Kayla Cline

2011-12-04T17:35:00.001-08:00

I'm gonna have a hard time finishing this one.

Sailor Venus

2011-11-21T04:31:00.000-08:00

Some Recent Doodles

2011-11-16T18:25:00.000-08:00

Lyra Silvertongue from the His Dark Materials Trilogy, Olive my corgi, my bed and a corgi!

MemTCR Logo

2011-07-27T19:53:00.000-07:00

So, I've teamed up with Middle Tennessee Corgi Rescue to help adopt out and foster corgis and corgi mixes in the Memphis area! What that entails is a LOT of internet networking and the occasional younger foster that will get along with Mason. I used Mason, my cardigan welsh corgi, and Hiro, a pembroke welsh corgi, in the logo--Hiro is Shannon's, and she is the other half of the Memphis branch. She handles transportation and, if we ever get any, inquiries. Website is located HERE. If anyone in the Memphis area is interested in a corgi/corgi mix, just check out that site or e-mail me!

2011-06-26T19:00:00.000-07:00

I have a problem.

2011-06-20T09:21:00.000-07:00

Portfolio

2011-04-28T20:12:00.000-07:00

CLAW grant

2011-04-22T09:25:00.000-07:00

Slag Valley got me a grant from The CLAW so I'll be making tshirts and books this summer. Look for them soon. :)

BFA Handkerchiefs

2011-04-17T21:01:00.001-07:00

I don't think I've posted a preview of my BFA yet. It goes up the 29th, and no photos can be taken till then because it's 12 feet tall and can't be hung anywhere except the school gallery. So...here's one of the three heads on a handkerchief. Ta da!

WIP-Spoilers!!!

2011-02-28T14:57:00.000-08:00

For a promotional post card and print for Slag Valley. Tardigrades to the right not included.

Memphis Flyer

2011-02-21T13:04:00.001-08:00

CHECK IT OUT! Or if you're in Memphis, go get one. It's free and stuff.

Slag Valley Thus Far

2011-02-19T19:17:00.000-08:00

In case you're missing it. Slag Valley updates Tuesdays.

Triptych

2011-02-10T20:03:00.001-08:00

Slag Valley online and MONSTERS

2011-02-10T15:04:00.000-08:00

Slag Valley is up and the first 10 pages are available to read. The interface is still clunky but I'm working on it! In the meantime...I used to sew a lot of plush things in middle school-high school and decided to make my mailable objects to companies little monsters. The first is a baby Manticore...he's kind of a tester to see how this will work. Made out of two Smoothie King tshirts from my friend, Brittany Seiveno. I'm thinking of making a ton of them in my Sculpture class this semester and selling them or taking commissions for them. Next I'm doing a Criosphinx/cat/ram hybrid dude.

coming soon...

2011-01-22T12:39:00.001-08:00

Coming soon...

Untitled Comic

2010-12-10T18:25:00.000-08:00

Core Portfolio In Progress

2010-12-02T13:03:00.000-08:00

Here are the images I've chose so far for my Core Portfolio.

Folk Bloodbath

2010-11-18T15:10:00.000-08:00

Folk Bloodbath Preview in COLOR

2010-11-15T11:18:00.000-08:00

Comic Preview

2010-11-13T20:17:00.001-08:00

Two random pages~

Folk Bloodbath Unedited Inks

2010-11-09T00:36:00.001-08:00

NPDA

2010-11-04T18:23:00.001-07:00

Needs text and a designers treatment, and who knows if this is what we'll use, this is just me having tons of fun. I really really like it though. Especially that bunny on the back. The big WALL O TEXT would go in the frame on the back there, and the mini wall o text would go under the carousel on the front.

New Stuff

2010-11-01T13:31:00.000-07:00

Here's some stuff from my sketchbook and a preview for my Folk Bloodbath illustrations.

Comic Preview

2010-10-27T11:49:00.000-07:00

Here is a preview of the first page of my comic for this semester. It's in progress...needs more lineart and a lot of cleaning up but you get the idea.

Olive's Circus

2010-10-18T16:10:00.000-07:00

Boar Woman

2010-10-16T17:49:00.001-07:00

For someone~

Visual Essay 1

2010-10-15T12:46:00.000-07:00

Visual Essay 1...this I turned in today, but I'm going to work on it more for Friday.

