Monday, March 7, 2011

When Life Gives You Lemons


This was a very fun piece to do. I remember I was having lunch with my friend and we got lemon water and she shoved her lemon down with her straw and said that she was drowning it. I was instantly inspired to make some mafia lemons getting rid of a lose end. I started out sketching this in a rather cartoony manor, and then eventually scanned it into Photoshop and decided to take a more realistic approach. I used tons of reference for this piece, normally I would just have a lemon in my hand, trying to really capture that texture of pulp. Also I like to hide little details, like the "help!" written from the inside of the glass, which only a few have picked up on. This way of making food come to life was really fun, and I hope to illustrate more scenes like this in the future.

2 comments:

  1. Nice piece, Josh. You don't want to mess with those "mafia lemons"...you may find yourself in the drink.

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  2. Hey Josh, cool piece! If you read this after 1:20pm today it'll be up on my blog theastonishingpost.tumblr.com w/ a link back to you :)

    And btw, we'll have to reschedule since we missed each other last week. Karla is excited for us to meet.

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