December 2010
8 posts
All Hail the Mighty Tome
I was super into working in my various sketchbooks this semester. Here are some pearls that have happened over the semester from my personal illuminated manuscripts.
Painting Final
My final project in my Oil Painting class was to create a master copy, and a response to that copy. As an illustrator, I feel that my illustrations rely on my painting, and as an illustrator of largely mythological themes, I feel largely influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites.
I chose to create a master copy of Gather Ye Rosebuds while Ye May by John William Waterhouse. It’s not my favorite...
Henry Molaison
One of my assignments for Illustration Studio was to create a half-page, magazine illustration for an article about Henry Molaison. I did some research on Henry Molaison, and the images that stuck with me were the descriptions of him in his courtyard, watching trains with his bunny and his dog. Here was my first ideation comp:
I then painted the final draft, scanned it, and switched the...
The Transformation of an Illustration
For my Illustration Studio final, I was assigned to create an anti-smoking PSA. This was an interesting and weird assignment for me, a smoker.
I decided to build the PSA around the amount of money the government receives annually from cigarette sales. With US government symbolism and my own style in mind, I initially planned for the PSA to be rife with Masonic symbolism and to look very...
Still Life Oil Painting
Oil on canvas
Fall 2010
Typeface
Here is a typeface I designed for my Illustration Studio class
Update Time!
Hello All! Happy Yule :)
Finally getting around to updating here. It’s been a pretty full semester, and I’m excited to show you what I’ve come up with.
I finally moved into a place of my own where I can actually be stationary for the next few years! This is a huge relief, and should also be conducive for keeping current with this blog (I now have a scanner at my disposal.)...
Think your breasts look weird? Think again. →
blackenedbutterfly:
This is what non-edited breasts look like. There’s an extensive gallery of user-submitted pictures of what the normal range of breasts actually look like (as opposed to the images of perfect breasts we see in the media).