Sketchbook Day 1: Birds and Berries

2010-10-12T19:46:00.000-07:00

Some NPDA Comp Progress

2010-10-11T22:54:00.000-07:00

Text and design is courtesy of the fabulous graphic designer, Meredith Wells. I think she did a great job with all of them, I love the forest one it looks like a print, and I love what she did with the shadows on the carousel one. It really makes it pop!

RA RA BLAH BLAH BLAH

2010-10-10T20:53:00.000-07:00

"Everybody drink a lotta whiskey and wine." -Lady Gaga

Quick NPDA Comp Pre-Design

2010-10-09T13:59:00.000-07:00

We have to have 5 comps for Tuesday for the NPDA broadside, and I drew this up quick to send to my designer to have text put on it to show...I like how it came out even if it was drawn quickly.

"Olive's Circus" pages 1-4

2010-10-06T16:26:00.001-07:00

Pages 3-4 are still in progress...I'm playing with the "CIRCUS" sign, but this is the general idea. 1 and 2 are single pages and 3 and 4 combine to form a spread.

Board Book Progress

2010-10-04T16:17:00.001-07:00

More progress. I'm trying to knock back the textures, it's a problem I keep having...any suggestions?

Board Book

2010-10-03T20:09:00.000-07:00

SHCC: Nightwing

2010-10-01T21:31:00.000-07:00

Nightwing redesign with a musical twist for SHCC. Went for a John Baizley/Baroness album cover reference with my music theme. Complete with two close up shots which I like as much as the zoomed out resized image.

I feel like it ended up looking like my own art with a slight Baizley twist in the shading and use of wheat/bird skulls/oozing eyes.

Visual Essay 1

2010-09-24T08:14:00.000-07:00

I'm going to write a bit about my idea behind my Visual Essay in Illustration. This post will get pretty personal, but I feel it's necessary to explain my intended results, and gather all of the information I have accumulated in my experience with the disease.

My proposal is as follows: I am trying to convey the effects of having Rheumatoid Arthritis on daily life. I'm taking specific moments that resonate in my life so far that have particularly been cumbersome, and turning them into Illustrations that try and show that dispute between what is natural, what is not, and the pain/despair/hopelessness encountered with it.

One thing that needs to be known about the disease is that it is pretty much a lifelong thing. It is a strange condition where a person's immune system begins attacking itself, causing the joints (and organs) to inflame and start to possibly deteriorate if not kept in check.

It is not treatable, only manageable, and another natural/unnatural element behind it (besides something as natural as the immune system acting in an unnatural manner) is the fact one has to be heavily medicated to appear/feel remotely normal. This can also cause many more side effects creating discomfort.

On a personal level, I am taking up to 5 650 mg Darvocet tablets a day for pain, 2 5mg Prednisone (steroid) tablets a day to keep the inflammation at a manageable level to where I can function/move around, and 8 2.5mg (or so, I don't have the bottle on me) tablets of Methotrexate, which is intended to be the drug that (once a proper dosage is figured out) will put my Rheumatoid Arthritis under control to a point where I won't have to take the first two drugs to feel normal.

Another problem with this is that the Methotrexate isn't working, and the first drug I took, Hydroxychloroquine did not work either. Instead, the first one caused me to drop about 40 pounds in the period of less than a month due to how sick it made me. The Methotrexate seems to be doing the same, causing me to sleep up to 20 hours Friday night, Saturday night and sometimes even Sunday night due to the fact my body gets extremely exhausted from processing the medication. If these 8 tablets (already increased from 2 to 6 to 8 from lack of success) do not work, I may possibly have to start giving myself weekly injections to help it along, as my Rheumatologist doesn't want me to try another drug yet (since the side effects of the other two available drugs are even worse than the previous two I have tried).

Aside from the struggle with pain and general function that is evident by simply clicking the first wikipedia link, it is also just hard to function mentally with this some days. I have, for the most part, gotten over the unfairness of this diagnosis and the fact that I will inevitably live with it for the rest of my life (pending some "miracle"). It is still a problem, however, that this extremely negative part of my life can overtake all of the positive things going on. Sometimes, when I can't turn a doorknob or open a bottle, I get extremely depressed and feel helpless and dependent on those around me.

