Cheesy

Final

yeah... so the final cheesy airbrush illustration was not the most successful project. I think it turned out ok considering. I had some issues with the contact paper. When I cut out the shapes I also ended up cutting into the paper of the board; that in conjunction with my heavy handed wet airbrushing there was a lot of bleeding. The overspray from the baby cloth tarnished the white on the stork. I should have remasked. The color on the baby's face turned out well, but then it meshed into the background. After peeling off the mask, it ripped several patches in the piece, which I was able to fix in Photoshop. Well I guess you learn more from failure: don't spray to much pigment at a time, take more care in cutting the mask, and re-mask to preserve color!!!!

Sound Illustration

Color/ Marker Comp

My color comp of the lawnmower running over a branch! I'll definitely have to reconsider some compositional issues. Some of the comments I got were that the sound wasn't coming across very well. It could also be mistaken that the lawnmower hasn't yet gone over the branch which would defeat the purpose of it making a sound. I do like the perspective of the composition, but it may have been more indicative of sound to compose it in a way that seemed like the mower was coming towards the viewer.... hmm sounds like more complications. I'm going to try and indicate some sort of vibration, maybe smoke or something being exhausted from the mower. Also someone suggested that adding a human shadow would help to position the person. We shall See!!!!

Sound Illustration

Pencil Composition

I did two pencil comps for the sound illustration. In the first one I tried a different perspective on the hands pushing the lawn-mover, but the composition doesn't quite fill the whole page. The second is of the same perspective used in the original sketch with the majority of the person's figure cropped out. Rusty suggests I use the first sketch and orient the composition horizontally. I'm sure that'll solve the problem.

Sound Illustration

Sketches

These are my sketches for the sound illustration. I thought of things that people could quickly associate a sound to. The creaking of wood (elephant) to the sound of tap shoes and a tree trunk breaking. I enjoyed the lawn mower sketch and the added element of the twig being caught in the motor. I may crop out the guy listening to music in the next stage because I think it distracts from the lawn mower.

MO Postcard

FINAL

Here is my final version of the abandoned ski lift for the Missouri Postcard. The method I used was watercolor. I think the rust turned out well. The shades in the snow was a little difficult to figure out so I went and looked at some watercolor of snow landscape. Who k new? - SO many shades of white haha Rusty. I also toned down the colors in the background and added tree trucks to the landscape. All-in-all i think the colors turned out the way I wanted them to, so, am happy with it. I liked working on a small scale for a change.

MO Postcard

Color Comp

Here are some color compositions I did for the Mo Postcard. I wanted the background to have a snowy landscape, so there are little blades of grass shooting up. I think on such a small scale, I do not want to tackle doing snow on branches like in the second sketch. In the first sketch I used prisma color markers and on the second I used a combination of markers (for the background) and prisma color pencils for the ski lift. I think the rust turned out better on the second ski lift.

MO Postcard

Sketches

The assignment was to come up with artwork for a postcard about Missouri, based on what Missouri said to us. I immediately thought about the major landmarks, such as the Miss. River, the farm landscapes, and then the Metropolitan cities, Kansas City and St. Louis. Thinking of St. Louis I thought about how it was the Gateway city, and tried to convey the idea of a melding of cultures, a more urban figure with a natural and more rural landscape; hence the cowboy and the building, as well as the sketch of the Metro in St. Louis. Essentially, neither of those ideas were working. I finally ended with a sketch of an abandoned ski lift, which is personal to me because of the memories I share with my friends and the connection to the experiences I have had in Missouri.

Airbrush

Airbrush: Practice & Banana

So we have been practicing with air-brushing. The first image is of my first time practicing with airbrush, freehand lines at first and ten spheres using a template. The banana was our first assignment using frisket masking. I think it turned out ok. There was some spreading under the frisket because my pigment was too wet. Also, doing the dark areas first was in best interest but I fell the lighter color over it dulled the intensity of the darker colors. I also had some issues with using extra sticky frisket because it peeled of some of the color. next time I think I will paste the frisket on the board and then carve out the shapes vs carving the frisket as a whole and then attempting to paste it on the board.

Cheesy Color Comp

Stork and Baby



































































The assignment was develop a cheesy image to airbrush, since apparently most airbrushed items are "cheesy". While thinking about all of the cheesy cartoons and figures that I could paint. I thought about cheesy concepts in general, like the stork delivering a baby. So I found some images and crafted them together. I decided the easy method for airbrushing later, would be to do the color comp in segments. The stork was easier but I already fore-see challenges with with baby skin. We shall see, looking forward to it and all the frisket. I also have some liquid frisket that might help with the smaller details.

FINAL Convo

Final Convo: Photoshop




















For my final conversation piece (goat stew) I worked in with line drawing and coloring in Photoshop. I struggled a but with the coloring because there was a little anti-aliasing around the line drawing. In hind-sight, it would have been helpful to use the channels function to get rid of it and maintain a clean line. Since the method of cartoon I was using was with flat color it seemed like an easy task to color it in but to show depth and shadows I used tints and opacity of the same color. When I flattened the images, the white background really helped to punch up the color. I'm ok with the turn out but if I were to do it over I would have spent more time on the shading as well as cleaning up the anti-aliasing.

World Record

World record: Tight Pencil Comp





















So here are my pencil comps for the most tattooed man record. I really wanted to focus on the face and try to create an illusion with the texture of the tattooed skin. With the first sketch I wanted to focus on the attitude of the individual so I showed a full head shot. I was thinking of putting the information on the tongue. On the second sketch I wanted to focus on the tattooed allusion more by making the face itself a tattoo. The idea was to have the most tattooed man with tattoos around him. The execution of these ideas.... um failed! So I changed my idea to doing the Fastest man in the world record!!!





















I wanted to go with the idea of breaking the sound barrier, so he's placed in a sort of speed bubble and i used lines (which will be in color) to indicate his fast movement. Since the fastest man in the world is Jamaican (Go JA!) runner, Usain Bolt i wanted to keep the idea of a track runner, hence the outfit. I also didn't want to play off of the whole, faster than a Lightening Bolt idea because it's been so over done.

World record

Development and Color Comp




















Here are some images I looked at for inspiration and composition. The image of Flash was really helpful in getting an idea of fast movement in terms of the color striping. The other image I used to get the pose of the runner.













These are my color compositions of the runner. I really don't like the stark contrasts with the reddish orange color and the dark background I want. It was suggested that I play the movement stripes off of the green of the running uniform. I also added the speeding bullet at the top of the second sketch to add a greater idea of the speed. I used the prisma-color markers to make light marks so that the striping would not be so blunt and flat. I also used a slightly different tint of the background color for the speed bubble, as Rusty suggested. I think it worked out a lot better, but I have been struggling with this assignment. I think it should translate a lot better with gouache.