Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance

I've been playing around with sketching some vintage phones for this project. I really want to give this a fun, romantic, flirty feel with some hand lettering to make it feel that much more personal. My hubby and I are both a little techy, but in all of our years together, we've talked on the phone only a handful of times. Which makes drawing a vintage phone for a valentine that much more ironic.

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 1 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 2 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 3 - student project

A belly bug whipped through our home and I fell behind! Playing catch up now and would love any feedback on these initial mockups. #1 and #3 are my fav's so far.

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 4 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 5 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 6 - student project

hopefully it's just the way my monitor is calibrated, but this upload shifted the saturation of my colors quite a bit. I chose more of a salmon color for the reddish tone, but in this upload, it's appearing much more vibrant. Anyone else run into this?

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 7 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 8 - student project

Inking is done and I'm eager to work it into the illustration. One note... I didn't have a calligraphy pen with me in my home office, so I improvised with some micron pens and this incredibly fun and unique glass pen. Unlike a calligraphy pen, I can't change the nib, so my stroke options are limited in that sense. BUT, this thing holds a ridiculously large amount of ink and makes some interesting marks when it starts running dry.

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 9 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 10 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 11 - student project

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TOOLS OF THE TRADE

I just wrapped up learning some street art using a spray paint technique, timed out to a song during a Christmas show. I initially thought about sketching the tools of the trade for being athe mom of a 2 year old boy, but found the tools from my street art project to be more visually interesting.

• Spray Paint

•Palette Knife (subtractive method)

• newspaper (adding texture, subtractive)

• tape

• ear buds (so I could hear my cues)

I dove in with sketches and jumped into working digitally. Will begin playing with some ink today but would love any feedback in the meantime. Having a lot of fun with this so far. It's been good to work on a project that forces me to not overthink what I'm doing.

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 12 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 13 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 14 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 15 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 16 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 17 - student project

So the texture is still in progress. I'd like to add some highlighting on the spray paint can to give it a little more dimension, and I really want to add in a spray sort of texture coming from the can, perhaps even spraying to the right over the newspaper too. And I'm toying with a background color, other than white.

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 18 - student project

Inky Valentine: Vintage Romance - image 19 - student project

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