Learning how to draw on the iPad has been difficult process for me. The image of the Easter Bunny above is just one example of an image I drew in attempts to better myself at drawing with my finger on a glass screen of an iPad using Brushes. It takes some time, but I am starting to get the hang of it and it will not replace paper to say the least. If anything I enjoying doing drawing & painting this way because I don’t need to carry an arsenal of paper, pencils, paints & brushes with me. Just a thin lightweight iPad.
Below is a video of how the drawing / painting came together to give you an idea through the process from sketch, color, value, mistakes, & corrections made through completion. It took a little more than an hour to go from idea in head to finished executed image.
John Hersey is an amazing Illustrator I have admired from afar in magazines, books, lynda.com & online. That is until today when John stopped by lynda.com in Carpinteria, California to pay us a visit out of the blue. John has been working with lynda.com as a freelance illustrator by creating artwork for our courses much to our delight for the last year or so (I can’t recall how long). Recently he was one of the featured artist in our very limited edition / hand made Art of lynda.com book in which he so kindly signed for me today. Below are a few photos of his surprise visit. If you don’t know the work of John Hersey, I strongly think you will be delighted by the whimsy and playful nature of his illustration work. Take a look at hersey.com
Illustrator John Hersey signs my Art of Lynda.com book
In this photo: Bruce Heavin, John Hersey, & Lynda Weinman
In 1996-1997, ImageReady 1.0 was being developed by Adobe. I worked with Doug Olson to come up with a splash screen for the application to depict give personality to the product. I used CoSa After Effects to make the animation before it was Adobe After Effects. In the end the splash screen was turned into a secret splash screen and the product identity took on the image of a cyclist instead. However even more secret than the secret splash screen was the animated secret splash screen on a continuous loop I made to be the first ever Adobe animated splash page. I don’t know if anyone outside of Doug Olsen at Adobe has ever seen this. I found it in an old hard drive while doing some cleaning. I also did a series of icons & other things that are still being used in Adobe products today when working with web graphics. Thought I’d dust off this little animation off and put a light upon what you I was up to then.
Here is the artwork Adobe choose to use in the end:
During a local AIGA event at the Brooks Institute in Ventura, California, I tell the story behind the logo mark I made for lynda.com. First published February 16th, 2010 & recorded 2009.
Lynda.com left the book publishing business years ago, however that didn’t stop us from creating yet another book in a grand fashion. Why make a book if it isn’t jaw dropping amazing? So that said, we worked with Stefan Bucher to push the printer & binders to the point of absolute breaking. Needless to say, we were quite happy with the book he worked with us to make. We made a small batch of 500 hand made books to give to our staff, associates, & current authors over the holidays. Artist featured are: Richard Downs, Maria Rendon, Don Barnett, Bruce Heavin & John Derry.
Unfortunately these books are not for sale as this was intended to be a one time limited edition run. We are contemplating a 2nd printing if strong interest arises.
Stefan Bucher posted an article on his site today about his monsters he created & installed at lynda.com HQ a few months back. I initally asked him to make a few little monsters for me & somehow I ended up buying the entire bakers dozen he made to choose from. How did he know my weakness? Visit Stefan’s article on those monsters here.
Photo of Stefan Bucher at lynda.com HQ with his monsters
Bruce Heavin 