Children's Book Illustration (fall 2010, 2 weeks left)

I'm going to start posting some stuff from the classes I have this semester, even though there's only a couple of weeks left. I've just been wanting to post some of it online for a while now.

And, like some previous posts, these images are in reverse chronological order (the more recent projects are shown first).


This is the rough storyboard for my final project in Children's Book Ill. I have to make this storyboard, and then three full-color illustrations. My story is about a pigeon who sees a hat he likes in a magazine, and tries to go find the same hat for himself.


These were some drawings I made for a "one day" project that involved trying to create characters and images that could be used for a children's board book.



This was an ABC book illustration project. I picked castles for my theme. These three are all either in Scotland or Ireland. I looked at a medieval font alphabet I found online for the lettering. Coloring was digital.


This project involved illustrating a poem. I chose an excerpt from a poem about pigeons. I played with some watercolor and scanned the results, then incorporated some of that into the picture. I liked the visual feel of the final, and hope to try more things like this in the future.



Imagination themed illustration - "Cats Coming Out of Your Ears". Gouache. The second image contains color studies. This was one of my first illustrations with gouache, I was happy with how this it turned out!


Childhood Memory piece. Scanned line drawing then did some loose coloring.

Intro. to Comics (spring 2010)

This was my final project for the class, based on an incident that happened when I was a kid at a local pond.



This was a 1-page "environment set-up" comic. I didn't finish the last two panels, had sort of a fun (if obsessive) time with the rest.

The following was a biographical comic I made about the French comic artist Moebius.

This next image was a lettering exercise and got me my first practice with a nib and also applying ink with a brush.

For this assignment, each person in the class had to take a pre-made script and draw the comic for it.

Digital Illustration (spring 2010), part 2

Most of this is in backwards order (in the order of when I did them during the semester), but it's such a pain for me to figure out how to re-arrange images right now (without using the HTML mode), that I'm just going to keep them how they are.

The first few are from a project where we had to make an illustration based off of a movie conversation excerpt or an overheard bit of conversation. I thought I overheard some students one day saying something about "Over there in his head", so that's what I used.

Digital Illustration (spring 2010), part 1

Just some various thumbnails and small illustrations I did for Digital Illustration.

First few sketches are for a project with the theme "numbers" (themes/prompts were always pretty non-specific in that class), and the incomplete two-headed goose illustration was the final idea for that project.





These plug things were for a patterns project.



Part 1 because it is way too late for me to spend any more time on this. :P

Drawing: Figure (spring 2010)

Here's some stuff from my Drawing Figure class in the spring semester (2010). The first couple of pieces shown here aren't super-great, but I liked how my "subcutaneous" drawing/drapery study turned out, and I was quite happy with the "Sentenced" piece (guy climbing the stairs). The one shown here is a little different from the one I posted on my deviantART and elsewhere. Also, the project involved using what you had learned in the class so far and applying it to the type of work you might do for your area of study (mine being illustration, I made a piece with some kind of narrative). The final few images are of the final project, where I decided to look at how I perceived my relationship to my twin brother Dustin.

Ideation and Process, Fall 2009

Here are some images of work I did in my Ideation and Process class, during the fall semester of 2009. Projects in this class were pretty open-ended and tended to be more conceptually-based.

The image below is from the "Artist as Curator" project. I scanned various comic strips, took out either the dialogue or characters themselves, printed each strip out, then placed them at different locations around my school with instructions to "fill in the blanks" and turn in to my school mailbox or e-mail them to me. All of the ones turned in to my mailbox were anonymous and most of them were pretty crude (but still funny in their own way). I asked a few friends to fill some in too. This full-page spread includes unaltered comic strips also.

Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to get the image big enough to read all of the comics, I found larger images of it and tried to upload those instead, but they just load at the exactly same size. :/



The following image comes from a project my I & P teacher asked everybody to do on the side. It involved making a space in your apartment or studio to accumulate images you thought were interesting. I didn't always take images I thought were interesting, although that was the reason sometimes. Some of the images I chose because they had some relevance to my daily life, or I thought they would look good pasted up next to something else. Also I tried to make some sort of structure to the thing, and there is kind of a face/figure thing going on, too.



The next two images were from a project where simply the word "language" was our prompt. I had fun cutting out a newspaper article and making three towers out of them. The "debris" at the base of each tower are the actual scraps that were cut out from the pieces above.




These drawings came from a project where we were asked to look at a website called "Learning to Love You More" where two people, for eight years, would come up with new "assignments" on a regular basis for the general public to complete. They asked people who completed the assignments to send in images of their work, too, which they would display on the site. Anyway, I chose an assignment that involved drawing the "daily news"; I picked a story about Ted Kennedy.



This was an assignment where we were asked to observe the lives of others in some way and make a piece of art based on that. I found a craigslist ad where somebody was looking for a "singing bowl" to use for yoga (something I had never heard of before but I looked up images/videos of it and drew from those).



The piece below was done for a project called "Five Obstructions", based on a movie we watched in class. Each student had to impose five obstructions upon themselves in making a piece of art.