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Third labor of Hercules

This is the second illustration that was done for a direct mail campaign promoting a motivation lecture. The campaign used the Labors of Hercules as its theme.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Eleventh labor of Hercules

This illustration was done for a direct mail campaign promoting a motivation lecture.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Spanish soldier for museum Signage

This is one of nine illustrations that I did for an historical arms museum
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Well armed 1850s gambler

Here is another scratchboard illustration (there were 9 illustrations for this project) to be used on signage inside a history of arms museum.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Cleopatra for southwestern bell

Received a call from Gail Boosmworth, the art buyer for DMB&B (St. Louis), to do black and white art for a Southwestern Bell TV commercial promoting 3-way calling. The commercial would feature three portraits, Queen Victoria, Catherine the Great and Cleopatra.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Making bread with scratchboard & Photoshop

A pencil is done, working at the same size as the printed piece. I usually work a little larger than the printed piece, but this illustration is fairly large and will generally be viewed from a distance.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Adding color to line art with Photoshop

To use Photoshop 5.5 in this process of adding color to line art, it's important that you begin with the art in Bitmap mode.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Sailor & sails with Photoshop & Scratchboard

This scratchboard illustration was to run in one of a series of three different ads for ASU Group, a Midwestern insurance company.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Building a house with Photoshop

To do this conceptual line art illustration that will be used in a newspaper ad for GE Mortgage, Illustrator was used for the outline drawing and Photoshop was used to add the final details.
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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Digital video frame to a woodcut icon

In this tutorial a low resolution image is used, a frame from a digital video camera
Image and tutorial by Michael Halbert

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