Old Lovers

Here is my attempt to imitate the legendary JC Leyendecker. Happy Early Valentines day! May you all feel loved :)

Happy Valentines Day!

Illustration Friday: Disguise

This assignment was a struggle. We were given a celebrity's name and had to do a caricature of them while incorporating the word of the week. My celebrity was Rainn Wilson (so of course I did Dwight Schrute) and the word was disguise. Having to disguise a caricature is a pretty difficult task. Hopefully this solution is viewed as creative and not me weaseling my way out of doing something complicated :)

Illustration Friday: The Beginning of a Lie

The word assignment for Illustration Friday was 'Beginning'. The assignment in class was to make our illustration look like woodcut or scratchboard. I'm actually really pleased with the way this one turned out. Enjoy!

The Beginning of a Lie

I.F. Searching for Spring

For Illustration Friday the word was 'Search'. For our assignment we had to do a high key illustration. Which means the darkest dark is about a mid-grey value. It was a challenge but also taught me a lot. Here it is.. enjoy!

Searching for Spring!

Young Owl

This was an Illustration I did for my first assignment in Digital Painting II and Illustration Friday. Jim Madsen is my Professor for this class and I can't tell you how excited I am that I'll be learning from one of the best this semester.

"With time comes wisdom"

Annnnnd finished. Or at least to a point. One day I'll put more highlights and textures on it.. but for now, this is as good as it's gonna get.

Little Miss Muffet Illustration

For Narrative Illustration I had to design three images to tell a story. I picked Little Miss Muffet. Here is the first Illustration.

Little Miss Muffet 

I did a quick doodle before I went to bed tonight. It's been a year since my cousin died unexpectedly and I drew a little Wonder Woman to commemorate her. I didn't know her very well. She was a little older than me but I do remember that whenever she was around everything got a lot more funny and exciting.

In Narrative Illustration our assignment was do Fan Art, yes, I was as surprised as you. I'm not a fan of many things, but I will always have a special place in my heart for the Harry Potter series. Without Harry Potter I wouldn't still believe in that magic that childhood revolves around. I choose to paint Luna because she's one of my all time favorite characters (besides Snape). Here she is in all her glory.

Luna Lovegood fan art         painted in gouache

Ninja Turtle Time

This is a baby ninja turtle. I painted it in photoshop and had an enjoyable time doing so. It was a nice break from having to do backgrounds and just do a character. I actually watched TMNT for the first time in my life in order to do a little research before starting this project. It is a strange show. Maybe you have to be a young boy to appreciate it. But besides all that... enjoy!

Baby Donatello 

Ladybug Ladybug fly away home,

your house is on fire

your children have gone

all except one and that's little Ann

whose hiding beneath the frying pan

This was my first time painting with gouache and I have to say, I actually really really liked it. It's similar to acrylics but not so plasticy feeling. It layers really nicely. It gets really really bright and very dark which I liked. So far I'm loving this semester. 

There's a caricature contest page on Facebook that I'm a part of. This weeks challenge was Robert Smith. Here's my rendition.

Our final assignment was to apply what we learned in class to a truth about tobacco contest where we created a monster that illustrated one of the facts about tobacco use. 

So here's my scary monster...

This is for the Fantasy Land assignment in my digital painting class. we had to use a combination of texture and image hose. It was pretty fun... most of the time :)