So yesterday I posted my final illustration for Illustration Friday, but I also wanted to share the original sketch I drew for the project. This is a little, well, alot more realistic version of the final image. Now why didn't I finish this image as opposed the the more cartoony one? I think it is because I am trying to get a grasp on a style that is my own. I think there is an inclination (at least for me) to start off wanting to be realistic to show, at least to myself, that I can do it. I also have a tendency to want to go in a million directions at once and the harder thing for me to do is buckle down and say this is the path I am walking on now. Some people call it branding their style and artists and creative types probably don't want to box themselves in in that way. They can be a photographer, a graphic designer, a film maker, an illustrator ( I write these because these are all skills that I have, yours might be a little different) but to be all of those things ...