John Lamensdorf: Illustration Time Lapse from Sara Blake on Vimeo.

This is about 16 hours of my work process sped to 7 minutes.



The portrait is of John Lamensdorf, a recent NYU film graduate who died in a tragic lighting accident on set for a film project in Georgia. The illustration is for a T-Shirt design for the NYU Foundation started in his honor.



I start my illustration process sketching by hand with pencil and finish with watercolor. I scan and bring my work into Photoshop, usually in several pieces, and from there it's just freestyle. I try a lot of things, most of which don't work. It's a lot of play and experiment. I like to learn as I go.



MUSIC: "How it Ends" by DeVotchKa

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