POSTER DESIGN YOU

UPDATE: PROJECT FINISHED!

Sorry for the terrible Soviet Russia joke, I couldn't help myself.

In any case, this is a series of travel posters for St. Petersburg, Russia. I know this looks more like graphic design than illustration, but I have been having a kind of strange graphic design sensibility lately. As in, if given the chance to do something simple instead of complex, i'll choose simple and understated. 

Anyways, I have the intended six posters:

The silhouettes of the statues are all various historic landmarks in St. Petersburg in this order: St. Peter himself, memorial to the siege of Leningrad, Mother Motherland Statue, Alexander Column, Nicholas I monument, and Alexander III Monument. 

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. 

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! 

With Arms Outstretched

Here's an assignment I did for Narrative Illustration... the assignment was to do a front and back album cover for a song, as if it were coming out as a single LP. for mine, I chose "With Arms Outstretched" by Rilo Kiley. The lyrics are here! These are also my first official gouache paintings! I had a lot of fun with these.

For some reason, Blogger killed the colors a little, so they appear way more desaturated in these scans than they do in real life. Sigh, technology. If i can get better color scans I'll update this later.