bookstore customer sketch, from 2005 sketchbook.  Copyright Vincent Desjardins.
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bookstore customer sketch, from 2005 sketchbook.  Copyright Vincent Desjardins.

Sketchbook doodle, triangle-man, copyright Vincent Desjardins.
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Sketchbook doodle, triangle-man, copyright Vincent Desjardins.

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Sketchbook doodle, bean-man, copyright Vincent Desjardins.
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Sketchbook doodle, bean-man, copyright Vincent Desjardins.

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Garden Life Cycle Toon Boom Studio experiment

Garden Life Cycle

First Experiment with Toon Boom Studio 5.0

Running Rabbit

This was a style experiment that I did a couple of years ago in Adobe Illustrator using a limited palette of colors. Copyright Vincent Desjardins.
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This was a style experiment that I did a couple of years ago in Adobe Illustrator using a limited palette of colors. Copyright Vincent Desjardins.

This was my entry for this week’s ‘Blown Covers’ contest.  The theme was weddings.  I wasn’t feeling too inspired, but I had fun anyway. I tried to make this cross section of a New York building look like the panels of a comic strip.  My title for this was ‘Second Thoughts.’  Created in Painter 12, copyright Vincent Desjardins. 
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This was my entry for this week’s ‘Blown Covers’ contest.  The theme was weddings.  I wasn’t feeling too inspired, but I had fun anyway. I tried to make this cross section of a New York building look like the panels of a comic strip.  My title for this was ‘Second Thoughts.’  Created in Painter 12, copyright Vincent Desjardins. 

A quick sketch created in Painter for “Illustration Friday.” The word challenge was Sweater.  This was my first idea.  The version I ended up submitting was entirely different.
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A quick sketch created in Painter for “Illustration Friday.” The word challenge was Sweater.  This was my first idea.  The version I ended up submitting was entirely different.

This is one of my earliest illustrations created using Painter. This was from the days when it was still owned by Fractal Design. I think this was created around 1994 or 95. Some of the details in the image were created with Painter’s ‘image hose,’ which I think was fairly new at the time.  My inspiration for this image was the “Gormenghast,” trilogy of books by the great English author, Mervyn Peake.  Copyright Vincent Desjardins.
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This is one of my earliest illustrations created using Painter. This was from the days when it was still owned by Fractal Design. I think this was created around 1994 or 95. Some of the details in the image were created with Painter’s ‘image hose,’ which I think was fairly new at the time.  My inspiration for this image was the “Gormenghast,” trilogy of books by the great English author, Mervyn Peake.  Copyright Vincent Desjardins.

An illustration I created in 2010 as a submission for Tomie dePaola’s annual SCBWI illustration challenge.  The challenge for this particular year was to illustrate the opening scene of “Heidi.” I colored the image with collaged textures of actual leaves and flowers that I scanned and then tweaked in Photoshop.  I also did some additional painting on the image in Corel Painter. I actually ended up re-doing this illustration and submitting a slightly different version, but there are still things I like about this version. Copyright Vincent Desjardins.
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An illustration I created in 2010 as a submission for Tomie dePaola’s annual SCBWI illustration challenge.  The challenge for this particular year was to illustrate the opening scene of “Heidi.” I colored the image with collaged textures of actual leaves and flowers that I scanned and then tweaked in Photoshop.  I also did some additional painting on the image in Corel Painter. I actually ended up re-doing this illustration and submitting a slightly different version, but there are still things I like about this version. Copyright Vincent Desjardins.

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