Dilly Dally with Illustration

I've created more illustrations as a means of more practicing and perfecting my style, composition, color, and as well as typography; which is a new challenge to master.

Rose Illustration: Created this in two hours and Photoshop from scratch, I want to make more quick illustrations like this in future. Illustrates one of my characters from my writings and the lightning is his power that he wields.

Broken Heart:  Created this illustration based off of a song; 'Helena' By: My Chemical Romance. It has a man with his chest wide open to reveal a broken heart within the dark cavity, his eyes are red to illustrate pain and suffering, it's dark because of depression and anger. Took references from the band album covers. Always, my work is bloodier than I intend it to be. It has some of the lyrics to the song: 

"And what's the worst you take, from every heart you break and like a blade you stain". 

This was definitely a challenge for typography, this isn't perfect, especially the typography. But a learning process to say the least. 

Ascension Into Revenge: Further

With the loss of his one love, he seeks vengeance against the conspirators that initiated her death.  In a world where genetic perfection is achieved; the limits are still being tested to bring about super human abilities. Further experimentation and analysis have many humans subjected to continuous testing with many trials and errors. However, experiments and hypothesis have concluded destructive results, giving the test subjects overactive and hyper strength to the extent of grotesque growths; cancerous. Nonetheless, obvious results, usually these subjects have stunted intelligence to the extent of retardation. Usually these failed experiments are kept under wraps but two have escaped with hunger in their intellectually empty eyes. Without knowing, these two failed individuals cannibalize their own kind including his love. Disposing of the two experiments, he was too late to save her.

Opening scene starts off with a scream in the distance that the door is issuing, he goes toward the door and opens it, inside he finds two grotesque creatures with human traces and recognition, however, their features are bloated, irregular and ugly. They're devouring another; normal human girl. He recognizes instantly that it is his love...he's angry and furious and acts before he thinks. The creatures come toward him to feast upon his flesh as their next victim. He lashes out on the creatures with a vengeance first propelling his arm through the closest's head with power so much, that his arm goes straight through leaving blood and brain matter splattered in his wake. The other he uses telekinesis to explode the other's head with absolute fury and a crazed expression upon his face. After disposing of the two beings he finds his love and holds her dear, only her body; mangled and stiff,  the only testament to her once lively existence. He cannot contain his emotions and his mysterious powers get the best of him as he destroys the room around him...he digs into his eyes to take out the contacts that were hiding his imperfection and drops them to the ground as he walks, never to look back...his once green eyes showed red with a fury and a vengeance. 


Page One                                                                                         Page Two

This is only a progression for what's to come. I've drawn out all of the panels separately and scanned them each individually into Photoshop to output the final project. These are all the original scans of my drawings however, I'll throw color and texture over the top and continue developing the panels and layout of the design.


Final. 

 Page One

Page Two 

I've felt that I've learned a lot from doing this project. It was quite extensive and excruciating. The first page was harder than the second because I've never done anything like this and I thought it would turn into a flop, however, it has turned out better than I originally expected.  To my pleasant surprise, the story flow seems to fit my description. As for words, I haven't decided to put in narrative or dialogue to explain the story even more.  Although there's many mistakes to which I've made in these two pages...but, a decent first time.  As I did last time, I created each panel separately and colored each separately.  I utilized smart objects to get consistent color without sacrificing detail. 

Electronic Art Studio Work

I am currently taking a class that is solely based on the illustration of images through Photoshop. Here's just a few of my works that I've done in this class. However, the execution and final pieces are not up to my original standards. They're a bit rushed and lack craft.

Snowman Illustration is the first EAS project I have done, I utilized textures and learned new techniques in Photoshop to create this Illustration based on the confines of the instructions given to me to create this work.  

Negative Self was created by scanning in five blind contours of myself and textures then using hue/saturation levels as well as other adjustment layers to create this scene. This describes my negative self of being overly confident, optimistic, narcissistic, egotistical, selfish and overly comfortable. All of these personality aspects I've just describe are opposite of who I really am.  

Zoo Illustration was created with the metaphor of the Five Hundred Pound Gorilla; which describes as hidden financial issues within the educational and business systems as well a companies. I had the gorilla dressed in a tie and glasses, sitting on money with a mountain of money in the back. Holding money to his face and a golden eye. It's also raining money in the background. There is still a few anatomical issues regarding the lower half. However, the use of psychedelic colors make this illustration pop.   

The Book Cover Illustration utilized our favorite book and mine was A Space Odyssey 3001 where it tells a tale of the future where Jupiter; illustrated as the sun, and Europa; one of Jupiter's moons explodes with life upon the surface and the aircraft in the foreground on the very right explores this new fruitful planet. I've included the Earth as well because there's a lot of scenes in the book where the Earth is in it. And everything has changed a lot over the course of 1,000 years. This was also cut paper style. 

 This illustrates myself as a super hero...well heroine. But I've based this off of a character that I am writing about which she has the power of lightning. Used a large brush and hue and saturation levels for the glowing effect, which was apart of the assignment. 

CD cover that I did with sharpie doodling, created this based off of alternative rock music and inspired by Incubus art. The front cover is the headphone girl, the back cover is the red veins, and the inside and CD itself is everything else. Had a lot of fun with this and there was no Photoshop manipulation of the drawings, just straight sharpie and scanned into the computer.