Whenever I get homesick, I start craving Dutch food like crazy. So my food is a collection of Dutch food featuring speculaas, tiger bread, poffertjes, and split pea soup. All of these were drawn traditionally with a Pentel Brushpen. All the effects were done with the Kyle T. Webster brushes (using mostly the add grain brush and the sponge brush). The background was a pattern I quickly made with Photoshop.
Everything has a nice, clean illustrator-y feel to it which I think is successful. The lineart and bold and helps balance between the flat colors and more loose shading. Nice colorscheme throughout, too.
ReplyDeleteThese are so cute and clean! Good job! I wish some of the foods had a few brighter colors in them to make them stand out against the busy background a little bit more.
ReplyDeleteI love how your personal style emanates even in illustrations of food. I also enjoy the way you've incorporated themes and objects from dutch culture instead of just the foods, it emphasizes the representation of the culture as a whole through their traditional foods. Great color palettes, too!
ReplyDeleteThese are adorable. I'd love to see some shadows on them whether it's through more line work or a slightly darker color variation. Otherwise it's very clean and a great representation of the food from the culture. It looks very dutch!
ReplyDeleteI like how I could immediately tell this was you. You have a recognizable style. That tiger bread looks delicious. I like that you added objects next to the food that relate to Holland. I like that you are able to draw something so simply, but somehow show a lot of character in them.
ReplyDeleteThese look fantastic! They're fun, edible looking and really nicely composed! I think the brushes you used are a great addition to the nice drawings, because they give a texture to the way that you see the powdered sugar, or the crunchiness / crustiness of the bread! Each of these are really fun, too because you also did a great job thinking of using the blue line work across all of them that make them a bit friendlier, but still really readable. Great color choice in these, too. The only thing that I think you could try is to play with the shapes of the shadows a bit more, or maybe make a different density in them so that they seem more a part of the composition. It might make them feel more grounded on the tablecloth! Great job!
ReplyDeletei love the dutch food theme. great choice to use the same back ground its a really easy way to tie everything together. the color pallet you used goes really well it the simple line work. the textures really give the food depth.
ReplyDeleteThese came out really strong, Chase- blending the traditional linework with the Kyle brushes in Photoshop really played to the best of both worlds. But what really sets it ahead is the use of color- you manage to have a predominantly blue scheme whilst giving each set a different warm color to play against it, and the contrast has a very pleasant result. Plus the additional items provide more detail without taking away from the food. You did good!
ReplyDeleteThese look so good! your line work is so impressive. I love the background that you added, which really makes them read well as a set. your use of texture also worked really well in these, especially the powdered sugar/flour in the third one. I also like the little items you added to imply that it's dutch food and how that is relative to dutch culture.
ReplyDeleteChase these are so super and I love the Danish theme to pieces. You got a really nice attention to line quality and I can easily tell the differences in texture between the plates, bread, powdered sugar, and the objects in the background. The checkered patterns is very fun touch as well. Like Lindsay said, I think pushing the shadows could ground them more - probably even making them darker could help. Gold star buddy!
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