I'm going to be busy today so I thought I'd post and oldie from a book project. Its a combination of Illustrator and Photoshop using a lot of levels.

The type is set up to print in silver (Pan 877) on the left hand side. I spent a lot of time sailing when I was a kid and I love boats, (but not as much as cars.)

The process for this piece was fairly straightforward. The image was mostly done in black and white and then I used adjustment layers to add the color, mostly overlays in fact.

The numbers were created individually and then added to layers above before using motion and gausian blurs to blend them into the image. All the rigging on the boat was added in Illustrator and then imported as a 'smart objects' layer before flattening and blurring/blending to give it a more painted look.

Anyways, I'm really happy with this one even though it took a long time to get it right. This is probably the fifth or sixth version of the image, earlier versions being black and white, chalk and charcoal and pen and ink.