Amp Head

Great Grey Owl

    This piece is about how Great Grey Owls and their amp-shaped heads that provide a sonar while hunting, making them very effective killers.

Portrait of Adora

Portrait of Adora

Put Your Thinking Caps On!

I've recently been commissioned to do a portrait of someone's child.  I could do whatever I want with it, so I wanted to illustrate how kids are sometimes smarter than adults.  Owls are often called "wise", so I decided to add it to the piece.

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Collaboration II

Heres another collaboration I did with Kayla Miller.  She's a promising and upcoming junior at the Uarts illustration department.

In case you guys needed explanation, these are dresses based on different meals of the day.

Portraitinnn

I've been fooling around with photoshop and trying new ways to color things without linework.  The more I do it, the more I realize how much drawing I need to be able to figure things out.  It's tough to try thinking like a painter!

Collabo with Engel

Here's a collaboration I did with Steph Engel.  Her drawing was so good that it did all the work for me!

Graduated!

    So it's been a few months since I've updated because of how busy the end of senior year was.  Most of the time it wasn't even illustrating; it was trying to get our stuff together for the Ely, then for Portfolio Day in NYC.
    Here's a couple of updates!

Ill Fri- Cultivate

This is a piece for my Personal Viewpoints class. The job was an editorial in Runners World Magazine for seasonal shoe guides, so I picked Spring. I also thought it fit with this week's Illustration Friday word.

Portraitin

Original painting ("Biondinia") done by Lord Frederick Leighton. What a name!

Eos

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

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!