Jr. Illustration

Assorted pieces for Junior Illustration - The first is a matching T-shirt and poster set for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

This piece was an 11 by 20 (newspaper-sized) advertisement for Converse. I chose specifically to promote their line of leather chuck taylor shoes. 

Everybody's Lookin' For Something

To those for you who regularly check this blog - sorry for the lack of posts, I've had a crazy busy month (apparently. It doesn't feel like its been that long since I last posted.) Since there's rather a lot for me to post, I'm gonna break it into a few posts by class. This is what I've been up to in Lifestyles! The first two pieces are from an assignment that was to make pieces that incorporated an actual photograph or scan of an accessory. I chose all Alexander McQueen pieces and incorporated them into an icy alien amazon battle scene. These are gouache + digital. 

And also more dolls! All three of these guys are wearing stuff from the Versace for H&M collection which comes out next week.

Fashion + Movies

Style dolls for the last two weeks  - I've been having a lot of fun discovering new designers to dress them in.

Also, last week for my Jr. Illustration class, we had to re-design a movie poster from a list of "classic" movies given to us my our teacher. I chose to do Blade Runner - I'm pretty happy with the result, I tried a couple of new techniques when I was coloring this, and I think the majority of them were really successful. It was a really fun project to work on, even if it prevented me from sleeping for most of the week. 

Typography Jam

I hope I don't bore too many of you with this, but I always appreciate some good typography, and I've been pretty pleased with the work I've been making for my type 1 class. So here's a compilation of almost every project we've done for the class so far. 

Amen Fashion

A collective dump of nearly everything I've done for my Lifestyle illustration class so far this semester. Exhibit A) Style Dolls, which are essentially "paper" (or in this case, digital) dolls which we dress/accessorize every week. Here they are naked:

And here they are dressed for the first week:

I believe the main designers are Ralph Lauren, D&G and Yves St Laurent, with some mixed for the shoes and acessories.

This is a portion from the first project we did, which was to choose an environment and then select outfits that matched and create a piece with them - my environment was a freak show. There was actually a second piece with a mermaid in a tank, but I'm pretty unhappy with it, so you only get to see the one. 

The designers for this are Vivian Westwood (the jumpsuit) and Mugler. 

And then finally, my assignment for this week, which was a sequential piece for a two-page spread that displayed "a night out". I chose to utilize the 800+ photos I took this summer and do a night out in Kyoto, Japan. 

I have a great lust for those jeffrey campbell shoes I drew (the white ones). I really really really want them.

Sketchy Things

Just some sketchbook stuff I did before homework actually started and sort of ruined my life. Only a little bit. I'm thinking of revamping the blog layout again, if I ever get some time... expect projects to start flowing again soon!

Tiled Things

One of the first little arty things I did when I got home - made myself and then my sister some cute tile backgrounds for our computers.

So we have manta-rays for me (in assorted color combos).

 

And barn swallows for my sister.  I really liked making these - feel free to use if you have any inclination to, and hopefully I'll get around to making some more of them over the next few months.