Personal project wip 1

For the rest of the illustration 4 semester we are doing personal projects for four weeks. I chose Native American folklore, feeling that it is unpopular enough to not be completely tacky. The three stories I chose were all authentic tales told by the Cherokees in the 18 hundreds, and were recorded by settlers.
The first tale I chose tells of a giant bear who is eating all of the villages food. Four brothers take it upon themselves to kill the bear. After chasing the bear for a very long time they manage to slay the beast and eat it, only to find they had ran so far they were in the night sky. Nowadays the bear is the big dipper. When it is upright the bear is running from the hunters, and when it is upside down he bear has died

This image above is a color study I did for the final painting. I still have to change the size of the hunters and dog, they are a little big for chasing a giant bear

Update post Wizard of Oz

An update to my wizard of oz piece, I'll be putting it in Montserrat's open house in the next couple of weeks :)

Art From Anime Boston 2010

The best part of AB is when you are not talking to customers, you can sketch all you want!

Su

An updated version of Lulu's assignment

SuiteTart

Our next Illustration 4 assignment; a silhouette figure for suitetart.com. Lulu Locks, the owner, provides many services such as wedding photos, him and her pin ups, make up, a salon, ect. Her preferred style is 60's-ish style with an edge.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The most recent assignment in illustration 4; re-designing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I chose to draw the glass cat. The cat is made of glass, has a ruby heart and pink brains. It's eyes are made of gemstones as well. The cat doesn't show up in either of the movies, only in the books and this one comic I read as a kid

http://www.amazon.com/Emerald-City-Oz-Books-Wonder/dp/0688115586/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

(That book has all the comics in one; got it on a great deal used! The art is beautiful, if your a fan of Oz pick it up :3)

The joke with this image is the one on the pillow is the best one because it has emerald eyes, where ever other cat has topaz eyes.

Pokemonz

For Anime Boston, I'm going to be selling prints and keychains there on April 2-4th

Assignment "labor"

Illustration 4 assignment; a gallery piece based off of the word "labor"

She's blowing bubbles, that's labor...

:x

The first time in about a year I painted straight with acrylics I think? Very happy I didn't blow the piece up lol!

Corinne gift~

A gift for my friend Corinne (Her blog name is "Rin") for her birthday. It's all of her crows in china town!

Urban Legends

Illustration 4 assignment for this week. It was based off of a couple of urban legends, I chose one about scientists finding hieroglyphics that seemed to be shaped like helicopters/flying machines that looked like they could carry supplies to make pyramids.

The Withces

Our illustration assignment for the week; designing a cover for the book "The Witches", written by Roald Dahl. (And originally illustrated by Quentin Blake)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_%28book%29

Hey!

Happy Valentine's Day everybody!

And Happy Chinese new year! :3

HOMEWORKZ

YUPPERZ

First of the semester. A self portrait assignment, so I drew myself in comic cover style~

Windy and ipod finished

Finished paintings of some wips of Illustration III homework I posted previously


The final version of Windy Morning, done for a contest for Cricket magazine


Designing an itouch skin; this is the cover for the back of the itouch

And this would be for the front screen; downloaded onto one's itouch when purchased the skin


Illustrations are mixed media; speadball ink, watercolor, acrylic, and crystal clear spray.

Next Illustration; Ipod

Designing ipod skins. Planning to paint these. (The smaller one is for the background on the ipod's screen)

Natural Science illustration

Some stuff from my natural science class. Most of it are either in depth studies of the structure, or the color.

A turkey feather, lawl


Booterflies!

And a stick.

Forget Halloween!

Onto the winter wonderland!


A holiday card for winter, a contest going on at college. Squirrels are back for a second round~

Updated illustration III work

Hey all, just some work from Illustration III. (Newest to old)

Illustrating a story called "Tonto Woman". It's set around 1850s, about this woman who was kidnapped by Native Americans when she was very young, and they tattooed her face. (The editor wanted the artist to focus on the tattoos) It was a story that was published a while back, but we worked from the original editor's email.
A spot illustration for a town with a lot of strange police reports. One of them was about intoxicated squirrels, so I chose to make a somewhat postcard out of it. (One of my favorite assignments so far lol)


Illustrating the poem "Jaberwalky". I liked messing with the tree ideas in this

Our first assignment, choose one word and illustrate it. I chose "affection", and I really got into tigers recently, so this was a lot of fun.

Snowy moutains

Just really wanted to draw a parka and winter~

Scraps into stuff

Had some extra bits of bristol from an earlier project and doodled on 'im~ Working on inking my next one


This is Qi btw