Dirty 30s

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Here is my priiide and joy from Narrative Illustration! This is my final project - a 4 page comic that pretty much ate up my social life for a good while, but it was totally worth it. :) It doesn't have a name yet. Man, doing a really accurate period piece is way harder than I ever imagined. I apologize if there are any anachronistic things in there. I really, really tried to make everything 30s accurate.

These were all 14x17" on bristol board, scanned into photoshop and then minimal colors and text put in! 

I can now say I have somewhat whipped graphite into submission. I want to get people to take graphite seriously! It's not just for sketches! 

Gouache wooooooo

Here are some more gouache paintings I did for illustration 2! The assignment was to do six sketches based on the words deadly, quiet, cluttered, intimate, simple and vast. Then we had to choose the best 3 sketches and do color finals based on them:

Cluttered

Intimate

Simple

Cluttered is a highly exaggerated Downtown L.A. Skyline, Intimate is my living room at school, and Simple is from the Angeles Crest, also in LA area. AGAIN, blogger killed my colors!! but they are more bright than they appear here. Again, if I can get better scans I will! 

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. 

There's No Place Like Home!

This is part three of a three-article-illustration assignment, this is just the one that I have scanned/like the best. I'll post the others later, when I get my lazy butt over to scan them.

Anyways... the series is movie-themed... This is a piece in reaction to this article, about how a british snake-oil salesman sold the Iraqi government $85 million dollars worth of bomb detectors that are essentially total crap and do not work. And despite recent devastating bombings and everyone yelling that the detectors are fake, the prime minister (Malaki - shown in illustration as Dorothy) keeps on buying them. Hilarity Ensues - not.

revengeeeee of the kittens..

Here is something that I just completed for Illustration 2. This assignment was to conquer our "illustration fears" and make a piece about a subject matter and with a medium that you hate/are scared of. So that explains the slightly-sketchiness. As you can probably tell, I don't like drawing animals or cutesy kitschy things, or action scenes, and I also am afraid of watercolor. Although I'm slowly getting over that fear.

Anyway.... here's Kitschy Cute Animals in Action, or

REVENGE OF THE KITTENS!!!

Honestly, I'm on the fence about this one. I like the puppy. The puppy I used for reference, although you might not be able to tell from this, is absolutely THE cutest puppy in the ENTIRE universe. It's just a little fuzzy ball of fluff. sleeping on the floor. So that made it a little better.

The weird stylized cats though... I don't know. I guess that was me trying to get away from my thing about realism, because when the cats were drawn realistically, they were just super creepy, definitely not cute at all. Jessica helped me out, recommending that I make them super loopy with the eyes really far apart, a little chibi-ized (I shudder to admit), etc. Hmm.

What do you think? Cute and adorable or vomit city?

well THAT's not what I expected!

Here's the first assignment we did for illustration 1 - the final sketch and the final ink. The prompt was: "well, that's not what I expected!"

I have to say, looking up reference images and drawing zoot suits and creepster hairstyles was pretty entertaining.

I like the sketch more, but that's just me... what do you think?

Weapon of Awesome

Here is another thing I did for inking last semester that I really like :)

I haven't done anything totally substantial that I want to share yet really this semester but soon I will, probably by next week. All the first big-shot assignments for this semester are due then. Until then, Here's the coolest, funniest actor with the sweetest dance moves: Christopher Walken! (in stipple.)

Doodle doodle doodle

Some silly things from this summer that I doodled on my tablet. :) Click to enlarge because blogspot makes them mini-size!

a Cartoon of me and my brother Morgan!

a beer that I ..cough.. didn't drink

aaaaand those things we put on our boobs.

StalinMouse

Here is an assignment for my Illustration 1 class. We had to illustrate a short short story, and mine was about a dictator who dreamt he was a mouse, and it ended with him throwing himself into a well to get closer to the moon. So, naturally, I painted a portrait of Stalin, as a mousetator. With a moon. The colors for some reason uploaded rather washed out..

22"x30"

watercolor and acrylic on paper

Haaaaamleettttttttt... Iiii ammm yourrrr fatherrrrrr's ghoooooostttt...

Here is my project from Inking earlier this semester! The project was do to a poster for the movie Hamlet with the theme "robots." I, of course, forced myself to watch the (incredibly long and painful) Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet. Branagh's idea of acting is looking tragic and yelling in anguish a lot, so Hamlet was perfect for him!

So.. It's pretty self-evident. The quote is "Something is rusting in the state of Denmark."

pretty funny huh? (oy vey)

ALSO! While I'm here... I'm going to have to do a shameless plug.

Take some time and visit the blog of the talented and lovely photographer Elle Perez! :)

Visual Journalism!

Here are my favorite pages from my Visual Journalism final! (phew) They're all collaged pages, people and compositions from my sketchbook, with some selective photoshop color thrown in :) There were 16 spreads in total...

ohhhh finals.

This is my final for Illustration 1, colored in photoshop. I really like how it came out - my class wanted me to put a light warm overlay over it but I like it better this way. Just personal preference.

Wish You Were Here

My final for Illustration 1!

The assignment was to do an illustration based on song lyrics.

Mine are from "wish you were here" by Pink Floyd:

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, running over the same old ground, what have we found, the same old fears, wish you were here."

woo!