Week 9

3 Image Goauche Montage- (re-do)

1st 3-img gouache

2nd 3-img gouache

Yeeaaaa! I think the re-do turned out much better. It certainly printed better. I still struggled with the face and trying to get a smooth consistency without it getting too gray. I think the modeling on the hair and facial features turned out well and more statue like. Een though the background turned out way more red than originally intended, the rabbit isn't blending in too much and I took the extra time to pickout some edges on the flowers. Overall I'm more happy with the second go-around :)

Week 9

PAS DES YEUX!!

(No Eyes)

Our assignment is to pick a world record (Guinness World Record) and illustrate, starting with 5 initial sketches, for a final 13x19 full bleed poster. The record I chose was the most tattooed person. After looking at some photos of full-body-tattooed people I wanted to focus my image on people getting odd places on their body tattooed, like inside of the mouth, eyes, etc. I was also considering where the text would fit on the poster. Finally I started to think about the actual most tattooed man and how his image kind of reminds me of aboriginal tribal tattoos; considering the style of tattooed on his chest and torso and the darkened of his now covered skin.

Week 8

Conversation: Marker Comps





















ALLLLrighty! More marker comps. So Moving on from the initial pencil composition, I wanted a flat color palette. I moved the goat in more to overlap the pot a bit; and also changed the steam to a more steeping sort of mood; as well as working on the goat's expression to show a sense of worry. After he intial marker comp, I added a rope and stake to resolve the questions of why the goat was on a leash and who was holding him, and to also relieve the tension of which direction thegoat was going. I also muted the colors in the background so it wouldn't take up so much focus.

Week 8

Conversation: Character Development





















Here are some Looney Toons images I am looking at for character and environment development. The backgrounds are more flat and general shapes when the scene is outdoors. Sometimes detailed to give the illusion of depth.

Week 8

Conversation: Pencil sketch




















Voilà! I present the tightened version of my initial conversation sketches. So I made the pot sit in a ring of stones to add to the outdoor feel, and also the trees. I didn't want to make them too detailed to imply depth of field. Some of the comments I received was to make the face of the goat more expressive, and there was also some confusion about whether it was a deer or goat. Hopefully moving to color will sort out some of the recognition issues. I am also rethinking how I did the stem from the pot. A less fluffy and more slender rising steam would probably serve my cartoon style better.

Week 7: Midterm

Portfolio

This first image is one of our earlier watercolors. It's still one of my favorite pieces from this class because I was able to achieve the impression of detail without tightening up my painting method, which is one of the advantages to using watercolor. If I were to do anything different, it would be to add a little more color variation in the trees to add a little more depth.

My first gouache illustration! This illustration was very successful for my limited knowledge of gouache medium. I am particularly proud of how the face and skin turned out. I also liked being able to use it as a sort of watercolor, to mix and blend. If I were to do anything different, it would be to resolve the background a little more, adding in more rocks and getting a smoother transition. Also the feet could be completed a little more to give the impression of being under the water.

This piece is from our memory illustration project. It looks fairly simple, but I chose to include it because it took a lot of sketching and re-drawing to get to this point being that I am not very cartoon-inclined. So I was actually happy to be able to reduce an image of my brother to this outlined drawing. I still had to work a lot with the face using a gouache pick-out method. If I were to do anything different I would probably add in line variations and clean up the background.

The X-ACTO knife: The goal of this project was to create a realistic product illustration. In honesty I would completely re-do this project to liven it up and also to tighten up the text. I do however, think it was a great challenge to my re-productive ability in illustration. The most successful part of this piece would have to be the transitions and variations in the gray of the knife.

The 3-image gouache montage! This image took a lot of time! There are some refinement issues that I would change, but I think this project was definitely a learning experience. The stages of marker-comping and working out variations was a great help. It's great to have a new perspective on creativity and meshing of images that wouldn't normally be related to one another. I learned a lot about composition, both in drawing and color by working on this piece.

Week 7

3 Image Gouache Montage

Here is my final painted and scanned 10 x 14 inch gouache montage. I has some difficulty painting the face and I restarted quite a few times. I mostly used a pick out method, so lots of layering paint and then picking out highlights. It also printed a lot darker, so I would like to brighten up and take away some of the contrast. If I were to do anything different I would start off with a thinker layer of gouache with a lighter gray color in the face vs yellow, and picked out more of the flowers and bunny. Also I could work on smoother transitions with the hair. I am happy with the background and the drawing is still intact so yeaa!

Week 7

Conversation Piece

This assignment is to create an illustration of an over-heard conversation by strangers. It has to be in a square format (final to be 10 in x 10 in). Here are the initial 3x3 thumbnail sketches (6 out of 10 shown) from which one compositional idea was chosen for us to develop. I think I definitely want to do an unrealistic cartoon, comparable to the 1960s Looney Toons style with flat color and more animated facial expressions.

Week 6

Gouache Montage





























































Oh the marker comps!!! These were done on 5 x 7 inched marker paper and flush mounted. Well this is my first time using prisma color markers to mock up a painting. All in all I think it saved me a lot of wasted time in making compositional and color decisions. In the end I ended up doing a combination of elements from the first three comps. I think the drawing on the face progressively got more and more effeminate and distorted. I took the face from composition 1, the flowers from composition 2, and the background from composition 3. Choosing a color for the bunny was a challenge because I didn't want it to be too close to the color of the bust. I settled on brown... Ready to paint!


































































When I started to compose the images I wanted the bust to be prominent and almost inquisitive, and the bunny to be oddly positioned and the flowers as a more random decorative element. I think I started to focus too much on the detail in the flower stems rather than the blooms. I do find the buds to be a playful element in the piece. The second sketch above has some suggestions for compositional placement to achieve my goals of creating a focal point in the bust.

The assignment is to create a 10x14 gouache montage of three un-related images, focusing on composition. So my approach was to search the word "image" on Google to generate some random subjects. I found a cool computer animation that resembled a Grecian marble statue. The next image I got was a bunny and then some tropical flowers. I think they still somewhat relate to each other in an interesting way, once I started to compose them I realized that they were all objects/ things that can be found in a garden.... huh huh think about it!

Week 5

Cartooning: DMV skeleton

So here is my skeleton cartoon, developed and inked. I think it may have been more successful if the skeletons were closer together and there were more of them, but you still get the idea. I tried to get across the various stages of decay by adding hair on the younger figures and then progressively add more skin (see belly button indicator). Overall though I think it works out fine. I did have to deal with some perspective issues while trying to resolve the composition. Hopefully the whole concept will come together more once I add color!