I'm hoping that I can remain positive and keep working on my artwork, and that the negativity of this experience doesn't drag me down. I've been doing well so far. I tend to schedule my work schedule around when I know I will be in pain (mornings, half the days on weekends) and I continue to get my work done on time, and well. I've even risked applying for a job on the weekends.

This all leads up to the big problem of having this disease: having to limit what I'm doing. I'm not able to exercise, walk long distances, stand for long periods of time, or even stay in one position (be it sitting, laying down a certain way, etc) for a long time without experiencing pain or swelling. I have had to learn to regulate my day. A good explanation of this experience is located here. It is a lengthy story by a woman who has Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, which is a similar disease to Rheumatoid Arthritis in how it effects the body and how the pain experienced is not always visible to those around a person diagnosed with it. She tells about how she has to schedule her day around the disease by relating it to having a handful of spoons, and how each activity chosen to participate in requires one (or several, depending) spoons to accomplish, and when you run out your day is done and your body is exhausted/unable to perform.

Overall, I'm hoping to use the previous method of displaying a human form disfigured in subtle ways intertwined with natural imagery to show this duality of the interplay of the natural becoming unnatural and the unnatural being natural to certain people, as well as the overall struggle of dealing with this disease.

I'm hoping to accomplish these images traditionally on illustration board in a similar manner to my previous "What's Missing" illustration. These need to be detailed, engaging, and filled with subtle hints to the body falling apart. The viewer needs to be able to interact with the body and search for these irregularities to convey how it is not an obvious disease, but more of a silent constant in a person's life.

OSW Finals

2010-09-19T22:02:00.000-07:00

Nova

2010-09-19T13:23:00.000-07:00

A collaboration Nova redesign by Justin Wheeler and myself for SHCC

2010-09-15T16:42:00.000-07:00

A new direction with my art.

Still working

2010-09-14T16:45:00.001-07:00

I've been really down on myself artistically lately. I've been trying new things and while they've been enlightening and I've learned from them, they've caused a lot of frustration and made me feel pretty inadequate.

More Progress...

2010-09-13T16:18:00.000-07:00

More progress on my childrens book illustrations. Any advice for final direction? I'm going to add some streamers/furniture in the window to the one where she's in the window and some people to the ballroom in the elongated one.

Still Working...

2010-09-12T15:09:00.000-07:00

I've started the second one now...I'm hoping to have all three worked out pretty well before Monday so I can get feedback and finish them up/print them Tuesday.

Children's Book 1/3 Images In Progress

2010-09-11T22:41:00.001-07:00

In my Children's Book class we're picking 1 of 3 stories to do 3 illustrations from. I picked one called, I think, "On Swan's Wings" or something to that effect...here's my first image in progress. I decided to do this cut paper appearing method I've been dying to try (minimal linework used) with textures since it looks awesome, is so far really fun to do, and will give me good results in a shorter amount of time than the thin lined drawing with microns I'm doing in Illustration 5. (The 3 full color images are due this coming Wednesday).

"What's Missing" Progress Shot #2

2010-09-07T20:09:00.001-07:00

Debating if I should fill in the framing branches with black...Sorry that this is hard to see. It will be scanned when it's finished.

"What's Missing" In Progress

2010-09-06T20:53:00.001-07:00

I think I'm about 5-8 hours in...using only a .005 micron and 01 micron...it's hard to tell all the detail with my crappy phone camera, but trust me...there's a lot.

New stuff!!

2010-09-04T21:58:00.000-07:00

Here's a doodle from my sketchbook where I was practicing inking with a Winsor Newton series 7 and a sketch for my "What's Missing" piece in Illustration 5.

Illustration 5 Post #6

2010-09-02T19:10:00.000-07:00

1. What sort of an illustrator are you?
One that tries to draw entirely from my imagination and tries to focus on the whimsical, fantastical and brutal as much as possible.

2. What sort of career do you want to have?
I want to be a concept artist for just about anything, but preferrably video games. I also would like to do illustrations and graphic novels on the side.

3. Does your present body of work reflect your aspirations? Could it do so more strongly?
For the most part I feel like it does. I could probably use a few more plainly brutal and detailed images...something that shows the amount of DETAIL I can do, which I like to do but often don't have the time to do finished images of with schoolwork. I feel like I really like brutal imagery, but I fall back on fantastic/childish/friendly work for my schoolwork since it is a faster way to produce something that still is high in quality.

