Projects 1 and 2

Here's what I did for projects 1 and 2 for C. Hill's Illustration class:

First is a sign about the Art Department. My concept was "Stop Art" and was about censorship, but unfortunately the class and the instructor didn't get it.

This is my head in profile filled with illustrations about my life and interests. Including movies, music, food, family, etc.

Twain: Man is the Reasoning Animal

Here we were given a list of quotes from Mark Twain and asked to select one to illustrate. Twain is full of awesome quotes, so there was a number of great choices. I originally thought about doing one on chastity, but decided my idea was more about modesty which isn't quite the same thing.

Ultimately I decided upon "Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it's open to dispute." Notice how timeless Twain's quotes are? He could have said the exact same quote today and it'd work just about the same.

Ghost Turkey

This was one of my projects for C. Hill's Illustration class. The project was for a contest related to a surprise at Thanksgiving for a brother and sister.

Amy Youngs

I found this fabulous artist over at http://www.ylem.org/artists/ayoungsWhat a talent! Her Micropropagation is both funny and very contemporary while surreal at the same time.

New Beginnings

As to the very spartan state of my blog, I'm just starting out, I'll try to flesh this beast out along with figuring out all the tools available to me on Google's blog site.

I'm trying to decide exactly what I want to post here, including artwork, poetry, personal stuff, views on politics and religion and life, or what..

I'm not sure how much of that would really fit the theme of the same blog, maybe others can suggest how to handle this? Should I run more than 1 blog for different types of things? Or just mash them all together and post appropriate tags?

Digital Illustration - Fall 2008

This is my first in class project for this class. The idea was to take primary shapes to create images, using only 2 colors, in this case black and white.

We took triangles, rectangles, and circles to draw a wolf, a red riding hood figure, and trees, then arrange them to form a narrative with several different versions, this is one of them.

This was done using the current version of Adobe Illustrator on a Macintosh.

I experimented with relative scale and placement of the wolf and riding hood figures, and rearranged and rotated the trees appropriately.