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Here's another assignment for Character design - a Fly in a hospital. Prompt generated from this site! It's got tons of character and scene inspiration prompts.

Poor little fly guy. He's drawn in pencil and colored in photoshop. 

Also, here's a silly poster I designed for MICArotica's upcoming issue (which all MICA students should submit to, by the way!!!!) 

It's just a little quick thing - flexing my fledgling graphic design skills. 

Woo! 

Mo' Demons

Soooo here are the other two characters in my four-part character assignment! (first post here.)

This is the Demon of downloading music illegally (Also known as the free-music succubus :D)

And this guy is the demon of double-dipping and sticking your fingers in other peoples' food... hehe.

Again, these are all drawn in graphite, then scanned and colored in photoshop (starting to see a pattern here?) 

Here's their character sheet all together for size reference: 

Moooore

Another photo from the Langham hotel in Pasadena. I like this one cause the negative got crinkled, and it kind of looks like an old postcard or something. Looks almost too perfect to be real.

Some Photoze.

Was in the mood for posting some Photos today. These are all from summer '10

Mobil on Lake Avenue

Craft Fair in Downtown Los Angeles

My Parents Bedroom in Pasadena

Abrupt Freeway Intersection in Whittier Narrows

Langham Hotel in Pasadena (at ICON!)

Both these were taken with my little point-and-shoot in Los Angeles. 

Deeeeemons.

These are two works-in-progress-almost-done for a 4-part assignment for character design!

The backstory behind this is: My characters are d-list demons of very minor crimes and irritating things.

So, this guy is the demon who possesses guys to act like "the situation" From the Jersey shore:

(ugh - Blogger killed my colors a little bit - but it's still basically the same!) 

(Also the Ab Window shirt exists!) 

This second guy is the demon that possesses people to watch porn in the public library (yes, this happens):

Yeaaaaa! To come are the free-music succubus (the demon that possesses people to illegally download music) and the demon that possesses people to double-dip and stick their fingers in food. (Yuck!) 

This class is my first real foray into real character design! 

These are all done in graphite then scanned into photoshop and colored.

ROOM

Here's another assignment for Illustration Concepts II! The assignment was to redesign a book cover and trade sketches with another student, so you're bringing another student's rough to a finish.

The book I redesigned is called ROOM.

yey! It's a pencil drawing scanned and colored in photoshop. 

Conshepts II

Heeeeere is my first Assignment for Concepts 2! The assignment was do do a cover and three spots for the article "The New Monogamy" in Psychotherapy Networker. 

Spread:

Spot 1:

Spot 2:

These are drawn in pencil and colored digitally :)

I didn't include the third spot because it kind of needs to be re-done first. 

Figure Sculpture Dabbleage

Hello! First Update of Spring Semester :)

I've been taking a figure sculpture class - it's been really fun! It's been a while since I threw some clay around.

Here are some documentation photos!

Head :)

Full Figure! It looks disproportionate, which it might be, but the model was also pret-ty skinny. 

Fun fun times! Slapping clay around and building arm muscles. 

Here are some photos of me and Kitty Kat doing Litho in Dolphin :)

Litho Madness! Photos taken on my little trusty film camera. 

My hands will smell like gum arabic and lithotine FOREVAR.

Prriinnttsss

New parts of my final project for Intro to Print :)

PUBE CHANDELIER 

i mean what

It's a lino cut! I titled this one "Forest."

Prints... of a different kind.

I have some prints in the Wilgus gallery show "delicate!" I love pretending to be a photographer!

ANYways, here is an online version:

These are pretty hard to look at, to be honest, and were even harder to edit. This diptych is from this past august, when my grandpa was dying, and I was unconsciously photographing the whole process (in the sense that I was taking a TON of pictures of everything, and wasn't thinking about why, but now I realize that it was to record this occasion so i'll never forget it). It was this long, drawn-out experience and I had never experienced anything quite like it - everyone was just hanging around my grandparents' house in this weird state of limbo. All of us were pretty delicate - I remember feeling fragile as glass - one little thing would set any of us on a crying jag at any given time, even if we thought we were being strong. Death is a strange thing. 

Anyways. That's that.

New Pryntz

Here is some of my brand new print work - i'm trying out this new thing called "updating my blog while things are actually happening." ha ha.

This one is my very first etching! 

This one is drypoint on PVC then relief rolled.

This is the same as above, but i cut the pvc and made shapes. this one is a bitch to print. you kind of have to look at it up close to see what's going on.... but it was my first time trying this process so i'm proud of it anyway. Haha. 

This is the original collage thing for the cake cover :)

just thought it was interesting. Again, drawings from my sketchbook collaged together and colored :)

pryntz

These are just a couple of my prints! Sorry for the bad picture quality, I haven't had the time to get really quality pictures of them yet. but hopefully from these you'll get the idea. 

Drypoint on PVC for Intro to Print Media

Drypoint on PVC that I actually did for IL Concepts 1

Monotype

Monotype

More monotypes! 

This is a very small number of the things that I have produced for that class, and I'll update with more later :)

wooooo

Here are some projects from Illustration concepts:

This project was to redesign a cover for any band... So I chose the band Weather Report, and their album Black Market. This one's entirely photoshop. 

This one was just some silliness that I did after the constitution day lecture. It was a panel on gay marriage with Sharon Hayes, Dan Savage and Dr. Kendall Thomas. I think this piece pretty much sums up what I thought of the panel. 

This is an ad campaign for Converse. 'nuff said. Graphite and photoshop! 

These were illustrations (one cover, 2 spot) for an article on the NYTimes book review for the book "freedom" by Jonathan Franzen. This was the very first assignment of the year I did - don't judge me! This one's all graphite.

This one's a cover redesign for the game "Goldeneye." All photoshop! 

And lastly, this one was a cover for an article called "Is America Islamophobic?" 

graphite and watercolor, collaged in photoshop.

pheeeeeeeeew! lots of stuff! 

Update Tiem.

Sorry for being such a sloth all year (all 2.5 months of it... pff). My My, I can't believe the semester has gone so fast.

That said, here's some work from Fine Art Illustration:

These are a CD cover package redesign for the band CAKE. The album is called "B-Sides and Rarities." (heh. heh. get it?) They're both drawings in graphite, scanned in and colored in photoshop.

This is an editorial piece for the article called "whitewash in wartime" (you can read the article here)

It's basically about government propaganda during wartime, and how they manipulate the thinking of the public by being selective in their portrayals in the media. 

the line drawing was done in graphite, then scanned and colored in photoshop.

Next post Illustration concepts! 

Good-bye California, it's been lovely.