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!

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:

American Proverbs

The assignment? Take an "American Proverb" and illustrate it with found objects.

The result? Take a look:

It's about time

So, I've been missing for a while, school (or lack of it as was the case during Spring Break) has gotten me off track. Waaay off track.

So, since I've missed so much, I'm posting much more. I won't be explaining much in this post, so feel free to ask if you have questions! (I like answering questions)


Inspiration comes in the strangest places sometimes, and can induce attempts at world-building. Like this, the idea beginning at some clouds I saw outside of the window of a plane I was on.
More sketches for the same world-building attempt
Sketches of some characters of mine. Ignore the bad attempt at a gun. I'm working on that.
Hand done type assignment for my Illustration class. It's an invitation to come see a documentary that's being shown at a film festival in Rwanda.
More fun with those grey markers on brown paper. Also white gel pen this time.
Quick mermaid sketch.
Character design sketch.
Practice at drawing poses, dresses, expressions, and fabric, done from the stock photography of Faestock at DeviantArt
Practice at drawing expressions, done from the stock photography of Faestock at DeviantArt.
First of three illustrations done to Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Second Metamorphosis Illustration. Tatting shuttle, a pen, and a needle and thread
Last image of the Metamorphosis illustrations. This is the final version of the one from previous posts.

Blood, Sweat...and Ink?

So, this blog's not even been up that long and already I've missed a week. At least I have a good excuse? School obviously thinks my life is tasty, because it's been eating it like crazy. BUT! I have goodies for you now! I'll let you see one of the things that I've been working on that was due two days ago.

Meet my type Specimen book. The concept: If you could only use 6 typefaces for the rest of your career, which 6 would you choose? We chose, and then took those 6 typefaces and made a specimen book for them. We wrote the content, designed the books, drew the illustrations, got them printed, and hand bound them, even wrapping the covers ourselves, if we had hard-bound covers (Yay for scrapbooking paper!) The photos don't do it justice, but they can give you an idea.







So that's it. Front to back. It looks so much better in person, but it's there! And It's done! And it cost me way too much money and stress.

It's pretty.


Aaannnd, as a bonus for not yelling at me for having nothing up last week (all 3 of you...ooh, proportional oldstyle lettering....) Have another watercolor Self portrait.




I look like one of the heads from Easter Island, which makes me laugh, at least.

Yeah.

Quickly trying to get a post up before I have to go to class. Obviously, I didn't get the post up that I was wanted to last week. This isn't even that post, but I wanted to get something up. School has decided that it likes the taste of my time and brain. I will have to put school on a diet.

Everyone remember that Pastel piece that I put up a couple posts ago? Well after doing a few projects, my Illustration class scans in our assignments, digitally manipulates them, and uses them for layouts of things that we might end up designing in the real world, including books, CDs, magazine, you name it. We've even had a few people do liquor labels. So what did that pastel turn into? Why, an ad for an energy drink, of course.