4. List ten images/themes/techniques/subjects/formats that your portfolio needs in order to become more in line with your aspirations.
-Brutality
-Detail
-Attention to detailed linework
-Watercolor
-Painting
-Graphic
-Contrast
-Atmospheric elements
-Spooky/less happy and quirky
-Metal

Illustration 5 Post #5

2010-09-01T22:26:00.001-07:00

I apologize in advance for my post being slightly late...blame Justin not taking me home and playing pool instead. Seriously. Elliot was there.

AHEM.

1. If you had to spend the rest of your life illustrating one book, what would it be? Why?
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. They're my favorite books in the whole world, and if you read them you would know how heavy they are in imagery and opportunities to illustrate dynamic images.

2. If you could go apprentice with any two artists in the history of the world, who would they be?
James Jean and Florian Bertmer. They are two of my favorite artists and I admire their painting skills and lineart.

3. If you were banned from the art world and could have any career, what would it be?
I'd be a Crime Scene Investigator, because that was my other career option and I chose Illustration instead.

4. A) I would do a series of fancy lady and animal paintings on wood. I would do five, and split them up evenly throughout the month.
B) I would do a graphic novel with lineart inked traditionally and finished digitally that would include several short stories, one per month.
C) I would do a long graphic novel executed the same way as the series of short stories.

Illustration 5 Post #4

2010-08-31T16:51:00.001-07:00

1. List ten illustrators whose work you admire, or whose career you would like to emulate.

-Florian Bertmer-

-Kentaro Miura-

-John Baizley-

-Bryan Lee O'Malley-

-Lois van Baarle-

-Chris Sanders-

-Alphonse Mucha-

-Shane Prigmore-

-Scott C.-

-Vera Brosgol-

2. Who are their clients? What sort of work do those clients look for?
Video game concept artist-needers, people needing advertisements, character designs for movies or games, comic book authors needing artists, bands needing t-shirt designs/album covers...

3. Find at least 10 magazines that you think you could work for. Record the names of the art director and any assistant art directors listed, and their contact information.
Some of the magazines listed don't necesarilly show a lot of artwork, but are filled with content I feel like I would enjoy illustrating.
-Game Informer-
(Andy McNamara)
-PlayStation Magazine-
(Gary Steinman, Ken Bousquet)
-Spin Magazine-
(Ian Robinson)
-Wizard Magazine-
(?)
-Time-

4.If you were starting your own magazine and your livelihood depended on it selling well and your sanity depended on it being something you wanted to spend all your time on, what would it be? What sorts of writers and artists would you hire? What subject matter would it deal with? How would you want it to look?
I would want to do a magazine on video games or comic books, like many of the magazines I listed above. I don't really read magazines, so I had a hard time coming up with 10 I would like to participate in...it is definitely an industry I'd like to work with, but I don't really have any specific preferences...a job is a job. I think I'd put a little bit of myself into any subject I was given to illustrate and have fun with it no matter what it was...or at least I'd try to. I'd like to think my artwork would appeal to buyers at bookstores and they'd want to pick up whatever I'm making based on its visual appeal...no matter what the interior holds. That's how I look at magazines--if the cover is interesting then I'll pick it up, no matter what the title is or what its about. If I'm promised a really good visual experience, I think it's worth it.

5. List ten non-magazine clients you'd like to work with. Why are these dream clients?
-Pixar-
Because I want to do character design for movies, especially kid friendly ones.
-Dreamworks-
For the same reason...
-Disney-
Same...
-Blizzard-
To do concept art for video games that I enjoy, like World of Warcraft...
-Valve-
Same as with Blizzard, more video game concept art and character design...
-Dark Horse Comics-
So I could do comic books.
-Marvel-
Same...
-DC-
Same...
-Square-Enix-
Another video game one, but this one would be pretty impossible.

Illustration 5 Post #3

2010-08-30T13:33:00.000-07:00

1. Describe your typical creative process, from getting an assignment to finished piece.

I don't think I have an explicit creative process. I typically just doodle until something comes out that I like, and then finish it and ink it. For class projects, I'll do a few thumbnails (or the required amount of thumbnails) and then choose the best and finish the image. I don't plan too much, I try to go with whatever comes to mind and not look up much reference and I try not to draw ideas from other artists while I'm working.

