{"id":1468,"date":"2019-01-04T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:20:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T21:20:32","slug":"ajushi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"Ajushi"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ajushi<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 (ah-juh-shee) – n. a polite term of referring to an older male stranger equivalent to mister or sir<\/span>
-SLANG sometimes used in an endearing or sarcastic way with an older friend to tease them about their age
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A friend of mine was hosting a New Year’s Eve party and I had decided to make him a whiskey bottle label.\u00a0 He had just made his own bourbon in an oak mini-barrel that he soaked in port wine.<\/p>

My friend is a bit of a class clown-type and so I decided to change up my drawing style and go for a light-hearted cartoon that bordered on a caricature.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Here is the progression of the earlier sketches.\u00a0 I knew that I would be inking this so I didn’t bother with trying to keep the lines clean at first and concentrated more on the gesture and the facial expression.<\/p>

Click on any of the images on this page to see the larger higher resolution version.<\/p>

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I decided not to go full caricature and instead opt for more of a newspaper editorial cartoon style.\u00a0 My friend is also a big fan of politics and a news junkie so I figured that style would fit his personal taste as well.\u00a0 It was important to make sure that I didn’t make the final look too manga-ish and so I had to be careful not to make him look too much like a little kid.<\/span><\/p>

You can’t see the change as well through the progression of the sketches but in the split screen below on the initial sketch to the final inked illustration I think it comes out in a subtle way.

Drag the slider bar left and right to see the differences between the first sketch and the final illustration below.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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And here is the final bottle label…<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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ajushi  (ah-juh-shee) – n. a polite term of referring to an older male stranger equivalent to mister or sir-SLANG sometimes used in an endearing or sarcastic way with an older friend to tease them about their age -ORIGIN Korean A friend of mine was hosting a New Year’s Eve party and I had decided to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,35,37,8],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork","category-blog","category-illustrations","category-life","tag-ajushi","tag-cartooning","tag-cartoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rock-step.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}