Star Shadows

Photoshop.

Hope everyone had a Splendid Solstice!!!

Credit to the Hubble Telescope for the awesome pictures of space. So neat.

Not really sure what I was thinking for this one. I like it though. Played with transparency and layering. Also, disembodied forearms! That's always good times.

The one on the right ended up with hair sorta like Josie, from Twin Peaks, and I kinda liked it, so I left it short, though maybe it is awkward how it doesn't define her neck like the others.

Sins, continued.

Photoshop.

Some more plates.

Scandalous

Photoshop.

Swingin' by to share a couple of things from class. This project was about the Seven Deadly Sins, and I chose animals to represent each one, and then illustrated them for a theoretical collectors' plate series. The Seven Deadly Sins are a set of ideas, and how better to display them than a set of wacky collectors' items?

I ended up liking these two the best, but I might come back and post the others if anyone is interested.

The fox is envy, because they're sort of sneaky and cunning, and he looks like he's coveting something. Also, green-eyed. Duh. Besides, everyone loves a fox.

The snake is gluttony, because he ate something that was too big. In all honesty, it's probably an egg, but Larry said he liked the creepy ambiguity of a "mystery bulge."

Here is what they look like as pretend plates:

Rainforest Layers

Photoshop.

This one was sort of a doozy. It's 6 inches wide by 5 feet tall. Everything was hand-drawn in Photoshop with a tablet, though I may have borrowed the beetles from *cough* a previous piece. I broke it into panels to upload so I could show some more details.

There may be some pretty blatant ecological discrepancies, but I won't say anything if you don't.

Crumpled Statue

Ink, scanned textures, photoshop.

I am in no way actually affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The first assignment for class was to create a poster for a currently running production put on by the RSC.

I was somewhat disappointed that I couldn't fit a bear in anywhere.

Garden Sunset

Polychromos colored pencils.

Playing with my new pencils and ignoring perspective.

Festive Insect Activity

photoshop, illustrator.

This is/was my entry to the 2011 ACL Design Competition held by the Austin Parks Foundation. For those of you not familiar with the Austin City Limits Music Festival, it's a music festival that happens here in Austin at Zilker Park. Tons of people show up every year, and it's sort of a thing.

Thought I'd try to show the native park inhabitants enjoying the music.

Midsommar Sun

Photoshop.

The Solstice Girls get their tan on.

(Don't worry, Mom. They're wearing high SPF, broad spectrum sunscreen, reapplied liberally every hour.)

Butterflies Flutter By

Graphite.

Crazy butterfly lady. She cray-cray.

(My final project for Basic Illustration.)

Twitchy Eyes

Watercolor, Colored Pencil on Arches, Cold Pressed.

Another project for class. A series of reptiles.

Original reference pictures by Igor Siwanowicz. View his work at DeviantART or Photo.net.

You Feeling Lucky?

Prismacolor Colored Pencils.

Did this for class. Hadn't intended to post it here, but having done no other finished work outside of class and feeling worse by the day about not posting anything for March, I finally gave into my blog guilt.

The project was to create an alternate poster for the Coen Brothers' movie, No Country for Old Men. It seemed appropriate to have the antagonist looming over the horizon looking dark and creepy with the Texas Rangers in the foreground looking on hopelessly over the barren west Texas landscape. Then tried to give it that sort of sepia-toned western-y feel.

Blueberries

Acrylic wash, 03 technical pen.

Perfectly composed falling blueberries. A project for class. Multiple layers of acrylic wash + seemingly millions of stipple dots = many, many hours of my life that I will never get back. Blurry at the top because I am too lazy to make a decent scan right now.

Celebratory Dancing

Colerase.

Cleaned-up sketches of the dancing cats on my sister's birthday card this year.