Illustration 2 Work; Spring 2010

This was a class I took with John Malloy, who no longer teaches at MICA, sadly... his teaching style really jived with my working habits, I guess. I produced a lot more work I was happy with that semester. More info above each piece.

First piece of the semester, we were asked to do something like a square image that might accompany a band review - specifically, for Dan Deacon, a local Baltimore artist that has become rather famous for some god-forsaken reason. This was done in Open Canvas 1.1 (lines) and coloring in Photoshop with manufactured textures. All of the dancers are referenced from Look At This Fucking Hipster.

 

Next piece, we were asked to do a two page editorial spread on an article about the food riots in Haiti. Once again, I did my lines in Open Canvas 1.1 and colored w/ manufactured textures in Photoshop.

We were then asked to do a digitally painted portrait of either ourselves or a friend and I chose my best buddy Mike. We had to imbue them with 'toy-like' qualities and I got pretty goofy with it. This was all done in Photoshop with I think the Nagel brush series? The semi-dry brush style ones.

This assignment was essentially a 'beverage logo' wherein we tried to encompass the appeals of the company and drink and specifically shape the logo for a wrap-around. It also had to be acrylic using a technique which John demonstrated to us. This was just acrylic. The animals kind of look like they've been skinned, huh? That wasn't intentional, actually. It was just supposed to be unifying... welp

Semi-final assignment was a band poster for a band of our choosing, had to be done digitally with work on typography. I chose Amon Tobin.

Second to last assignment: book cover illustration. I picked my FAAAVORITE BOOK EVER, The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle. Did this in crow quill w/ walnut ink and very light acrylic washes. This piece could have been much better, sadly... but there are definitely a lot of things I feel good about with it.

For the final assignment, we could literally do whatever we wanted. I wanted something to flesh out my portfolio a bit, so I did ... five? I think? I can't count, whatever - character sheets for these characters I call the 'unpopulars.' They were all done in Open Canvas 1.1

 

Well dat's all folks, ~toodlez~ for now!

Illustration 1 Work; Fall 2009

This work is from my Illustration 1 class a couple of semesters ago with Dan Krall. More information above each piece.

The first assignment was to take an album of music (of your choice) and do I think it was 3? pieces of art based on the 'vibe' of the music or something similar. I did Thanasis Papakonstantinou's 'Vrahnis Profitis' and decided to do a bit of concept art based on a character I derived based on the sound and sort of 'theme' of the music - classical Greek ballads and similar played with a contemporary twist. So I took a Greek Orthodox priest and tried to play with his contemporary qualms... I don't know how well that came off, but I think I got together quite a bit of decent art from it, although the resolution is bad. All digital, Photoshop + Open Canvas 1.1

This next assignment, we were to pick a celebrity and do first a couple of photo copies, a line piece trying to capture that celebrity's characteristics, and then a final piece of your choosing. I picked Keanu Reeves, and that's all I really need to say about that I guess. Open Canvas 1.1 & Micron pens.

Next, we had to do a contemporary & a classical take on a monster of our choosing - I picked the Domovoi, a Russian hearth spirit. These pieces literally now make me cringe. Eeeuuughh. Open Canvas 1.1

I feel like there were more assignments, but I probably did them all shitty because I had a stick up my ass so whatever. The final assignment, we were given a movie by Dan and told to do a DVD cover & layout + booklet w/ spot illustrations for it. I was given A Clockwork Orange, and I really tried to give this assignment my all, and it came out pretty all right! This was partly done in Crow Quill, edited in Photoshop & Open Canvas 1.1

A'ight, well that's everything from that semester. ~Toodlez~