Here's my latest assignment for a class, still in the drafting/sketch phase.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
3rd form sketches
Some of you might be surprised to know that this creature is in the Wizard of Oz. Look it up.
Here's my latest assignment for a class, still in the drafting/sketch phase.
Here's my latest assignment for a class, still in the drafting/sketch phase.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Poster Commission: Old Main
This was a poster commission from the older brother of a friend of mine. He wanted a vector-ish poster mimicking the style of Jacob Weinstein of a building called Old Main at the University of Arizona. He was pretty particular about the color scheme so I did it with more realistic colors. The full size is 18x24 which is definitely the biggest image I've ever done digitally (or ever).
It was $100 for the whole thing, so if anyone wants something like this for that kind of price, I'd be happy to do this kind of thing again.
It was $100 for the whole thing, so if anyone wants something like this for that kind of price, I'd be happy to do this kind of thing again.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Cool Table
During one of my classes, we were supposed to hang around campus and sketch. I was near the cafeteria and at the table directly across from me were three guys all doing... something... on their laptops. It was a Kodak moment that I was in the right place at the right time for:
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Fortune Cookie Assignment
This piece was for a digital illustration class. I was supposed to design a conceptual image for a random fortune that I got out of a stale fortune cookie. Mine read: "You will be rewarded for your patience and understanding."
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Wizard of Oz: Flying Monkey Captain
Another assignment for the Concept Design class. Its not finished, but its a start
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Fun in the Snow
...is overrated. Snow is not fun for me unless I'm watching it from inside a warm, dry house. Drinking hot cocoa. In a blanket. With a pizza.
Anyway, I did this for a sketch challenge on another blog and ended up really liking it, so I colored it in and this is probably all its gonna become.
Anyway, I did this for a sketch challenge on another blog and ended up really liking it, so I colored it in and this is probably all its gonna become.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Oz Updates
Updates for my concept design class:
Finalized my concept for Dorothy; after some advice from my teacher, I warmed up the colors and put a little bit more red into the cheeks. He also advised to make the pupils larger, but I think its a bit more my style to keep them small. I'm fairly pleased with the way it is now though, so this will probably be the finished version:
Because I liked the Tin Woodsman design so much, I wanted to work it into an environment. After spending all night trying to work something out, this was my first attempt:
The real problem that I realized was that my trees suck and I don't have much of a knack for leaves. Mainly I was trying to paint them individually and I need to learn how to better paint them as clumps/masses of single color. On my second time around I recycled the forest background to become a kind of dingy, bleak sky. I gave it more of a wasteland appearance to fit the feeling of loneliness that the Tin Man would more realistically feel with the absence of a heart (instead of the sort of goofy, nonsensical "I would ____ but I don't have a heart" he's always saying in the story). I switched the butterfly out for a bird to change the narrative of the piece a little since a bird implies that the Tin Man is chopping down its home, making it all the more meaningful to contemplate what would be going through his mind as the bird perched on his finger, especially with the apparent lack of compassion due to his missing organ.
Our latest assignment was to paint an environment from the story and do a color key for it. I chose the Witch's castle. On my first try I spent alot more time developing the sketch and design of the castle than I did the color study; the result was not sooo great and kind of messy.
On my second try, I kept things much simpler and went for an easier, creepier color scheme.
Finalized my concept for Dorothy; after some advice from my teacher, I warmed up the colors and put a little bit more red into the cheeks. He also advised to make the pupils larger, but I think its a bit more my style to keep them small. I'm fairly pleased with the way it is now though, so this will probably be the finished version:
Because I liked the Tin Woodsman design so much, I wanted to work it into an environment. After spending all night trying to work something out, this was my first attempt:
The real problem that I realized was that my trees suck and I don't have much of a knack for leaves. Mainly I was trying to paint them individually and I need to learn how to better paint them as clumps/masses of single color. On my second time around I recycled the forest background to become a kind of dingy, bleak sky. I gave it more of a wasteland appearance to fit the feeling of loneliness that the Tin Man would more realistically feel with the absence of a heart (instead of the sort of goofy, nonsensical "I would ____ but I don't have a heart" he's always saying in the story). I switched the butterfly out for a bird to change the narrative of the piece a little since a bird implies that the Tin Man is chopping down its home, making it all the more meaningful to contemplate what would be going through his mind as the bird perched on his finger, especially with the apparent lack of compassion due to his missing organ.
Our latest assignment was to paint an environment from the story and do a color key for it. I chose the Witch's castle. On my first try I spent alot more time developing the sketch and design of the castle than I did the color study; the result was not sooo great and kind of messy.
On my second try, I kept things much simpler and went for an easier, creepier color scheme.
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