adventures in illustration, #798!!!

assignment: illustrate a book cover.
6.25" x 9.25"
open medium

here are some sketches, illustrating various events in the book Lord of the Flies.

i'm not sure if i'm cut out for this type of work... my classmates are confused by my ideas. again.

color comp!

i'll be adding the title of the book in illustrator or photoshop, my dear classmates... save your confusion for someone else. also, i'm going to add a dead fly to the bottom, per rusty's request. sweet.


i think rusty was right.. it needed a little something else...teehee.

i also like this idea a LOT... we'll see how the shell turns out w/ gouache and move on from there, eh?

ta-daaa! i went with the first idea. i'm diggin' the dead fly :D

wh(eye) magazine

i turned this viscom4 project in on monday... what a relief to be done!! the assignment was to come up with an idea for a magazine that has something to do with graphic design...
here's the mission statement for wh(eye) magazine:

"Wh(eye) magazine is directed toward documentary photographers. The purpose of the magazine is to inform these photographers of social injustice issues around the world that need awareness so that they may be able to inform society visually of these issues."

we had to design a cover, a table of contents spread, a department spread, 2 feature spreads, and a promo piece. *whew! here's what i got:


cover

contents

department: wh(air)

feature!

promo piece: 5.5" x 8.5"
doubles as a postcard...

ssoouunndd!!! illustration.

assignment: illustrate sound
gouache or watercolor!!
10" x 14" !!

herrrre are my ideas...

and herrrre are my classmates' comments.
rusty said i could go with the abstract-ish illustration of the jazz band instead of any of the realistic ones, woot! i think i'm gonna do gouache. again.

i originally oriented the piece like this...


but i think this is kinda sweet too...



yeah i like this composition. my classmates couldn't handle the abstraction...





here's color comp #2, done in gouache


final version, 10x14", gouache.

missoura postcard

the assignment is to create a 4.5" x 6" postcard for good ol' MO that has a bleed and no text. photographic reference is allowed. illustration to be completed with gouache or watercolor.

the scenery of Missoura is what i wanted to focus on... i also think farm animals add to the charm of our state... and they're just friggin funny lookin!

teehee. grandpa and grandma would appreciate this :)


the final was done in gouache.

airbrush = satan?

here i have laid out for you my experience with airbrush/satan thus far...

spheres and a cube!! i created many more than this, as well as some cones, but those are officially off the record...too embarrassing for bloggage.

fruit! i'm kinda proud of the apple, especially how o.c.d. i was with the masking... the kiwi reflects about 2 hours of me finagling with about 40 airbrush parts and getting so frustrated that i just used an uncontrollable, spurting airbrush and then did some correcting with gouache. UGH.

the official airbrush assignment (after those horrendous exercises...) is to create a "cheesy" illustration of a subject of our choice. my mind immediately went to LISA FRANK!! i chose the dolphin... i think she has an official lisa frank name like "delphi" or sum'n...

color comp!! i have a lot of masking that i'll have to do... i plan to do the yellow and pink-ish highlights with gouache.



this is so humiliating...

teehee

(an xmas card for a.i.g.a.)

Guiness Book o' World Records Illustration

The assignment:
to create a poster that advertises a world record from Guiness' Book...
I picked the WORLD'S HEAVIEST LEMON. you didn't even know that was a category, didja...

some brainstorm action...

first sketch of the chosen idea...

i not-so-quickly realized that I had never seen lemons grow on oak tress... ^_^

new sketch! the heaviest lemon is in a grove of lemon trees, if you can't decipher that.
these trees are a bit more realistic.

marker comp!! the sky is so plain in order to leave room for the text of the poster....


ah yeeuh