Color Illustration
Color Illustration
Generally most of my illustrations start as pencil roughs, then ink line work, and finally composited and enhanced digitally. Some are even created entirely within a digital medium such as the Oliphon image below. Here is a sampling of ny color illustration which shows my range of styles and approach of a subject (which follows the dictates of its market focus). Below the individual images are image carousels grouped by project. Please click here to ask for permission to use as an illustration or to commission me for a new project. All images here are copyrighted works by me, Roberto F. V. Sabas, except where noted.
Sax Player Inverted (circa 1985/2008),
ink & color pencil, then digitally enhanced
Sax Player (circa 1985/2020/2024),
color marker, then digitally enhanced
Sax Player (circa 1980),
ink, color pastel, & gouache
Blind Man (2017), ink & marker on ruled paper,
digital color (11x8)
Gift (2018), graphite & digital color rendering (10x5)
Gold Mask (ca 1990/2017), graphite/digital color rendering (8x11)
Flow: Speak: Love (ca 1986/2021), airbrush,
then digital color compositing & rendering (17x11)
Flame Head (1999/2000),
digital paint
Snowy Scene (1998/2021), ink/digital color rendering (8.5x12)
Caila Niaro, aka Creation of the World (1999/2000), digital creation (9x5.5)
Alone (ca 1995), ink & color pencil (8x11)
Ozymandias aka Plebe Fish's Backward Discovery (ca 1995/2017), ink, digital color (11x7.5)
Moon Heron (2002), graphite, digital compositing & color (4x6)
Sedona Landscape reimagined for Hills of Ony'Sai (1999),
photo, charcoal, digital compositing & color (24x8)
L.A. Sun (1999),
digital creation (1:1)
Red George aka Laughing George (1999),
digital creation (6.5x6.5)
Repair Woman (ca 1987/2021), graphite & marker/
digital compositing
& color rendering (9x12)
Fragmented aka Shattered (ca 1986/2017), oil on masonite/
updated with digital color rendering (9x12)
Miss Jones (2022),
mixed media/
digital compositing
& color rendering (10x14)
Blue Thunder (2018),
digital creation
Twin Yellow Zebras (2016),
fat black marker/
digital compositing
& color rendering (14x13)
Fear (1999),
digital creation (1:1)