self portrait 02/06/2019

When all else fails, and you have no model... self portrait!!

Selves

a small triple self portrait to keep me busy today.  Thanks for stopping by.

Douglas Bell Named by Creative Quarterly as 100 Best Winner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Douglas Bell
Named by Creative Quarterly as 100 Best Winner

[New York] Derby 1, a project developed by Douglas Bell, was selected as one of the top 25 award-winning entries in the Professional Illustration Unpublished category. This highly selective and well-recognized competition sponsored by Creative Quarterly, The Journal of Art & Design magazine, now in its 12th year, recognizes outstanding creative work produced by artists, graphic designers, illustrators and photographers from around the world. A complete list of this year’s 100 Best winners is available at www.cqjournal.com/annual.

Winners of our quarterly competitions move on to our year-end competition where 25 winners in each category are selected by a distinguished jury. This year’s judging panel included Caitlin Karolczak, fine artist; Reiner Hebe, Hebe Webeagentur, graphic designer; Page Tsou, illustrator and Daniel Featherstone, photographer.

Entries were judged according to these criteria:

            • How well does the entry communicate?

            • How memorable or unique is the entry?

            • How strong is the entry aesthetically?

Each year winners represent countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America. Both professional and academic winners are represented.

Project title: Derby 1

Client: Self Promotion

Creative team: Douglas Bell

All winning projects will be prominently featured in the 128-page, hardbound100 Best annual coming out in May, 2017.

Creative Quarterly sponsors quarterly competitions in January, April, July and October. Information about this year’s shows is available at www.cqjournal.com/callforentries.

About Creative Quarterly

Creative Quarterly offers the best of art and design, quarterly. Founded in 2005 Creative Quarterly has received numerous international awards and recognition for its design. The magazine showcases the work of fine artists, graphic designers, illustrators and photographers, both professional and academic work is featured in both the magazine and online gallery. Creative Quarterly is distributed worldwide.

Derby 1 chosen to be in 3x3 Illustration Annual #13

Derby 1 has been selected for the Illustration Annual 3x3 #13.  I am proud and honored to again be a part of this international competition.

flight helmet

Flight Helmet;  Digital Ink, 6"x6"
The first of some smaller pieces. A months work on larger works, now turn into one week.

Derby 1 final

Derby 1- Self Portrait.  It's finally done, or I am finally done with this piece. Digital drawing 24" x 24".

Derby1 WIP Week 9

Working along and results are starting to become evident.  I hope to be done the end of next week.

Derby1 WIP week 8

Getting close to starting to see a lot of results really soon. Set up work is still going on. I am hoping that within the next week or two this will be completed.

Derby1 WIP week ... seven?

still plugging away... It's moving slowly forward.

Derby 1: WIP Week 6

Week Six, slow and steady results this week. The next couple of sessions won't show a lot of results but then all of a sudden, things will pop together.  It is an odd time for the work. I just have to keep plugging at it.

Derby 1 WIP sessions 4 and 5

Results from weeks four and five. Some progress moving forward but still a lot more to go.

Derby 1 WIP first post

Starting a new piece... this is about week three on this work in progress. A long way to go... just plug away a little bit every night.

A Warning Glance

It's done. I probably need some distance from this one. It was far more of a challenge than the previous piece. I'm happy I did it, but I am more happy that it is complete and I can start something new.

Frowning 1 WIP week 5

Got some work done this week. It was a week of many distractions and looks to continue for another two weeks. I hope to get in some quality time in the evenings. Slow but steady.

Frowning 1 Week Four WIP

Week Four.... not much to show this week. A lot of prep work and under drawing so I can apply finishes to a lot of areas in the coming weeks.

Frowning 1 WIP weekend three results.

Weekend three of a new digital ink drawing. A lot of results this week. We shall see if I am getting faster. I hope so... I think so. Hope all is well out there for whomever sees this. Thanks for stopping by.

New digital ink portrait Frowning1 - week two Work in progress

I started my second digital ink portrait, and this time it is the start of three self portraits. For some reason, the second of anything for me is really tough to pull off successfully. Maybe I set my sights to high, perhaps after an initial success, I want even larger swings into the realm of achievement and that just doesn't happen in the real world.  But win or lose, I have been working on this piece and think I have it bent into a pleasing direction finally.

self portraits in honor of self portrait day.

I missed Self Portrait day (November 1).. I didn't know about it, so this weekend I did a couple of very small self portraits. Fun Stuff.