2. Describe what you think your creative process should be like.

I probably should plan more with my personal pieces, and even more for my schoolwork. More thumbnails, more sketching, more thinking in general would be a good idea for my work. I think it would benefit from me spending more time thinking what the finished product will be rather than taking it second by second and developing the image as I go. (Sometimes I get really good results that way, but I think I would get even better if I thought it completely out beforehand.)

3. Research and describe a professional creator's creative process.

My favorite artist right now is Kentaro Miura. An interview with him is located here. He seems to have a process of not really knowing where he wants to end up as well, and kind of takes his ideas one step at a time to get to his goal. (Much like I try to do). He also, however, mixes this spontaneity with a lot of research. He uses a lot of picture reference for his ink drawings and draws from western ideas of fantasy for his manga. Berserk, which is well thought out and very grounded storywise required a lot of reference from western cultures, and lots of research from his side.

Illustration 5 Post #2

2010-08-29T13:35:00.000-07:00

1. Of all the work that you've done, what is your favorite piece?

Why do you like it?
I like it because of the line quality, the concept, and the mouth! I don't know, it was a really good combination of a lot of things that I really like, so I still love it to this day and I want to redraw it and make a shirt out of it and do so much with it! I even based my personal site in Web Design 1 after it.

2. What piece do others like the most?

I feel like I got a lot of positive responses to this piece.
Do you agree?
Yeah, I really like that one. I like the textures, how the colors worked with the textures, the concept, and the shaky line quality I got from erasing away at the linework.

3. What piece surprised you the most?
Like Alex said, I don't really understand this question. I don't feel like my own artwork can SURPRISE me, because I planned it out and created it. One that I am particularly proud of and satisfied with the results of and learned a lot from in retrospect is my entire "Eska" comic from last semester.

4. Choose five doodles or sketches that you like as much as any of your finished work.

Illustration 5 Post #1

2010-08-28T16:06:00.000-07:00

1. What media do you like working in?
I like working in ink mostly. I'll sketch something and ink it with either microns or a brush and ink. I'm still getting the hang of digital work but I also like working in photoshop. I also like painting, but I'm not very good at it. (Acryllics).

2. What media do you hate working in? Why?
I don't think there's anything I "hate" working in, I'm pretty much willing to give anything a try...but that doesn't necessarily mean I'll be good at it.

3. What media would you like to try, but haven't?
Oils and gouache. I've seen people do a lot of really awesome artwork with both of those but I've never tried either.

4. List 3 non-Illustration classes that have influenced you and/or your work positively.
Life Drawing helped me with human forms and focusing on the fact they have mass and movement. Art of Mexico influenced me a lot because I REALLY liked the imagery and drew from it a lot when drawing and designing monsters. I can't really think of a third, but I can tell Text and Image is going to influence me creatively. One of the stories I'm writing for it I've already drawn a lot of illustrations based on.

5. How has the work of your peers influenced you and your work?
I feel like everyone else's work challenges me to try harder and get better...for example, Alex and Marie's paintings (digitally and traditionally respectively) encourage me to try and paint more. I think the friendly competitive nature in classes between the students really helps everyone's work, as well as the opinions and helpful comments.

6. What sort of subject matter do you like to create work about?
I like whimsical and fantastical subjects. Children going on magical adventures, monsters and mythological beasts, etc. I also like brutal excessive artwork like on album covers. (Some of my FAVORITES are Baroness album covers, as seen below:)

That album cover also includes decorative elements and fancy ladies, which I also like to create work of.

7. What sort of subject matter do you like to read about?
I like fantasy novels like His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman and ANYTHING by Diana Wynne Jones. I also like autobiographies and anything in general about peoples lives and the things they've experienced and grown from. (I read Dolly Parton's this summer).

8. What kind of music do you like?
I like metal and indie music mostly, but I'm not too terribly picky. My favorite band of all time is GWAR. I also really enjoy Between the Buried and Me, Against Me!, Josh Ritter, Ryan Adams, Andrew Bird, Feist, Iron and Wine, mewithoutYou, The Smiths, Son of Aurelius, Job for a Cowboy, Electric Wizard, and many more...I like all the music I listen to because it appeals to me with its sound. Above all else though, I like songs that tell stories. A good example of that is ANYTHING at all by Josh Ritter:

I like songs that tell stories because I like to tell stories myself.

