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.