Open house poster design and the wrath of mother nature

I'm just so active this week, aren't I? I hope this is good enough to hold you over because I'm going to be working on putting my portfolio together and getting my postcards ready and trying to move and blah blah. I should have a couple more pieces before the end of the semester though.

This first one was my design for the open house poster, minus the type. It's sockeye salmon jumping upstream! You know, because jumping from high school to college is difficult and sometimes it feels like your jumping upstream (especially in art college) rather than going with the flow.

This next one is sorta about the tsunami in Japan, but sort of not. More a comment on how nature (mother nature in this piece) can be both beautiful and destructive. Its a calm destruction on the bottom, but the houses are slightly disheveled. 

Much needed update.

I've been really busy lately getting everything together for graduation so I've been neglecting blogging a bit. So far Zach and I have looked at many houses in West Reading, one we loved and one we like but there are complications with the one we love at the moment. Who knows, we'll see what happens. Also, my website is all shiny and new! no more stupid wordpress. I dislike wordpress, personally. I just can't tame that beast. So check out the new one made using Jon Laing's cms.

Now a couple of illustrations! This first one is a personal piece, no real concept behind it. I did this about a month or so ago, so I just keep forgetting to upload it.

This next one is an illustration for "The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles"

Enjoy!

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.