Archive for the ‘digital illustration’ Category

Euro Legends - Footballheroes now on UEFA.com website

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

1964 Spain Espana team by Ian Marsden from Footballheroes see Red!All of the FootballHeroes portraits are now on the UEFA website.

Every player who is featured in the book has his portrait featured on his UEFA web profile also.
The full teams are online also.

Team 1964 Spain Espana

Visit the classic Euro Legends here:

http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/history/winners/index.html

Link >

1988 Holland Nederlande team by Ian Marsden from Footballheroes see Red!

Click on 1964 and 1988 to see ‘my’ Italian and Dutch teams.

(the site is expecting over 1 Billion hits, which is pretty darn cool)

:)

Team 1988 Holland Nederlande

Footballheroes. Video. Ian Marsden shows how he illustrated Team Ireland for ‘Footballheroes See Red’

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Here is a short YouTube video in which I very briefly show how I created the Irish Players for the new ‘Footballheroes See Red’ book using my drawing of Paul Mc Shane as an example.

I click through some of the layers and talk very briefly about some of the software used.

In the case of the Republic of Ireland team, I started with rough pencil sketches which I then scanned and imported into Adobe Illustrator CS3.

I created all my black line work in Illustrator using the pressure sensitivity from the Wacom tablet to give me the stroke widths and the right look and feel for my lines.

The Footballheroes books are printed in such high quality and on such top-notch paper that I wanted everything to look as sharp as possible.

Finally I imported the lines into Corel Painter IX.5 and colored the players using digital watercolor.

Final artwork was delivered as 300 ppi TIFF files.

The reason Paul Mc Shane is wearing a suit and a band-aid is because I wanted all of the team members to look like characters from a classic gangster movie. Why? I don’t know.

:)

Footballheroes See Red - 10 more days!

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The Footballheroes See Red books have been printed and are on their way to bookstores all over Europe.

There will be an exhibition and launch party in Zürich, the date and details yet to be announced but in all likelyhood I will be present.

In the meantime lots of new information and fantastic artwork can be seen at:

FOOTBALLHEROES BLOG

Here is a first glimpse at some of the players from the three teams I illustrated:

Caricature Portrait from Photograph by cartoonist Ian Marsden

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

 Limousine Caricarure Portrait from Photograph by Ian Marsden

Caricature cartoon Portrait from Photograph by Ian Marsden.

Caricature portraits can be custom created from photographs.
Please contact Ian Marsden to find out more. info@marsdencartoons.com

Karikatur ab Foto - gezeichnet von Ian Marsden

Karikatur ab Foto - gezeichnet von Ian Marsden. Karikaturen von ihren Freunden, Bekannten, Familie, Arbeitskollegen etc. ab Foto.
Als digitale Datei geliefert die Sie ausdrucken können oder als Original-Zeichnung in Tusche s/w oder Aquarell koloriert.