9. What non-art related interest/hobbies/skills do you have?
I play lots of video games. I like RPGs and MMORPGs like Final Fantasies and World of Warcraft as well as games like Gears of War, Left 4 Dead and Borderlands...I like being immersed in stories, and I love the different designs of characters and environments. I feel like video games are art.

10. What is something you like that nobody else likes?
I really doubt there is one thing I like that no one else in the whole world does, but I guess something I like that I get a lot of shit for is WoW. World of Warcraft gets a lot of negative opinions attached to it because of its general fanbase and people not having lives while playing it, which is a shame because it's REALLY AWESOME and I highly recommend it.

11. If you had the run of the world's museums, what three works of original art would you like to own??
I don't know if three original pieces I would like to own would necessarily be in museums...I prefer contemporary artists. BUT:

"Wave" by James Jean

Untitled sketchbook piece by Coey Kuhn

And I'd like to own pretty much anything created by Florian Bertmer (artist of the three-eyed wolf shirt.)

SHCC

2010-08-03T11:49:00.001-07:00

The Superhero Costume Coalition is growing and has been featured on Project Rooftop twice now! (Thanks to regular amazing contributor, Shane McDermott).

Please take a moment to check it out, I think you'll like what you see! And we're ALWAYS open to new contributors...the more the merrier!

photoshopoops

2010-07-31T23:16:00.001-07:00

Trying to get this certain effect...not quite there yet.

Daredevil

2010-07-31T21:19:00.001-07:00

I'm sad I didn't have time to color this...I had a little bit of color on it but I ended up discarding it in favor of lineart on a paper-y texture. I doubt I'll go back and color him, but such is life...I have commissions I need to get to.

Daredevil Redesign Preview

2010-07-28T20:22:00.000-07:00

This is all I'm givin you for now. You can enjoy my historically innacurate DD on Saturday, punks.

Artbook for Sale on Lulu

2010-07-21T14:43:00.000-07:00

If anyone wanted to buy my small-ish artbook, it's 10% off with the code "BEACHREAD305". Purchase it here. Thanks guys!

Catwomen over on Superhero Coco...

2010-07-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

I'm just pimpin' the Catwomen redesigns over at Superhero Coco because they are AMAZING and a couple of them are now my favorite artworks by the respective artists. Derrick Dent and Jemma Salume contributed this time around, and all of the regulars from the Wonder Woman redesign submitted as well.

If you have a moment, please take the time to stop by and leave a comment!

Valravn doodles

2010-07-17T21:55:00.001-07:00

Catwoman Redesign

2010-07-11T22:52:00.001-07:00

She a rollerderby girrrrl. Complete with kitty, which I believe is named Isis.

IF ANYONE ACTIVELY READS THIS THING...

2010-07-11T12:11:00.001-07:00

Check out The Superhero Costume Coalition!!!!! A lot of really awesome artists and friends of mine are doing weekly superhero redesigns. You should watch that blog, and give feedback!!!

My WW

2010-07-02T22:10:00.000-07:00

Oh snap! Also, minotaur head.

Wonder Woman

2010-06-30T15:40:00.000-07:00

Am I the only one who LIKES the new WW costume? Drew this today in a few hours for boredom purposes/I LIKE THE ROGUE JACKET SHE IS SPORTING OK. The jacket, wristletcuffies, leggings, booties, ALLOFIT.

Commission

2010-06-13T22:36:00.000-07:00

Took up some digital commissions, this is the first for a person online. Her characters...a little girl and a crazy wolfbeast. The girl's face creeps me out, but the character kind of looked pouty and strange and creepy in the reference images...and her hand came out wonky thanks to the weird overlay I tried of lineart. Ah well, it was definitely an experiment and I'm liking the results and plan to mess more with that 3d-esque feel. Plus, I like how the wolf came out.

Lineart Work in Progress

2010-05-31T18:41:00.000-07:00

Work in Progress

2010-05-30T18:45:00.000-07:00

I've obtained a new fascination with/rekindled my old love of Chinese Guardian/Foo Lions and am working on this in my free time. Started out as me trying to throw out ideas for my tattoo, but I think I want my next tattoo to be more graphic/stark black and white/notsketchy and only of the Foo Lion.

