Landscape

It's been awhile since I did a landscape without any figures.  Brings me back to that assignment with Mark about color and how things go back and come forward.  It was a very frustrating project because I had never though about color that way, but fortunately I learned a lot from it (though I will never fully understand his souped-up color wheel and theories about it).  I was worried that I broke the space too evenly (1/3 1/3 1/3 from top to bottom), but I actually ended up liking it that way.

 

 

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Here's the piece I did for Mark junior year.  It's funny how I was trying to solve the problem of perspective in such a mathematical way back then.  Now that I work digitally, it's more of a gut feeling.

Flyin Deerz

An interior piece for the children’s book I’m working on.  I needed some reference for how to make the sparks, so I checked out my old teacher’s painting of an uppercut.  http://www.drawger.com/tonka/?article_id=10090

Book Updates

Book Cover

Children's Book

The third spread for the book

Children's Book

First two finals for the book!

Ely

So here are three out of the four Just-So-Stories illustrations for my senior thesis here at Uarts. I decided to submit the top one to illustration friday because the word this week is "surrender."

From top to bottom:
How the Rhino Got His Skin
How the Whale Got His Throat
The Elephant's Child


And here is the revised Ely Poster

Ely Poster/Ely number III sketch

This week's Illustration Friday word is "resolutions." This coming year my class will be graduating from The University of the Arts, and we will be on our own. This is a poster of our Senior Thesis called the "Ely". I'm sure everyone has different plans after graduation, as well as different resolutions. I depicted us as baby turtles crawling to the ocean; some get there before others.

This is kind of a new way of coloring for me. Yuko Shimizu recently visited my school and said some things about the way I worked, so I'm trying to pull back on the rendering with photoshop gradations and concentrate on showing form through pattern and line.




It's has taken me for-freaking-ever to come up with a composition and point of view that I'm happy with, but I'm starting to realize that it's probably going to be a typical thing for my work in the future. If only I could pump out sketches that I am always happy with.....

Now to get some reference for the figure!