Business Card Designs

The end of the semester is winding down, and I am reminded again that I have no business card. So thankfully my class is doing a project to help us in this area. So far I want to do an illustrative approach to this but I still dont have a consistent theme yet. Here are some designs for the cards. Definitely more are coming until I can decide on a final one.

Would be back of Card

Kanji symbol means "Soul"

Just a fun one.

Concept Art Illustration

"Overwhelming Force" - Photoshop

 

This last few weeks my classI was given an opportunity by my professor to do a open assignment. I was so glad to be able to focus on an area of illustration that I might go further in. So I decided to do a creature design and a mech design. But even after doing the designs I wanted to breadth life into my creations. So I decided to do an illustration. The whole narrative was to have machine controlled by poachers that are hunting these exotic dinosaur like creatures. The composition instead was simplified  to highlight the struggle of nature vs machine. I still need to do more to know which direction to take. This summer I am going to seriously research and define my goals.

Children Book Illustration

"The Starry Phenomenon"  
Digital Painting
  2012

This is a recent illustration done  in Photoshop. It is a children book illustration, depicting a magical moment of these containers coming from the sky, each containing pearls. This was based on the task of taking a page from a dictionary and only using the words on the page to make a cohesive illustration. One main issue that I have and others have pointed out is that it is too complicated for a children book illustration. I agree with them. Kids (small) like to see big shapes and simple ones. I love the characters that I have in this piece, but I feel the background competes with them too much. This is yet again another learning experience of knowing your specific target audience and planning accordingly. Well back to more work.




Below is the initial character sketches

Newest Illustration!

"Deadly Escort"
Digital Painting
Photoshop

Whew...Finally finished an actual illustration. This project has really been a learning experience for me. My goal was to truly practice my technique in photoshop and improve my painting skills. I am glad that I have been able to reach this much of realism in photoshop. Now onto more creative, original and  challenging projects. Wish me luck. 

Children book illustration

Just a practice for how I would illustrate a kid for a book. Just learning and doing.

Pre Production Practice

        Here is a sketch of my idea. A few more changes, some reference shots and onto the work!

I am really excited for this project that is coming up for me. This yet again going to be a culmination of what I have learned in Photoshop. This ones are practices of the figure that will be in my piece. The piece will have like a lara croft meets frank frazetta. I going to do one more practice piece then tackle the main one. Yipee! :)

Speed Paint

One hour speed paint to loosen up for my upcoming digital illustration that I am looking forward too. I don't know what this was supposed to be. I just remember thinking of some kind of monster or robot guarding a shiny gem. Like some kind of RPG dungeon boss that guards something of high value in a cave.