Album preview

2010-05-29T12:11:00.001-07:00

Livejournal

2010-05-24T22:48:00.000-07:00

For those who have a livejournal, I just did a new layout for mine and decided to give it more love along with this blogspot.

Back to work!

2010-05-20T11:10:00.000-07:00

I'm starting an album cover/back and cd design and tshirt design for my friend's brother's band, Mirrorcage. I'll post up things as they are in progress. here's the gettingtofinished lineart of the cover, which will be scanned (at kinko's?) and finished digitally...

Lulu Books!

2010-05-17T11:42:00.000-07:00

My books came today! My brother ordered 3 for some reason, I guess so he could have one. The only problem I had was the first couple pages have al ittle white edge to them...I don't know why, since they're the same size as the rest and the rest came out fine...oh well. Have some cell phone photos! But...I suppose other than that it's safe to buy. I might try and fix the pdf if I can but I'm not too sure what the problem was...unless I accidentally positioned them too far over in the indesign file...

The cover looks really nice!

"Eska" Comic Complete

2010-05-07T09:15:00.000-07:00

My Illustrated Story 3 comic, Eska, is completed and up for sale on lulu.com.

Web Design Personal Site

2010-05-06T15:39:00.001-07:00

Personal Website

The final product of my personal site I learned to make in Web Design 1 this semester.

"Eska" Preview Pages

2010-05-04T22:30:00.001-07:00

A few select pages from my 24 comic for Illustrated Story 3. Still have a few left to ink, then finish them up in photoshop with spot color/small adjustments.

CARDS CARDS CARDS!

2010-05-04T20:08:00.001-07:00

Finished my decks! Two boxes....each perfectly fits 1/2 the deck. They're fat since I printed each side and glued them together.

Cards and Standup

2010-05-04T07:02:00.000-07:00

Card Box

2010-05-01T17:55:00.001-07:00

Cards completed!!!!! Gonna go print today/tomorrow...here's the box! (or one version of it...)

100th post!

2010-04-28T11:40:00.000-07:00

This is my 100th post. Jeez. I did an Eska card (Eska is the character from my comic this semester) for my deck of cards....i know it makes no sense in a circus...but it's super cute.

Card Progress

2010-04-25T19:59:00.001-07:00

Card Progress

2010-04-18T15:34:00.001-07:00

Pretty much 1/4 done. I want to get 1/2 done by tonight (except for putting on the suit signs and finalizing what i'm doing with the numbers.)

Four Cards

2010-04-17T18:04:00.000-07:00

Comin along nicely, I think...

ALSO if you post a comment and it doesn't show up, it's because I have them set to be monitored before posting due to that random chinese porn spam I keep getting.

Card Prev

2010-04-17T09:37:00.000-07:00

These two are my preview images I guess...I added a spotlight of color (taken from the figures) behind them...still need their suit signs...I like how that looks, and I think I'm going to use it in each one, with possibly more decoration...I haven't decided if I'm going to include the titles of each act or not...probably not since with 52 things I was prone to making shit up eventually. I mean there's a flying fish dude.

Card Preview

2010-04-16T16:13:00.000-07:00

Romulus and Remus

2010-04-14T07:38:00.001-07:00

I don't think I ever posted the finished piece. This is my favorite...Someday I might go back and mess with it some more, maybe not...Definitely learned a lot from it though.

People Portraits

2010-04-13T18:06:00.000-07:00

I like drawin peoples. I asked a few people if they wanted me to draw them and this is the first, my new friend Shar Flores who is super fun to draw. **EDIT: Just added the original scan, which shows my pen marks. The other one is edited in photoshop to get rid of the marks.

1/4 demons inked

2010-04-07T12:36:00.000-07:00

Reference Photos

2010-03-26T07:49:00.001-07:00

Here are the photos I used for reference for the two Romulus and Remus illustrations for comparison.

2010-03-25T18:46:00.000-07:00

It's getting really different now. I'm loving it.

Progress

2010-03-24T07:09:00.000-07:00

I haven't really done anything to the wolf image, but there's the full work in progress shot of the killin one.

Progress

2010-03-23T20:40:00.000-07:00

I'm not gonna mince words here...my spring break was filled with not doing work. Most of the time due to doctor visits and repercussions from switching meds, but also because it was my freakin break. I'm scrambling to catch back up, here's some more work on Rom and Rem. I've decided I wanna pull a standard me and make smoke come out of this bro's mouth like his soul is coming out and it turns into a mass of wings and vulture heads. Maybe use some photo overlay wings for this? Still dunno about the other illustration...I'm way too far gone in this one at this point.

