Rusty!

You already have one of my Portfolio pieces, The Society of Illustrators. Its the Giant Heart.

Final Portfolio

So, Here goes a nice big 65% of my Grade. In no particular order...

#1 Society of Illustrators.

I feel that this is my best piece from Illustration. It was the first Digital Painting where everything really clicked, and I really got a hang of working with the Tablet. I really enjoyed having a completely open concept on which to work on. I also got a lot of feedback on Rusty on this, which probably helped a lot. I felt the organic and mechanical elements looked pretty nice side by side, and the different ways I showed them meshing the middle. If I had time to change things, I would have fixed the upper left tube and fixed up some detail on the metal components. Otherwise I was very happy how this turned out. I also really liked the white background for some reason, really helped bring the heart to life.

#2 Life and Death

I really like the Life and Death project, In particular I liked my Life concept from the first Comp. I designed the simple cartoon bomb based off classical cartoons such as Loony tunes and also the Bo-ombs from The Mario games. I was happy how the final illustration turned out, and What I managed to convey using very little color. I thought the Skull and crossbones mark stood out well on the bomb, as well as the spark of fire on the fuse. The Smoke on the Death illustration also looks good, Unfortunately I was never able to fully resolve the blast marks on the ground to a point I was happy with.

#3 Classical Composer Album

I chose the Classical composer project as I thought it could be some of my better work, as when I first handed it in it left a lot to be desired. So I spent some time fixing up weak spots such as the pen and pocket watch and fixed some of the coloring. All together I think it comes together well. I kind of which the claws holding the pen looked a bit better... I had a lot of trouble getting those right. I liked working with the colors in this illustration. The blue and grays of the Magpie looked really nice, and the red and oranges of the background were really vivid. I thought the Type went well with the image, and retains its readability at smaller sizes.

#4 Book Cover

For my Book cover, I chose to Do George Orwells 1984, a Dystopian vision of the future. The concept behind this was graffiti like type blending together, containing terminology from the book. Above this all is the Harsh bright red word 'Obey', Because one does not defy Big Brother. I liked the simple concept behind this illustration, and it was interesting to do something with only type. I originally planned to do this on Art board with some inks, but time constraints and my judging eye deciding I didn't have enough Ink meant it was Digital. Like everything else in this portfolio. I was mostly happy with how this turned out, The layered effect of Obey was something I hadn't planned on, but seems to work well. The only problem I have with it is the background, which is just too strong/solid of a color. If I had managed to create a much lighter paper texture I would be more happy.

THIS.

Yeah, completed World record Illustration, two days after it was due. This actually looks a LOT better than I thought it would. I kind think the sprays of fizz could have used some work, as well as the mentos packets.

Illustration is cool

This is awesome and you should gaze upon it with those two jelly globes you call eyes IMMEDIATELY.

http://anexquisitebeast.com/

This is pretty cool, each illustration works in the next one, and it seems to be updated daily.

Also, this

http://www.agoodson.com/

The glory of the copy/paste function

Managed to avert the crisis and get something done. Kinda different from my comp, but still sticking to the same idea. Just need to fix up some of the coloring on the brown fizz, and show the mentos more.  Im thinking of adding in a packet of two flying up into the air in the background.

Well...Crap.

 So I spent like an hour messing around with Sai to get a nice looking 2 litre bottle of Diet coke to use as a template for my World record illustration. I've now hit that awesome snag were Ive realized that Sai doesn't really have the tools to select the Bottle without any white space, and when I take it into Photoshop it becomes kinda transparent. And there's still a white around it!

ON the other hand, the black background looks cool. I better not have to do this in Photoshop :(

Thoughtcrime does not entail death, thoughtcrime IS death

Sooo, I was actually really excited about coming up with an awesome book cover, cause frankly I love 1984 by George Orwell. If you haven't read it, I would highly recommend it. On the first one I went for a combination of graffiti style type consisting of terms from the book. They culminate into the the Giant 'Obey'  written in a shocking colour reminiscent of blood. I think the Thick type for the title really helped with bringing it all together. I'm going to be creating the actual illustration using a calligraphy pen and some India ink. I'm going to use some Ochre watercolor to get a nice yellow effect on the paper for the background.

For the second comp, I went with a more typewriter/stamp effect, but still using terms from the book. Four letters are picked out to spell 'Obey', but this second attempt definitely didn't come together as well.