#101 Children's Book Class

Developing characters, drawing out adorable scenes, reaching to a child's imagination... the perfect class for me! I've had a lot of fun with it and can't wait for what's to come.

Character design

Heheheheh

Some artists I kept in mind of this project...
My discovery of the great Carter Goodrich (shown below) was a huge influence on what I wanted to mold my work to look like.

Gary Kelley has been an inspiration of mine for a while now.

The influence may not be obvious at first, but it was more about injecting shapes and character to every element in the piece, although it does not have shading or hue, I hope that comes through!


I went to the library and researched a number of children's books, trying to nail a style and theme that kids would like.

#100: SCHOOL IN ALL ITS GLORY

So it's been a while sinse the last update... you could say I've been busy!  Art school is definitely just as challenging as I remember, but also just as fun.  Let's get started on some awesome portfolio pieces this year, shall we? 

Again, if you would like to see even more of my art, check out my art Tumblr!  

First of all, I'll catch you up on school work.

Here's a magazine cover I am working on for FilmComment magazine featuring the article “Prometheus: Between a rock and a hard place”.  It focuses on the impossible standards of the original alien movie they tried to live up to while still being ambiguous about the origin of aliens and ourselves.

Alternative idea...

For a Black and White Illustration class I'm designing a poster for the Sundance Film Festival.  I'm choosing between these first two.

 I'm starting a landscape class this year!

Some studies

Sketches for a oil palette knife painting.  I really like palette knives.

Here's a "moodboard" I made showing my artistsic influences.

#99 Paintings and Sketches (Indy Portrait)

Some process experimentation...

Using some distortion with the face.

All in all, a nice in-depth sketch.

Some pastel sketchies

"mini-guns"

More pics of gun babies here.

Some painting studies..

Lots of deer in our backyard.

This is my kitten watching me in a dark hallway... as quick as this painting took me, I rather like how it turned out! I'll have to remember the steps to conjuring this magical oil technique :)

We got a kitty!

Saw prometheus btw...

And here's another Indy for the heck of it.

School's almost heerreee.... so much more to come!!!

#98 Finishing editorials

It's been a few weeks, and a lot has been accomplished!

Here are the last images I illustrated for Mondokio News.

U.S. planning increase in aid to Yemen

The U.S. military is preparing to give more than $100 million in counterterrorism and security aid to Yemen this year to aid the country against an al-Qaeda affiliate.

Mitt Romney’s international relations trip off to a bumpy start.

Mitt Romney has emphasised his English ancestry after a gaffe-filled day in London.

 

 

India restores power after massive blackout

Electricity returns to much of India after second day of outages that sparked major transport disruption and traffic chaos in several cities.

 

 

US army veteran named in Sikh temple attack
Wade Michael Page, a US army veteran, has been identified as the assailant in the shooting that left six worshipers at a Sikh temple dead in Wisconsin state.

Iranian pilgrims kidnapped in Syrian capital as fighting is renewed

Renewed battles between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters overtook Damascus, and 48 Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped from a tour group.

Taliban threaten to kill ‘liberal’ Imran Khan

Pakistani group vows to attack opposition leader if he holds protest in Waziristan near the Afghan border against US drone strikes.

My last article for a long while!

So that was a really fun internship. It really tested my skills on pumping out decent work in a couple hours while trying to live my normal life.  It was great practice for a demanding job and gave me lots of opportunities to try out new techniques along the way!
A great experience.