» European 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. 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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