Recolored

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!

Ely Sketch number 2 (The Elephant's Child)

Took me a long time before I was satisfied with the composition and design of the animals, but I finally feel like this piece is getting somewhere.



Here is the first version of the final. I'm sure it will undergo some changes, but for now here it is.

Rebirth

was trying to make it for illustration friday but I just finished it and they have a new word now... oh wellz... I believe the word last week was "burning"

I might actually rework this to fit the ely poster since it has to do with "rebirth" and stuff.... who knows

Target Market piece II

The sketch was turned down, but I had extra time, so I did a finish of it anyways.

Target Market piece

For Tim Bower

Alice

Had to do our own version of Alice in Wonderland. Not a fan of the project criteria, but I enjoyed the process anyways.

dewdle

Doodle I did during Al Gurry's lecture on color... Decided to finish it. Eyes are funky, oh wellz.

Good Man

So the word for illustrationfriday.com this week is "afterwards". This is a book cover (front and back). The story is about a family that is murdered by a criminal on the loose. I wanted to hide as many things in this piece as I could (the butterfly, which is found in the back cover instead of the front, the hand, the arm, and the idea). This scene on the cover is at the end, where the (spoiler!) grandmother dies.

My concept is "something good that can come out of something bad". In the story, the grandmother is portraiyed as a terrible person, but right before she is shot she demonstrates some goodness in her, so I chose to show that concept through color and the way I composed things. The hat is supposed to look like a halo, and the cropping of the arm is symbolic of the crucifixion pose. Dead leaves are well... pretty self explanatory. I decided to hide the arm by making the front a road and flattening it out (suggested by Alexi Fisk). I thought it was a great idea so I ran with it.

Halloween Card for Bob Byrd

The front cover for my Halloween card project in Bob Byrd's class.

The inside will have an illustration of a bunch of monster hands reaching for candy, and it will say "Hands off my candy!"

2nd attempt at the passion

Heres my piece for Ralph's class on Tuesday. I must have traced text 3948734 times, and now my desk is a pile of tracing paper that will all be pinned up during the crit as a testament to how bad I am with text.

White shapes-not part of the poster

Raven