw whatever I want but have a specific theme or thing to go off from. At first the illustration was much larger but I ended up cropping it down a bit to not view the people in it and only their hand gestures.
My first instinct was to also make the male figure a “ghost” like person, making his arm, hand and flower somewhat transparent. At this point I realized I was moving a little to far away from the subject for the magazine and making the content a little to dark since this was coming out for valentines day.
You can view the article here.
I also liked playing around with the idea of a tattoo on both people connecting them besides them just having dinner with each other. I also used myself as reference, something I should do way more of. I’m still learning how to color things in Photoshop correctly, something I feel like I will never master but the last few drawings project’s I’ve had I’ve been getting a bit better, with this one I moved the girls colors off a little, at first it was to make her seem more nervous because the man’s colors were dead on, in the end I don’t think the nervousness shows but I liked the technique anyway. It might work better on her dress then her actual skin.
