Monday, October 22, 2012

Long Live the New Flesh

Movie have played an important role in my life.  Being able to create something new based off that passion is a rush that drives me to hone my craft only that much more.  So, when CCAD's Illustrative senior-level class (Advanced Styles and Concepts) handed the reins over to me, movie posters were the first thing on my list.
One restriction was provided for a set of 3 illustrations- we were to create a series of 3 ads/posters/announcements about an event or character or who-knows-what.  I looked into upcoming film anniversaries and compiled a short list which I posted on my tumblr.  I received a good chunk of feedback on what people would like to see and David Cronenberg's Videodrome was chosen.
For the first teaser poster, I knocked together several thumbnails, four of which I refined:


Two were chosen by the teacher and myself, which I cleaned up more:


And in the end, we have our first final!


Now the tricky part- creating two more original concepts to see this series tied together nicely.  

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Halloween!

This was a project for Children's Book illustration- essentially we had to create a wrap around cover for Cricket magazine with an autumn/harvest/halloween theme.  I came up with the idea of monster children going trick-or-treating in normal folk town and scaring plain folk.



After thumbs and what not, we arrived at a final layout



Playing around with color schemes


Final color comp


We then had crits in class, and the teacher felt in terms of the magazine layout, I should flip the image to have a more rewarding lead in to the back cover.


And finished!



All in all I'm not super satisfied with how it turned out, but there are aspects I can't help but appreciate.