Owl Deer Art Toy

Finished a toy design project this week. We had to use 3 wooden objects and make something out of them (we could add whatever we wanted to on top of those objects like fabric, sculpy etc. I decided to create my Owl/deer creature who I've drawn and used in older illustrations before:

So here are some photo's of what I did! starting with the base mode, i sanded down the main block and used wire surrounded by Sculpy to make the antlers.  I made the wings, feet, ears, and beak in sculpy:

 Leading to the painted version, I just used normal acrylic paint:

And to the HATS!! no beautiful creature like this could be complete without a few stylish head toppers!!

The hats are made out of leather, felt, and ribbon, that surround the other wood pieces I had to use...

All in all, I had fun :)

THUG LIFE.

Hello to allllll who actually look at my blog haha. Hopefully you'll enjoy this bull i drew for a children's book project this semester.  He is pretty sick, if i do say so myself :) The other pages I have posted are a few of the rough dummy pages for the book. Enjoy!

Drawn in Graphite, Textures and Awesomeness added in le Photoshop.

Half Title Page: 

Children's Folk Tale - Character Sketches

My assignment is to illustration a folk tale.  For this project I chose an English folktale from part of my British Heritage called, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune.

The full story can be found here :
http://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/English_folktale_5.html

Here are my initial character sketches:

 I'm not to fond of the bull/yak so i think i'll redo him

Woodland Sea Adventure

After a grueling night of about 6 different attempts to try and illustrate this cover with only traditional mediums for my professional applications class. I failed haha..

Soo at 9:00pm I went back to good ol' graphite and ink :) dull but reliable. Around 2am I finished, and decided that I would go ahead and color it digitally because I wasn't happy with just the black and white. Not sure if I'll be marked for the color one, but I'm satisfied that i ended up with something colorful and textural :)

Photoshop, i love you.

Editorial Smooth Roughs

Progress: finished the smooth roughs and defined the characters a bit more. 

 I kind of imagined them as a group of critters that all needed to get somewhere for some reason, and how else would they get there but in a folded paper boat?? Anyways, the final image has to be done by the end of the week, so i better start to ink this sucker!

MANTAGE.

Sooo.  This is what i do in my spare time.  I make posters of my awesome friends; Jack, Nick, and David, who fight Grizzly bears in their spare time like a boss.  Shout out to leah for the title name and advice, and mama lamb for helping me with composition.

Urban dictionary definition of mantage:
Mantage: is a montage consisting of manly, testosterony activities that only the grittiest, manly men can manage.

In this case only bear wrestling.

Cover Assignment: BLAB roughs

After two weeks back at school, I'm finally starting to get some stuff done! Here is some of the process work for my Ilus: Professional Application class. The assignment is to create a loosely narrative cover (part of a larger narrative), for the publication of BLAB.
Throughout this class professional illustrators look at our work in addition to the teacher, which is super cool.  For this assignment, Ryan Heshka gave us some great feedback and advice!  I will be going ahead with idea number one, so keep checking for updates:)

Inspiration Board

 

Thumbnail roughs and text treatment: