» fussballhelden http://blog.marsdencartoons.com Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:20:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Euro Legends – Footballheroes now on UEFA.com website http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/06/07/euro-legends-footballheroes-now-on-uefacom-website/ http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/06/07/euro-legends-footballheroes-now-on-uefacom-website/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:39:08 +0000 Ian http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/?p=258 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

Euro Legends – Footballheroes now on UEFA.com website ]]> http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/06/07/euro-legends-footballheroes-now-on-uefacom-website/feed/ 3 “Footballheroes See Red!” My Books arrived! http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/06/04/footballheroes-see-red-my-books-arrived/ http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/06/04/footballheroes-see-red-my-books-arrived/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:03:40 +0000 Ian http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/?p=257 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.

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“Footballheroes See Red!” My Books arrived! ]]> http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/06/04/footballheroes-see-red-my-books-arrived/feed/ 0 Footballheroes. Video. Ian Marsden shows how he illustrated Team Ireland for ‘Footballheroes See Red’ http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/04/30/footballheroes-video-ian-marsden-shows-how-he-illustrated-team-ireland-for-footballheroes-see-red/ http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/04/30/footballheroes-video-ian-marsden-shows-how-he-illustrated-team-ireland-for-footballheroes-see-red/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:40:33 +0000 Ian http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/04/30/footballheroes-video-ian-marsden-shows-how-he-illustrated-team-ireland-for-footballheroes-see-red/ 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.

:)

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Zuerst erfolgt eine Tusche-Skizze die eingescannt wird. Die schwarzen Linien werden in Adobe Illustrator gezeichnet und zum Schluss wurden die Farben auch in Adobe Illustrator koloriert. Die Illustrationen sind 100% Vektor basiert.

Video in Deutscher Sprache.

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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:

Footballheroes See Red – 10 more days! ]]> http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/04/09/footballheroes-see-red-10-more-days/feed/ 0 Football Heroes See Red: Team Ireland 2008 by Ian D. Marsden http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/02/10/football-heroes-see-red-team-ireland-2008-by-ian-d-marsden/ http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/02/10/football-heroes-see-red-team-ireland-2008-by-ian-d-marsden/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:08:37 +0000 Ian http://blog.marsdencartoons.com/2008/02/10/football-heroes-see-red-team-ireland-2008-by-ian-d-marsden/ Until the images have been officially released I can not show you any of the new illustrations on my blog yet, but here is a little teaser of Team Ireland 2008.

Sneak preview of Marsden Ireland 2008 Team illustrations for Footballheroes 2008 ‘Football Heroes See Red’

More news on the upcoming Football Heroes 2008 Book on the official Footballheroes blog:

http://blog.footballheroes.org/

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For those of you who enjoyed the first Football Heroes book and collectable stickers there is good news. A new football heroes book ‘Football Heroes See Red’ will celebrate it’s book launch date April 1st 2008.

Read news and updates from the creators and illustrators of Rootball Heroes 2008 on the official blog here:

http://blog.footballheroes.org/

Link to Football Heroes Blog

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