The ‘Footballheroes See Red’ book just got a nice mention on THE illustration and cartoon blog: DRAWN! Very nice! Well deserved and well done Jerzovskaja and Beach!
http://drawn.ca/2008/06/16/football-heroes-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
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
Incredible but true: My shipment of Footballheroes books was inexplicably delayed and only arrived at my doorstep just now…today. Therefore I have just had my first opportunity to leaf through the luxurious reading and viewing experience that is ‘Footballheroes See Red’
I think it came out incredibly well. Everybody’s hard work really paid off and the Herculean effort of Heartglow books has to be commended at the highest level.
Well done to one and all! What a pleasure and honor it is to be a part of this wonderful project.
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.
