Dustsplat

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Baba Yaga Environment concept sketches

Here are some concept sketches for my Baba Yaga project. Here i am just trying to explore and expand on the world of the story.

Dense forest concept based on one of the scenes from the story

Environment based on the white rock desert in Egypt

Land of the Giant Snails. because giant snails are cool. . .

Misty Forest concept

Rhino mountain concept

Sunday, May 30, 2010

sketch and studies

Some figure sketches and studies

was doing a creature concept based on a rhino and an african bullfrog. here are a some studies on the actual animals before doing the concept.

some figure studies and drawings from life

Monday, May 17, 2010

I went with the grass blade and dew idea. The critique i received was to make the image look more like an illustration rather than a photo. So i took this opportunity to play around with colors i've never really tried before and also different types of brushes.

As an image i personally like the version with the red/blue color scheme but felt the other 2 expressed the book better. There were other people that also preferred the other 2.

"The Help" Thumbs

Here's a class assignment where we would create a bookcover for the novel "The Help." The book deals with racism in the south during the 1960's. A touchy subject matter thats usually hard to deal with just because of the sensitivity of the topic. I felt that the best way to tackle this was to make the image a metaphorical representation of what the book is about rather than a literal image of what it's about.

I wanted to create an image that has more of an emotional impact rather than a narrative one. anyways, here' are my thumbs. the red lines represent where the text is going to go.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Picture Perfect

Final image of the Plastic surgery editorial. It took a little longer than i thought. I wanted that kind of cheesy photo look. Like it was taken at a cheap ass photo studio. I think it adds to these characters who are trying to look as perfect as possible. i realize that that woman's fake ass takes up a lot of space on the right. lol

heres the line-work for the image. they dont look as creepy here as in the rendered version.

Plastic Surgery Editorial Thumbs and Sketches

Alright, so here are my two thumbnails and corresponding sketches for an editorial on plastic surgery

Pretty straight to the point idea. Passport photo doesn't look like actual person. did some sketches for the before and after shot. played with square vs circular head shapes whilst still keeping body proportions close.

This was my first idea and eventually the one i went with. Image of a picture and frame. Parents did too much plastic surgery that the son doesn't look anything like them. Again, i tried to play around with circular and round versus square and angular shapes.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Skeeeeeeeeetch!

Okay, large post here. been quite busy recently. i wish i had more time to sketch. but anyways, heres some stuff from my sketch book.

more owls. owls are really cool to me. their skulls look really odd with their IMMENSE eye sockets

pot belly pigs

some 20-30 second drawings.

friend of mine who went back to zambia. drawing of him during his last days in the US.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Annabel Lee Final

Finally done with this thing. Ive never really had to do this kinda of piece before. The whole aim of this piece is the mood so hopfully ive been able to capture that.

Heres the linework for the piece. I made about 4 other wallpapers but i felt this one fit the piece best.

and here's the final thumbnail i went with for the image

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Annabel Lee thumbnails

Thumbnails for an illustration based on the poem "Annabel Lee" by Edgar allan Poe. Did a gazillion other thumbs before coming up with these 3 concrete ideas. But these were rejectd because they were too clear. was told to be more subtle with the story telling.

Back to sqaure one again.