Clouds, Shiny Bowl, and Snow!

Our latest project in my Advanced Graphics class was a book cover series project. We each read three stories and did a series of three book covers for it. Simple, right?

Wrong. The difficulty lies in making the covers similar enough to be recognizable as a series, but different enough to make them individually interesting as well as not making the series boring. Basically you don't want your series to just be a fill in the blank template. I made them similar by using the same style and organization of the type (same fonts, put together the same way, separated by three lines, etc.) as well as by making the illustration be a mix of a photograph and a drawing. They're made different by the placement of the text (this is a big thing that it's flexible), using different media for each drawn portion (Top: Ink, Middle: Charcoal, Bottom: Graphite), as well as just having different illustrations.




My favorite is The Snowfall.

Come One, Come All

This time, I display the circus poster done for my 3D illustration class, made via paper sculpture and photoshop. Enjoy!

Not too bad...

...for not having digitally painted in a while.

Just a quick (1 hour) digital painting to keep myself from getting too rusty.

The Faces Watching Me

Haven't had much time lately to draw for myself - or to sleep for that matter - but have some more faces I did using myself as reference.

Snow White and Rose Red

Not to be confused with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. No relation other than the name.

This was an assignment for my 3D Illustration class. We picked a fairy tale from the list, found a model and had them pose for us and then adjusted/aged the image and created a page layout for a collectors style book.

So without further ado:


And this image by itself in all it's fake aged glory: