Final Illustration

Sketchbook assignment illustration. I decided for this one to do my sketch of opposites, those of which being freedom and security. The eagle is our nations bird that represents freedom and all of its goodness, and the background is JFK airport, since security in airports and in our nation has gone up tenfold since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I thought it was perfect.
I caught a little slack for deterring from oils or some other form of media and doing this digitally because that is my major and my "comfort zone" however I did not look at it as a cop-out but more so as a further development in my skills. I have only taken one computer graphics class, and that was also this semester, so in no way shape or form am I a pro at digital media. I simply saw this as in opportunity to work on it even further, and in a way, on completing this project, it helped me cement why I chose my major in the first place. I really enjoy the graphic arts, and cannot wait to move forward in it. I found my niche, and this project helped me fully come to that conclusion, so I have no regrets in doing it.

Themed Illustration; Comp

For those reading this I regret to inform you that I cannot locate my themed illustration comp at this time, totally my bad, I got so swamped with other things going on I must have misplaced it, its probably located in the backseat of the hot mess I call my car, but I have yet to discover it. I did however have it on the day it was due and everyone got to see it in all of its glory, unfortunately I do not have it to put on here. :(

Resilience Final

Finished product with paint. At first I really really did not like the way it turned out. I believe this had something to do with starring at it for hours on end and feeling frustrated. But after moving on and starting other sketches, after I came back to it its not so bad. I got some bad rap about how the pine trees weren't much of pine trees anymore, and I thought about changing them, but then I realized ya know what, when you look at the mountain side your eye doesn't see every little point of ever single pine tree. You see the cluster of green pointy trees and immediately your brain clicks and says, "oh hey look, pine trees." So I left it. I painted what I saw, and quite frankly, I'm very happy with my results.

Resilience Comp

Comprehensive for my mountainside. Overall I believe it turned out quite well, and the nice part about putting it onto tracing paper was that I was able to make the bunches of pine trees from my original sketches more prevalent across the entire mountainside as oppose to just having a few small clusters here and there... now its time for paint.

Sketchbook Assignment; Wildcard

Oh the end of the semester rolls on through, and as expectations continue to be high, moral falls. Wildcard, could mean any sort of thing, but in my mind it only meant one. Personified cards, acting a hot mess. So here it is, as you can see we have the lovely 4 of diamonds, whom had a few too many drinks, but she doesn't care she just wants to have fun and dance! Poor thing regrets to realize that her skirt isn't long enough, and her diamond is totally showing. Not very lady like #4, but we've all been there, right ladies? In the background to make this a little more compositionally sound, we have #4's lovely looking friend the 2 of diamonds, watching her friend be a hot mess and covering her eyes cause she cannot take it anymore. And of course the male in this picture the 3 of hearts, doing what any good male friend would do... Takes out his Iphone to take pictures and remember this crazy crazy night. Wildcard baby, nailed it.

Sketchbook Assignment; Opposites

When coming up with ideas for this sketch, I wanted to make sure that I did something that was outside of the obvious box of opposites... "black and white" "big and small" "up and down" yeah yeah, those may have completed the assignment, but in my eyes that wasn't much of a challenge. So I went to the interwebs, when in doubt, the internet will solve all your problems, right? I looked up lists of different types of opposites and found a pair that I thought would be nice and challenging. Freedom vs. Security.

First thing that came to my mind for freedom was the bald eagle. Our country's universal sign of freedom is that magnificent creature souring across the sky. Perfect. Now for security. Airports. Our country's highest threat of security since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. How perfect. One of my ideas was to have the eagle actually flying through the inside of an airport, maybe through the security terminal or something, but that became to unrealistic in my mind. So then I googled pictures of JFK (the airport, not the president)  and thought to myself how it would make the perfect sketch. A bald eagle flying over JFK airport. Freedom and security.

Themed Illustraion; Final

I was so happy with the way this piece turned out. I feel my painting skills have done nothing but improved since the first illustration, and I really feel it shows. I added an orange "Aura" around my alien cause I figure, no one knows what aliens look like, well shit, mine has a nice glow to it, and considering orange and green are complements, I figured it would work out quite nicely. And if I could go back... I wouldn't change it. This is one of my favorite pieces of this semester, and to be honest I think one of my favorite things about it is the planet in the upper right hand corner. Something about the way I painted that really just makes me smile every time I look at it. Arguably it may be placed too close to the edges of the page, but that's just something to consider and keep in mind for next time.