A Child's Garden of Verses

So first off I did a piece on an album for TrickGo's "Recover" show.



I'm not too happy with my piece because drawing on the album cover turned out to be like drawing and painting on the side of a refrigerator, but it was a fun spring break project.



my album was Disney's "A Child's Garden of Verses". I decided that people killing each other (but more in a stage version of murder hence the ribbons representing blood) would be kinda funny overtop these innocent kids playing in a garden. everyone seems to look at me funny when I say that though. Maybe something is wrong with me, but I think there's something wrong with everyone else, HAH!

Next is a wedding invitation I did for my cousin and his fiance's wedding. The invitation has characterizations of them and their kids. Its my cousin with his son on his shoulders and his fiance with her daughter at her side. They are looking at each other, blissfully, as they are about to embark on their life together. I blurred out the details. I'm sorry, but you guys can't come. 

His Dark Materials

"The Amber Spyglass"

ELY

Done. Finally. 4 months of torture and the Ely is finally done.

My Ely is my own adaptation of the Led Zeppelin song "friends" into a children's book. The story is basically this : from the viewpoint of the main creature in the story. The creature finds a boy on the side of the road crying, lost, and literally blue. The creature smiles at the boy and makes him feel better and more comfortable. He carries the boy through the forrest on his back with the light from his tail making the boy feel safer and less scared. All of the creatures in the forrest comfort the boy as they travel through the wood. As the boy feels happier and happier, he starts to gradually gain his natural color back. Eventually the creature leads him home to his own neighborhood where the boy runs into his mothers arms.

For the whole story to be told there would have to be a few more illustrations, but these are the 4 for my Ely.

Ely poster

So here is my ely poster. It didnt win, but it got 6 votes which is pretty sweet considering the top 3 had 7 and 8 votes. They eliminated it because the bird is deadish and its kinda depressing I guess. But that was a part of the concept so I knew that mine probably wouldn't be picked. They wanted a representation of the Ely process, and this is how I feel about the Ely, hah. I'm just happy it got votes!

end of semester update

I'm only going to post a couple things, cause everything else is ely stuff and I'm not quite happy with all of those pieces so i wont post them until they're done. these are both pieces from children's book illustration.

first, alice in wonderland spread:

now the final for children's book. i decided to do the greek myth about the sirens cause i felt like drawing mermaids:

ta da.

Illustration Friday

This weeks illustration Friday is "afterwards". I chose the book cover I did last week because this is after the "the misfit" kills the entire family. 

They ded.

first off, this is my second assignment for portfolio class. the assignment was "inventor and invention" so I did Theobald Boehm who  didn't invent the flute but perfected the modern flute and the modern fingering system. The flute is supposed to be a bone flute, but I didn't really push that enough. It's not really close enough in for me to really make it look boney. He is also surrounded by animals because flutes were originally made from animal bones. well anywho, here it is. it came out okay i think.

Next, my book cover for the Flannery O'Connor short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find". The type is hand done also, but I'm not happy with it. One day type and I will be friends, I just have to figure it out. 

Here is an in class assignment we had 20 minutes to complete.

And here is my halloween card for Bob Byrd's class! It folds up and the two outer monsters become one. I also drew the type myself on this one, but I actually like the type on this one. It ain't so bad!

Folded, it looks like this:

It doesn't meet up exactly, boo. But it was really hard to plan out. I'll know better for next time to even check during the painting stage and not just the drawing stage. 

boopbeepboopbibi.