Album Cover Design

"Rhythmic Journey"  Digital Painting  Photoshop 

Illustration done for an album cover. I was influenced by the band Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. I love their fusion jazz and style that travels into other genres. That is why I did this space ship flying through this valley of instruments. I really enjoyed it and it is definitely one of my strongest pieces of work.....so far.   P.S. Victor Wooten is the BEST BASS PLAYER EVER!

Car Concept Designs

If only I interned under Syd Mead! This was just playing around with different vehicle designs. I realized that I actually didn't know how to draw cars in the first place which definitely throws a wrench in designing anything. So I took my time to draw cars and then play around with them. Its just always good to draw and draw some more because who knows what shows up!

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.