Sketchbook: Digital Illustration

I don't know how I'm going to fit them all here, but hopefully I'll be able to stuff all 100 or so images. I've got quite a few doodles from this semester. Even though it's been rough, to be honest I LOVED this semester.

I love how it pushed me to draw and expand my skill.
I love how it empowered me with giving me great digital tools, so I wont be afraid to play with lighting and color and texture. Things I would be too afraid to do on a 40 hour painting.
I love the many friends that I met, and professors I got to call friends.

Illustration Assignment: Rimblade Menu Background

This is supposed to be for an Android phone screen. It's the background for our Main Menu. It's up to the Art Director if he actually wants to use it however.

The Goal here is to enlarge the menu section

Image:

Reference:  I was heavily influenced by Doug Chiang's Mechanika work, which I am perfectly envious of. The two illustrations are his.

Assignment: Sleep Disorder

Assignment: To illustrator a sleep disorder.

I've chosen Apena. While a few of my fellow artists and class mates took night terrors, insomnia, and narcolepsy and did great with them, I wanted to step away from awesome teddy bears fighting off monsters. I also wanted to see if I could strech my style a bit and see if I could grow in my digital ability. This thumb nail is the result.

A long time ago, I used to have a roommate who had apena. I'm not kidding, he shook the windows with that mighty nose. Kept my other roommates and me up every night for hours.  Blau, this is for you.

Illustration Assignment: Advertising Poster- Rimblade

Rimblade in the android market place at current.This is for my Intro to Illustration and my Digital Illustration class.

My task is to create an advertising related illustration. Since our (Gremlin Games) Android Mobile App game 'Rimblade' is in beta right now and available for download AND in need of some limelight, I thought I'd do the Android splash page and icon for my assignment.

This is where the piece will be displayed:

Refined Concepts:

Assignment: Narrative - Happiest person on Earth for Christmas

Assignment: Draw the happiest person on earth with a Christmas theme.

I believe the intent here is to draw Santa as the happiest man on Earth. To be honest I can't. Well, not can't, but wont. I know that for Christmas Santa isn't the happiest man on earth, but it's people like Hannah and her dad, Master Sergeant Joesph Myers.


There is a current fad going around the internet of showing soldiers homecomings in big ways and the OUTPOURING of emotion that follows, when I was asked to portray the 'happiest' person on earth, this is what I thought of. Basically..  tears. Not just tears, continual uncontrollable sobbing because these people are so happy.

So I want to say to you daughters of soldiers out there, YOU inspire ME.

I cried the entire time I painted this. I cried because I am so happy for YOU.

Inspiration:

Feel free to take a look at where I pulled these from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSMlIM9zLio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFLBR87naoU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygt9Wizh9mo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZWV57rr1hI
http://welcomehomeblog.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JzvKFN7G_eo#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8j21QtHXvA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXyB6FbCuc&feature=related

Round of Thumbs 1 - for ideas, composition and positioning.

Assignment: Narrative - "Nothing Ventured.."

Assignment: The goal is to create an Narrative based illustration based on the phrase: "Nothing Ventured, nothing gained."

I went through a variety of ideas, everything from a skydiver, to a sleeping beauty style prince, to a guy looking through a portal. (see below) Eventually I went with a portal, but mostly because I loved the idea of playing with the lighting from the portal.  Enjoy!

Gosh I've been sick lately. So it's been extra difficult to get this all done.












Some early ideas I sketched out in the process of figuring out what I wanted to do:

Assignment: Self Characture

Assignment: Take a picture of myself using the iMac's Photobooth option in class and characterize it. ( I just made that word up)