Inspiring illustrators: Rob McClurkan

…The next artist I wanna share with you is Rob McClurkan. He's a illustrator based…out of Atlanta, Georgia. And this children's…book illustration utilizes a wonderful application. Of texture…and so I wanted to kind of feature that in this one and show you how Rob has…integrated that into his illustration work, and he did that by obviously…layering his files. So if we turn off…everything but the background. This is the the background…image for this specific illustration. This one's for children's…book I believe. And once again it all started…off with his concept sketch. So based off of that he built it in vector form. And…his textures are derived from real life textures. This…was made with I believe it's a wooden roller.…

To get this kind of, washed out effect. And…he has just applied that. Now the texture itself,…if we go to the Transparency palette, you can…see he's using the Blend mode of Multiply. And…that's gonna affect every color that it washes over.…And then he's organized his layers in such a…way that he has his foreground that comes in…