Sunday, March 24, 2013

King Richard III coin. Ink Illustration.

This very rare Richard III Penny is for sale at Historic Coinage . I did the illustration for the seller, and it was a pretty fantastic opportunity! Said coin the current best example of this sort of penny, even better than the one held by the British Museum! This is the completed ink illustration done from a photograph of the coin itself. This illustration is considerably larger than the actual coin, but was not needed as a technical illustration for a journal or anything, so was not done to a particular scale. I used two pieces of permatrace (velum) for this illustration, one for the pencil layer, and one for the inking. I then scanned the image into photoshop and touched up particular areas for the final product digitally. Both the recto and verso sides are shown

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