The Station

So this illustration is a poster for a dance production that one of my roomates is in. The director approached my class with the synopsis and his thoughts on what he wanted, and heres what I came up with. Basically its about a train station and the main character can predict the future. oh and its based in the 50's.

Im usually pretty terrible with type and fitting it into my images, but this one turned out alright.
Done in 2 days, charcoal and chalk on stonehenge (looooooove!) paper, 11 x 17 inches

One more illustration for finals that ill be finishing up tonight and then... SPRING BREAK. ahhhhh. feels good. i just need to get over this cold. blegh.

Damka

Im sick and its finals week. ugh. perfect combination.

Anyways, i just finished a piece for a show my class is having (which ill post pics of later from the reception) and i am pretty happy with it considering i had to finish it in 3 days because i accidentally screwed up another painting which is actually on the BACK of the paper...

Its acrylic and colored pencil on toned paper. Im trying to loosen my drawings, because they get too tight all the time, which makes them look too calculated. so in this case i did 0 planning and just dove in. Im really happy with it, but i cant help but think that it turned out the way it did with some luck involved. ha, i wish i could just blow prelims off all the time! ohh welll

In the past 4 days i havent slept too much, so im not entirely sure if this post will make sense in the morning, but to hell with it...

The last picture is to show the toll it took on my hands after working for 14 hours straight. notice the 2 blisters beginning to form. hooray.

Finals Begin

Well the title of this post pretty much explains why i havent been able to post much this week. 3 Illustrations are due next week and i have only started one of them, so i will be putting them up once i have the time. GET EXCIIIITED. ha, i know i am. not.

well, kinda...

For now, heres one i did for a mock natural history museum ad for "Uncovering the past"
I wasnt entirely happy with the finish, but i was a little rushed :/

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. :]