dinosaurs and tats

This is a painting, about 9" x 12" for a fund raising event, I think for Delta Axis. The initial sketch is in one of my earlier entries if you'd like to see it. As for my actual technique, I did an value underpainting in red, orange, and yellow, then used greens and browns on top. Concept: none, it's dinosaurs. No concept needed. Period.



This is my tattoo design. I want to have them on my shoulder blades to imitate wings that were cut off, leaving only stumps.


The latest development in my business cards. As you'll notice, my name changed because I recently married my high school sweetheart, M. Maxwell.

Busy, busy!

This is the beginnings of our current project: using paper craft to illustrate an article. My chosen article is a piece about the airline industry making obese people buy two tickets if he or she can't fit into the single seat. The long piece is the rotund torso of the overweight person, and the gray thing is the airplane seat row. The one that looks like a division sign is the person's head.



This is just a sketch for a painting I'm doing during my Internship hours. It's for a show where people pay a lot to get in, but they can pick one painting off the wall and take it home for free. I'm not getting any money out of it, but I'm getting press.



Here's a version of my business card. I haven't got any printed yet, since I'm still deciding on my permanent logo. I'm going to try a version with my "vamp" logo.



This was a t-shirt contest entry for a Memphis in May BBQ team. It didn't win, but I still made a sweet picture!

This is the first sketches of the album art for the band Molten Sphinx. I've already made some revisions, and they're soon to come.
Flier

Cover

Back

These babies are thumbnails for my next assignment in Illus. We're to design a cd jacket and a promotional flier that incorporates the jacket. I'm using my friends' garage-metal band Molten Sphinx, so I delved into the plethora of Egyptian symbols and images to create these. The final image will be a photoshop/photomanipulation beast, and I'm excited. Cd covers are probably my favorite thing to work on.






Once more my logo progress. Tom likes them both, although he prefers a different chicken than the larger ver. He likes the right-sided text one. My next step is to take these and design some business cards with 'em.

This is my pretty well finished The International poster. I might alter it some if critique dictates. Overall, I'm satisfied with the end result.




In graphic design 2, we each picked a kitchen utencil, did some research on it, and created a diptych composition from it. Although I was pleased with it, my class felt it had some unresolved problems dealing with the assignment. They also commented that the headliner font was too generic. We will make one more version of this piece, so I'll have to do a overhaul on it for next week.




Finally, my two-headed chicken logo. It needs some tweaking, but my Illustration internship boss really likes it.

spring break—not quite

I'm still working on my logo. For the Vamp Co. idea, I've turned various fonts into outlines and adjusted the v's and p's to resemble fangs. I can see now that my geometric shape needs to be a little darker in order to read better.

The International

Our latest assignment in illustration is to see a recent movie and create an illustration that conveys what the movie is about. It also has to include a celebrity's portrait or caricature. I picked The International, with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. It's a pretty good movie, even if Watt's character is completely pointless. That's why she didn't make it into my art. This sketch will be blown up to 10" x 14" and transferred to a art stock, on which I'll paint the final version.



These are more ideas for my personal logo. My internship boss asked me to pick a word that fits my personality and portray it as sort of "my own company" logo.


He also advised me to take some photos and experiment in Photoshop to see what I could do. I took an old picture of one of my family's chickens, and I gave her two heads. Then I used both Photoshop and Illustrator to create different versions and effects.