Meme Cards

For my illustration 2 final, we had to create a deck of playing cards centered around a theme. My idea was to create meme cards with medieval sensibilities to connect it with the cards already existing theme and to create the ultimate in dorky cards. This was done with pen nibs, to give it a wood cut like look, and photoshop colors to still match the aesthetic of the internetz.

Drawing from the Tablet and character designs

More work from the semester

An in class figure drawing with green and blue lights
A figure drawing of my roommate with imagined elements a.k.a unicorns
An anatomy study of a Trorgre (Troll orgre hybrid) who is giving a thumbs up to let you cross his bridge.
Character designs based off sketches of real people. The last one is my teacher and he is discussing his favorite subject.

Intro to 2D animation Demo Reel

My best work from my 2D animation class

Character Design and Zodiac illustrations

Here is a fun assignment from my character design class where we had to created characters around a narrative. I took the Todzilla comic strips from before and elaborated the ideas into a cartoon pitch.

Toddilla is a giant monster who wants to be a real superhero just like his hero Chicken man. He disguises himself as Turbo Tyrannaman and tries to impress the fellow giant monsters of "Monstropolis" and his school. Unfortunately, the other monsters have little respect for him so he is mainly ridiculed by others and does not have many friends, one of which is an anxious moth name Mojh who cant find time to sleep during the day (becuase of giant monster school) or night since he is nocturnal. Wolfboy is Chickenman's side kick and secret arch nemesis who feels as if he is in the shadow of a clown. He hopes to rid of chickenman and become a more serious and conservative hero

Here is the assignment I enjoyed most from any of my illustration classes thus far! I had to illustrate the Zodiac for a gaming magazine so I thought of a group of characters that could easily be seen in a 90's beat up game with powers and personalities based of the zodiac. Here are 5 spot illustrations

and here is a half page spread based off my astrological sign.

V days dos and donts

Our first assignment in illustration 2 was to create valentines day do and don't illustrations. I had to choose from the girl's list of do's and dont's so I tried to create something that they could relate to and I also went with a narrative aspect since thats the kind of work I like to do best. The first illustration followed "Don't break up with your boyfriend" where as the second followed "Do embrace the day with your best girlfriends."

Drawing from the Tablet

This semester Im taking a class called drawing from the tablet. Its like life drawing but instead of charcoal and graphite, we use photoshop and tablets. Here are some self portraits. They are steadily improving as Im learning how to blend better and how to work more efficiently.

The Circular Ruins

The final project for illustration 1 was to create four illustrations for a story called "The Circular Ruins." The story seemed to me like a mashup of Frankenstein, Indiana Jones and Inception. I can see the cinematic influences in these pieces. During crit, what I learned most from these pieces is that I need to learn how to better contrast my warm and cool colors and that most people seem to prefer simple flat colors than my attempts at rendering and lighting.