sequential night out

My first piece's composition is terrrible. Just overall BAD. My second one, however, is not so bad and it's funny, because I spent way less time on it. Sometimes it's best to wing it.





For Lifestyle we had to illustrate a sequential piece that was a group or couple "out on the town" at a real place wearing real designer clothing. I chose an awesome bar in Las Vegas, figuring Las Vegas would have the best/weirdest settings out there. I didn't want to do a group of girls because that would mean no hotel and I couldn't get a good composition in a theater which really lowered my options. I also didn't want to do a heterosexual couple because I really loath drawing men. I really avoid it at all costs. Hence my pattern of lesbian couples in my last few pieces. It's really not about the girls, and it's not even about sex, people don't seem to realize outside of Art School that artists just don't see things that way. It may sound weird, but I simply love drawing the curves on women. It's a much more satisfying composition to me. As an illustrator, I'm not very good at distorting, which I think is essential when drawing men, because otherwise they just look stiff and boring. I don't want it to sound like I'm struggling to convince everyone here that I'm still straight, but I know that my parents have access to this blog and I don't want them assuming anything from these pieces. Unfortunately, this is a common problem with a lot of artists.

Words on Wheels

Every year the juniors have to illustrate a poem written by a student from the near by middle school. I'm sort of glad this is done, it's taken a while I'm tired of looking at it. But I do enjoy the colors.

Paper dolls

It's been a while. I've been super busy with school, work, life in general. Here's some of the paper dolls I've had to do for the Lifestyle class.

Paper dolls

Paper dolls for this week.

Camp!

My mother asked me to make a poster advertising her Theater Camp, Derryfield Repertory Theater Company. It might look slightly too young, but I kind of love it. I did those same clouds for a commission last year and I missed them. They also appear in my latest Concepts work which will be posted here sometime this week.

Ooh Sealife

My first real assignment for Lifestyle Illustration. We had to choose an environment and then choose clothing that fit and illustrate at least two figures in each piece. I chose the Jardin Majorelle, a French botanical garden in Morocco. In my sketches I simply had my girls just standing there and it was boring that I didn't even want to do it. I talked to my TA and she told me to think about creating a story and using that. Since the dresses reminded me of fish, I decided to go with a weird under the sea theme and since my girls are sort of under water, I made them rubbery looking and squid-like. I'm still not at all happy with the first one and corrections need to be made, but I like the second.

paper dolls clothed

Here is my first attempt at dressing my paper dolls for Lifestyle Illustration. They look alright, I'm not crazy about the guy, but that probably makes sense since I don't want to own those clothes.