A post in the middle of hecticness

I really enjoyed drawing this. The assignment was to integrate a rabbit into some quick, but finished piece. So, as usual, I was exhausted at 4 AM after struggling to work on my senior thesis, realized I had this assignment due five hours later, and I really had to sleep at least for an hour. Sooo, I summoned all my "cheats" of making simple things look done aaaaand this happened.

I ended up really liking it and I had so much fun doing the lettering. I KINDA WONDER IF I SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS KIND OF STUFF FOR MY SENIOR THEME NOW. Oh well.

Costume concept

A little something fun. It's basically a combination of Mongolian, Renaissance, and Byzantine designs. I wanted to see if I could create a costume concept for a fantasy setting and it was rather fun making something so decorative, though I'm not quite sure if it's possible to make. Perhaps I'll try this out again some time this year.

Book Illustration!

So, in a nutshell, the senior illustration class competed against each other to create a book dummy and two finished pieces from it illustrating a song. The winner of that would get their book published and a monetary award of $4,000. 

Below is quite the long entry so click if you're seated and comfortable. 

Here and There Shenanigans

Haha, aw, man, I forgot to update again. Well, the new (and last--ohgodwhy) semester of college has started more or less and I still haven't finished posting past works. So I think I'll do a bunch of them now that I don't think were as in-depth as the previous works for last semester. They're basically not as spectacular as I wished they could be, but work is work and doing none of it will get me nowhere, I suppose....

So the little images above was for a powerpoint I did in class about smallpox and basically instead of having long wall texts on a wall from a projector, I thought it'd be easier to just draw out images instead. It was fun doing these silly little things to explain about the prognosis and treatment of smallpox like this. Critically, they don't make sense without the words. Haha.

This was for a Christmas card sale the senior class had planned to do. Unfortunately, I forgot to submit the image for printing so it never got out into the public. I'm...kinda happy that it didn't. I'm just wondering where in the world went my color sense 'cause these are fine examples of muddy colors. Whoopsies. UH, AT LEAST IT'S CUTE, RIGHT?

This was pretty fun, actually. The class assignment was to create an illustration in a matter of six hours while given a random prompt. Mine was "royal tumble." I had grand plans to make different sorts of royalty tumbling down a hill like those cheese roll chasing festivals, but the perspective required to do that was much too ambitious for such a short amount of time.

In the end, I shortened my idea to do a laundry with dolls of different royalty tumbling in it as if they were the toys of the little girl in the front. It ended up manga-ish in my rush to finish and, in retrospect, that is one huge dryer. It was interesting and a little troubling that I could complete an entire illustration in one day since now I know I can finish this fast and that I procrastinate a lot more than I thought I did. 

There's also the tiny, niggling fear that my usual quality of work that takes me weeks to finish can be done in six hours as well. I'm not sure if that's a fair thing to think about to myself or if I really should reconsider my technical work. 

A conversation

This project was to illustrate a conversation according to the little slips of randomized paper you got in a hat in class. I got dinner at a restaurant.

Honestly, I can't really say how or where my mind jumped to such topics, but I suddenly had an urge to do something Godfather/gang war related from the 1930s or something in a dinner. I wanted to attempt a calm, tired setting where differences were set aside to indulge in some not-so-likely activities. Soooo, I somehow ended up with two opposite factions (Northside with Chicago Outfit back in the day, haha) just chatting over a book in a late night diner. 

There's not much process stuff here this time since I was literally doing this in one night and had done all the sketching on the computer. I'm not sure if I achieved the effect I wanted, but nevertheless, I think I did manage to get the tranquil, lonely night atmosphere going on. It was fun to do despite the panic of finishing this.

On other news, I kept thinking the darker haired dude was putting moves on the ginger while I was drawing this. I don’t deny I kept giggling like a creeper.