I chose this illustration because I thought it was one of the best from the many we did. All three of my line art choices are the three I redid on Illustration Board. So anyway, This was an observational piece of my headphones. I tried to use Directional line to give a sense of proportion and definition. I thought the lettering and the Form parts of the drawing came out best.
2nd Traditional Line Art
This was a broken line style picture of a person walking away. FYI, I have no clue who this dude is. Anyway, I tried to go for something different with this piece, mainly because drawing people is not my strong point. I thought it gave an interesting effect, and helped to show where some light fell. Probably could have done with some heavier line quality on some points, but otherwise its one of my strongest line arts.
3rd Traditional Line Art
This is my strongest line art piece. You wouldn't believe how soul destroying it was to do all the little symbols. So yeah, this is a observational nature piece, where I imaged the surface of the tree using symbolic lines. The heavy outer line really helped to define the tree from the background.I considered adding more to the background past the horizon line, but I felt that anything more would have taken away from the tree.
1st Watercolor
This is the 20x30 watercolor we did, The first one. This is the definitely the best watercolor Ive done to date. I chose a landscape that interested me and limited myself to yellows, golds and browns to accomplish the piece. I really think the heavier gold shadowing around the horizon line helped define the difference between the sky and the reflections in the water. I struggled with the stones underneath the water for quite a while, but I think after messing around with them a lot I eventually go them kinda right.
This was done in our first class session with watercolors, Seems like forever ago. I took my time, and got it done right. I deliberately left the background pale and very undefined to keep the foreground tree as the focus. I thought I captured the Color and density of the leaves quite well, using a sponge for the effect. The only annoying thing is that I can see the Branches through the leaves. Learn and let live I guess.
1st Traditional Color and Line
This is a butterfly on some leaves with a fairly washy background. Of this portfolio, my color and line is probably the worst. Looking through what I had, I couldn't find any really good ones. Anyhow, I liked the colors I used I used for the patches on the butterfly wings and the line effect I got from the pen.
2nd Traditional Color and Line
This is a Mountain which is reflecting itself in the water. I used a few washes and added some small shadow detail on the sides of the mountain to give it some form. The line art was used to give it some definition. I really simplified the illustration down to make it work with the wash.
3rd Traditional Color and Line
So yeah, This is a random book....Even says it on the cover! I was just messing around with washes and what I could do when line a was added. I felt this was a good piece, as the wash contrasted well with the book, and the line helped to give it grounding, definition and form.
Gouache Illustration
I chose the Lincoln illustration I did mainly cause the other Gouache painting Ive done is the the three image montage and it SUCKED. I used a Gesso spray before painting onto the watercolor paper and it really helped with blending in this piece. My favourite part of this one are the Blood and its reflection and also the floor boards (surprisingly enough) This took several hours, but thankfully I chose a simple illustration and had a good composition.
Digital line Art
SO. You may notice, but this looks familiar to my watercolor landscape. I really liked the image, so It was my first choice for trying out the Wacom tablet. I really liked the effect I could get by getting in close with the zoom and laying down some directional line. That combined with how the stones underneath the water turned is why I chose this illustration.
Digtal Line art with Color
This is for my Number 5 project. Its still in need of some correction before hand in time, but I think its far enough along to warrant a spot in my portfolio. I particularly thought the hand and cards were coming along well. Being able to blend colors in Sai is really handy, and can be used to get come good effects. The designs on the cards are actually easier to make than I thought they would be.
Artist Choice
Couldn't help but include this little bomb, one of my comps for the life and death project, It was done in Sai with the wacom tablet. I chose to do something resembling cartoon bombs found in the likes of loony tunes for example. Therefore when I went into Sai to do this I knew exactly what I was doing, and put this out a lot quicker than my other comp. I thought the shadow of the bomb and the lighting really brought it to life. I also loved the little Skull Face.
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