Throwing Around Some Paint

I painted this skateboard deck yesterday and today as a gift for someone I'll be seeing in a few days. I just bought a cheap board from Target and took everything off. I then used gesso to create a white base. Then started splashing on some colors! All the colors are Acrylic Inks. Below are pictures of most of the stages of the process., I just threw on colors in layers. Letting them dry in between coats. I've been wanting to paint a deck for a while so I'm stoked I was able to get the chance to do it now. The black ink is also India Ink, I used an ink brush pen for all the ink work. I'm happy with how it went overall, I didn't think it was going to be quite as dark but I'm not too phased.

Hearty Brew

Just finished my last piece for the poster class. We had to create a self promotional poster for a theoretical solo show. I wanted to create something that would be attention getting without being too over the top. Below is the finished piece:

Third Poster Finished.

I finished the Nuclear Feeding piece this morning. I spent yesterday inking it. I had a few days so I took my time with it. My next poster is to be autobiographical, we have to represent ourselves in an illustration. I have no idea how to approach that one, I definitely don't want to do anything lame. Well, anyway, here is the finished piece!

Threadless!

My shirt design has just made it up for voting on Threadless. Please vote for me by clicking on the link below and hitting the 5 and selecting T-shirt.

New Work!

4 new pieces have been uploaded to my Personal Illustration page on my website. Go check it out here!

Sketching in NY City.

During my time in NY I had a little bit of time to sketch. I ended up coming up with this flowing pattern, and repeated it as clouds. I really like how this turned out so I used the clouds as hair in another of my illustration entitled Died Young Stayed Pretty.

 I will more than likely be adding another page to my website soon. More than likely it will be another gallery page dedicated purely to posters I have done.

Atomic Bomb!

For my next project in class we have been told to create a social awareness poster, we were given a number of topics. My choice being Nuclear Disaster, as I thought it would best suit what I like to draw. I had come up with a few thumbnails, and have made up my mind as to what I'll be doing. Below is the very first line work on the final illustration. Mother and child in a nuclear disaster breastfeeding.

Summer Time!

So it's summer, and I haven't posted on here in ages. I took a little break from drawing for a couple of weeks as I felt burnt out after school ended. Then I went to NY for a week which was absolutely awesome, I'll have some photo's of that up soon. I just need to edit some of them slightly. I went to NY with my mom, which was really cool because she served as my tour guide around all the art museums. I got to see all my favourite art in person! I particularly enjoyed all the color field paintings, as well as the Surrealists work, which is my favourite of all time. I even bought myself a Salvador Dali book at the museum! So after NY I returned to Savannah and jumped right into my course.

I am taking Poster Illustration this quarter, and our first project was a movie poster. We got to choose any movie that we wanted, and we had to design a poster for it. We got given just over a week to do it, so it was a decent amount of time. For the first project I chose Creep, a British horror movie about an inbred guy who lives in the Underground. He captures people and operates on them etc. It's a pretty cool movie, definitely not for the squeamish.

Below is the original poster for the movie which I like a lot, followed by my finished poster. I am happy with what I came up with, I do wish that I had extended the arm off the page. Maybe a revision is in order when I get some time.

For the next project we had to do a poster for the movie "Died Young Stayed Pretty", a film by Eileen Yaghoobian. It's a movie about rock posters and the artists who create them. I am trying to be more inventive with my illustrations. I really love Surrealism so am trying to take as much as I can from that. Below is my finalised sketch for the project, followed by the color mock up that I will be using. I like to figure out the colors in Photoshop first before I dive into the watercolors.