The lone grand piano howls...

So, even though this is a 95% digital piece, i decided to show a little into the process.

After i made a clean pencil drawing and scanned it in, i overlaid a stock texture over it (which i dont always do, but since this image had so many large areas of color, i figured it would bring it all together). After i did that, i went in and proceeded to fill in blocks of color for each area. After that, i rendered and added text.

Rabbit's foot

I did this in a 3 hour session in class. It's colored pencils on BFK Rives over a few acrylic washes.

Introviewed

The kind people at Guardian of Bravery Magazine just did an interview on me, check it out HERE.


in other news, im working like a fiend this weekend on new stuff. Heres a peek at one of them. Its a piano howling at the moon. More very soon!

SOI Show

So i found out an hour ago that 2 of my pieces got into the 2010 Society of Illustrators Student show and i am SO happy! Link is HERE It is a HUGE honor to be mentioned with so many big names. :]

Flambeau

phew! A weekend's worth of work. Done in acrylic washes and colored pencil (with a little digital touch-ups on the moth, shhhhh...)

based on the quote "A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust. " -James Stephens








to divulge a little more, I'd like to say i learned more about this image while doing it. My initial thoughts where making the knight represent thought, the broom the spade, and the moth the sword, but as i developed the image, I came to the realization the the moth was in fact the thought, attracted to the flame in the knight, who represented the sword himself, while the flaming broom was the spade/tool. Each could not exist without the other.

a little deep for me, ha, but i really enjoyed doing it!

Perfume

A design for a poster for the movie Perfume. I thought the movie was pretty good, but i mainly chose it because of how strong the concept could be. Done in charcoal and digital

busy busy

Sorry about the lack of updates peeps! ive been working on 7 illustrations these past two weeks (because for some reasons all my projects like to come in waves?) Anyways, between now and next weekend ill be posting the work ive been up to so stay on the lookout.

for now, here is an image i did for Nigeria, 1 of 5 countries i had to depict culturally in some fashion. I did clothing. I will post the others soon!