Pygmalion

Something I did for my illustration class. We were to take an old fairy tale or myth and illustrate it in two images. We also had the choice of re-envisioning it if we felt so inclined. I took Pygmalion and replaced the statue with a corpse collage... yeah, a bit morbid I know.

I didn't quite get to get them as finished as I would like, I might come back and refine them when I get time.

Assembly

Presentation

Williams bear...

So yeah, this would be the first time I've ever elected to do an oil painting for an illustration project, and considering I'd say it came out pretty good.

In all his poorly photographed glory

Face Detail

I figured I'd put the explanation after the image, as it's probably better when there's some confusion involved. We were given the option of doing either a satirical portrait, an ironic parody or a glorified portrait of a faculty member of the school. My original plan was to draw Mr. John Williams here standing on a pile of dead ninjas, bears, tigers, sharks etc. shooting lasers out of his eyes at a T-rex, stabbing a shark and backhanding a student... which I was really really excited about doing but the teacher changed her mind on the idea when she decided it wasn't satirical enough (after letting me work on it for a week... ugh). So yeah, this is my replacement idea. I like the other one enough that if I find the time I might just do it anyways...

On another note I have to find a more effective way of photographing paintings.

Under the gun

So for illustration class we were asked to do a quick spot illustration for a visual metaphor. This is my illustration for "under the gun" which I cranked out in prisma markers in about 2 hours or so.

I'm pretty happy with it mostly (considering the time) but there are definitely things I'd like to fix.

Coincidentally... I'm a bit under the gun myself right now... probably have about another 6 hours worth of work ahead of me tonight... hoo boy.

Off to work then..

First post of the second month...

So here's the first assignment I've had to do for illustration this semester, it's not actually due until the 7th... she really gave us more time to work on it than she usually does. French gave us all stories, or excerpts from them, to illustrate. I got A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud by Carson McCullers. The chunk of it I got (yeah, it seems funny to cut parts out of a story that short) really just cut out the beginning, where it describes what people are wearing and the end. It started with "The man laid one hand on the paper boy's shoulders, then grasped..." and ended with "was he drunk?"

In any case I tried something new for this one (sort of... really I just tried something that I've tried before with terrible results again, with much better results) and it worked out pretty good. Rather than starting from scratch when I took it over from photoshop I pretty much just colored it and tweaked the value, leaving the initial drawing almost completely in tact. I kind of like it, but if I do it again it'd be better to have a more resolved drawing to go over...

Graphite drawing on tracing paper.


The value pattern (digital over graphite).


Final

The results were nice, method was quick, and it was all relatively painless... all in all it was a pleasant experience... which is good.

After this one month assignment it seems like things are going to be picking up pretty quick, we already have the next assignment with tight sketches due the same day as this final here... and we're already supposed to be thinking about the assignment after that... we'll see how this goes.

More Illustration...

One last thing from my illustration class last semester. We had to do an album cover based on two songs by an artist. This was based off of Ali Farka Touré, the two songs she gave us (for him at least) were Inchana Massina and Hawa Dolo. I wanted to go for something earthy and "reaching" and this is what I wound up with. It's cut paper painted with watercolor and seperated with foam core. There are some guitar stings in there too.