Traditional Inkwork

I've been getting into the motions of doing work traditionally and have been drawing a lot with my micron pens as of late. I've come to realize that I could put a lot more detail into a traditional piece using pens than a digital piece using a wacom tablet. Here are a couple cards I drew for family and friends.



I've been drawing a lot of wood grain-looking stuff. Also, 100th post? Wooooooooooo!

Heavens - Fear

I did this illustration for my senior projects class. The whole class (made up of art historians, graphic designers, fine artists and illustrators) worked together to create a book filled with illustrations and text.

The overall theme of the book was the heavens, and my topic for the book was fear. My illustration depicts a girl that is about to receive a halo, but then she gets punk'd and the halo gets shattered and the monster says "sike, you gonna go to hellllll!" ...in other words, my illustration was basically about the fear of not knowing whether you'll get into heaven or not. I'm not a religious person... I just wanted to draw a monster but had to settle with drawing monster hands for the assignment.



I'm really stoked at how the image came out, though! It was the first time I've had a high quality/decent quality printout of one of my illustrations. I'm also proud of the illustration in itself; I learned a lot from it.

Artifacts Poster Prints

I finally found the time to screen print this poster!

The poster is a 4 Color, 18x24 screen print. There are three gem color variations, with an edition of 9 with orange gems, 5 with yellow, and 4 with maroon. I'll put select versions up for sale in a little while.

The Prowl

Here's another project I did for my composition class. I got a bunch of new acrylic paints from a good ol' pal, so I was looking forward to using them for this project. I was out of masonite, so I recycled an older test painting and used it as my surface. Really like how the colors turned out.

Plague Doctor

I did this for my illustration class. Took awhile for me to finish it, but I finally got it done! It was designed to be a 9x24, 5 color screen printed poster, but I've decided to focus on printing another project and hold off printing this for another time.


The project theme was called beautiful/ugly and the class had to illustrate the beauty in something ugly. I chose to illustrate the bubonic plague. The beautiful aspect I found in the plague was the elaborate costuming of the plague doctors and their way of combating the plague through the use of herbs to cover up the deathly smell wafting from the infected. It kind of reminded me of a wizard or alchemist mixing up a powerful elixir using various ingredients, and although utterly futile in curing victims of the plague, I found the use of herbs in order to cure a disease to be a beautiful act due to its mysticism.

Stones

A new design of mine was just released, this time for Enclothe!


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CSUN Illustration Exhibition 2011

I was recently showcased in my college's illustration exhibition a couple weeks ago. The prepping for the show felt like a lot for something that was only going to be up for a week, but it turned out great.