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

Inventor

We had to do a portrait of an inventor with his invention for Tim Bower, and I didn't want to do a portrait of a real person, so here is my way around the assignment.

Final for Bob Byrd

The Eagle and the Arrow

An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to death. Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, with its life-blood pouring out of it. Looking down upon the Arrow with which it had been pierced, it found that the shaft of the Arrow had been feathered with one of its own plumes. "Alas!" it cried, as it died,

"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

For Ralph Giguere

Mummz

First piece for Tim Bower. Had to make a 2 page spread for an ad. The assignment was to take a historical figure (in this case, King Tut), and a contemporary product (ipods/ipad/ipod tough etc) and combine them in a piece.

this was the original color sketch:
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Bob Byrd

A Hound, roaming in the forest, spied a lion, and being well used to lesser game, gave chase, thinking he would make a fine quarry. Presently the lion perceived that he was being pursued; so, stopping short, he rounded on his pursuer and gave a loud roar. The Hound immediately turned tail and fled. A Fox, seeing him running away, jeered at him and said, "Ho! ho! There goes the coward who chased a lion and ran away the moment he roared!"

Gnarble Fish

Other Sketch

Another color sketch for the same project as the abe lincoln sketch

Sketch

Color sketch numero uno for Tim Bower. First assignment was to put a historical figure with a contemporary object. We had to make a 2 page ad for a magazine, so I chose a razor and... hopefully the face is recognizable... I tried to make his skin look like cracking sand but I think i might have to do something different for the final if this sketch is picked.