Romulus and Remus Progress

2010-03-08T13:23:00.000-08:00

I'm trying to experiment with photos...for the wolf with baby Rom and Rem I took the photos Elliot and I took at the zoo and picked one of the wolf and did two different thresholds and overlayed them and then found pictures I had taken last christmas of my nephew Tucker and did the same thing (I love the convenient one of him reaching up, he was holding a toy he just got and I cropped it out). I'm just playing around with that since I'm finding it hard to think of ways to just maintain that black, white and spot color.

For the one of Romulus and Remus fighting and killinz, I took a photo of Matt and Alex posing and laid a darker thresholded version overtop to bring out shadows, then drew lineart in a layer over those two layers and then made another layer ontop and started painting it over it all, letting the others show through a little and put a texture on top while I painted to see how it would look.

Just experimenting!!! This is one of my first few times trying digital painting...I'm still using a little big of linework but I mainly tried to use some things I picked up from watching Alex paint and watching the tutorials we watched. I need to find that darn slanty brush tho.

Thumbnails for Romulus and Remus

2010-02-24T10:30:00.001-08:00

Another one

2010-02-23T11:52:00.000-08:00

I like this one because I'm having trouble being ok with how the text boxes look cropped around objects AND going overtop of elements. I am feeling like the squares just overlapping the entire image is the way to go because otherwise it seems selective and confusing to me. I'm kind of tempted to throw in labels for the animals and flowers on the bottom to have more text at the bottom and to emphasize the "science" of it.

EDIT--Added one with the "scientific" labels which have rounded corners and kind of progress in a zigzag pattern to emphasize they are separate...I really like this one completed. I don't know if I'll get feedback but I'm going to sit around for a while and hope I do and then print.

Artbook

2010-02-22T20:21:00.000-08:00

Got my test artbook for comics class in the mail today, I'm going to see if I can sell these with commissions to raise money for a trip in may.

I do not recommend clicking those thumbnails to make them bigger. Super blurry cell phone photos.

A few text mockups?

2010-02-21T18:22:00.001-08:00

So I really don't even know where to begin here. Just throwing some ideas together...I tried wrapping it around the guy but that looked really really strange. I wanted to pop the text out like alex did with light squares and that way I wouldn't have to go around the vines...but I dunno about these shapes quite yet...any suggestions?

Spread Again

2010-02-21T15:26:00.000-08:00

I took advice from various people and came up with this...I love it. The last page is more avatar-y because of the blue, but I kind of see it as a sunset. About to try some text mockups...I hope I can mount it with the space between each page...

Completed Spread

2010-02-17T16:40:00.000-08:00

Finished my spread! I feel like I need to bring out hilights or knock out the textures on certain areas like the tree and plans on the first page and the person on the second and the fancy flowers/tree on the third so that way the text doesn't dominate everything...any suggestions?

Avatar Spread Progress

2010-02-15T15:26:00.001-08:00

This is taking me longer than expected and it is not doing what I want to in some areas...I'm hoping to color the third page on Wed in class and then have finishing touchups left to do and to place text...

Avatar Spread In Progress

2010-02-06T21:04:00.000-08:00

Working on the inks for each page, there is a preview. I also wanted to share the awesome site I used for screenshots of the plants/creatures...it even had the names of everything! Avatar Wiki

Color Comp/Mockup

2010-02-03T12:35:00.000-08:00

This is the finished kind of mockup of the finished spread...I still feel like I'm going to add more elements to it once I get down on the larger version, and the larger sheet of paper/working space will be conducive to that. But this is the basic idea, and the white lines are obvs representative of the text, and how it will flow around the dude and surrounding environment. I think it gives it a story-bookish feel that I dig thus far.

Obviously this isn't finished/it will look a lot better once I start working on the finished piece, but any feedback at this point would be GREATLY appreciated.

3 Inked Demons

2010-02-03T09:06:00.000-08:00

I started working on finishing up the 5/10 I was satisfied with from the first batch of 10. I'm going to start trying to sketch/finish one per day if possible. I have learned my lesson that cramming 10 design attempts into 2 days=half of them are worthless.