Two Pieces For My BFA

20-20-20 Self Portrait Assignment for Digital Class

Digital Sketches

Paper Cutout Digital Experiment

Texture and wash digital expiriment

Lithography Experiment

Optical Mixing Experiment

Agent 8 Environment Concept

Here's the finished environment study for my art test. I had fun with this one. I got to use a new set of brushes and they are super awesome. Goodbye, round brush! I don't need you anymore!

Some Thumbnails

Here are some thumbnails and a color study for an assignment I'm working on for my illustration class. More to come.

Doug Burr - On Promenade

I did this project for school. It's album art for Doug Burr's album, On Promenade, which is actually the best album ever.
PROCESS: I did a small thumbnail with pen in my sketchbook, then scanned it and blew it up to its final size. I then touched up the lines in Photoshop until they were crisp and clean. After that, I printed it with toner, then used a Blender marker to transfer the toner to watercolor paper, which is what gives the lines the texture. I proceeded to paint it with watercolors and then scanned it and set the type in Illustrator.

Book Cover

Here's an assignment from my illustration class. We were to illustrate a cover for an existing novel. I chose "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry," which is a Newberry award winner by Mildred D. Taylor.

Patterns in Photoshop

In the "Resources for Learning" section of this blog, I posted Scott E. Franson's tutorials for creating repeating textures and making brush textures out of them. Here's an example of what you can do with that:

First, I created this pattern by using the brush tool and the offset filter:

After defining the previous image as a pattern, I applied that pattern to my brush, picked a color, and painted this in a matter of seconds: