bad breath and Charlie Brown

This is my large scale drawing for the editorial piece, done at 125% of the final print size. I have no idea how I will be printing it, but we'll see. My apologies for the low quality photo; it's from my cell.

We have also been doing research on illustrators. I picked Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin & Hobbes, as my subject. His main influence was Charles Schulz, who everyone knows as the creator of Peanuts. Then my research took me all the way back to Schulz's main influence Billy DeBeck, creator of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Sounds like one of those "Abraham begot Isaac" linage listings in the Bible, huh? I guess that's art for you; none of it is truly "original" and all that.

Here's a work in progress from my Computer graphics class. We're learning photo manipulation in Photoshop. Note: I do not own some of the photographs used, but I'm not making any money off of it anyway.

Editorial assignment

The next project for my Illustration 3 class is to do an editorial illustration based on a reporter's story/notes. We started by making 40 thumbnails, then we picked the best three to become 5"x7" sketches. I posted these in backwards order, but the first picture is the illustration that I plan on taking to full size, 10"x14".



I decided to avoid this one because it is too common a metaphor/image. But I still love the girl's expression.


This one works, but it doesn't have the severity of the first.

These are my thumbnails. A lot of them are just variations of a particular theme, and every so often I switched themes. I feel that this way I can make the most out of each idea. I am also able to weed out the ones that really won't work.

Visual Metaphors

These are a series of visual metaphors made from a specific list of class criteria. I can't explicitly say what they are yet, in case one of my classmates views this. Usually our teacher has us guess the meaning before the artist tells us. That way, we narrow down what works and what doesn't.

t-shirt finale!

Here's the t-shirt in full vector glory. I used the mesh tool like there was no tomorrow. Might have something to do with the fact that I just love drawing chickens. Who knows? Anyway, I would like to enter it into the Threadless.com ongoing contest, but that's a time-issue. In other words, I may not get around to it, what with the rest of my homework and all.

Our next project is about visual metaphors. I've already done some sketches, which I will post within seven days.

Also, another site to see my work is whiterose54.deviantart.com, my sort of personal blog. I don't update it as frequently, but there is a small gathering of some past pictures worth checking out.