A Juicy Little Update

I'm too busy with finals to consider my blog, but here's a doodle on looseleaf you can enjoy.

Fashion Calendar: March

Digital & Ink Brush

The Raven: Inspired Fashion Illustration

So I've been trying to become accustomed to brush and ink, and then digital color. I don't really like doing this method because SO many other illustrators do it, of course I have to be the pain in the ass that's different. Anyways, I figured, why not do it for a few projects just to become acquainted with it, the more you know the more you gain. So here we go... The Raven is coming out in 2012 I believe, its a historical fiction based on Edgar Alan Poe's fiction stories and how a serial killer is using them to inspire his own killings, and it takes place in the 1800s. I needed to make the movie look cool and "chic" so I took my inspiration from "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and created a glamorous yet gory figure drenched in blood. What's funny is the Alexander McQueen dress I used for this outfit was originally red, so I figured why not make her blood dye the dress red, creating an ombre effect of white and bloody red, after all it is a horror/mystery movie.

Culture Piece

Trippy

I designed "pretend" ads for Urban Decay Cosmetics. They were made in colored pencil, micron, and pencil, with collaged photos. It was heavily inspired from Alphonse Mucha.

Help Me Win Pepsi's T-shirt Design Contest!

I need VOTES! I wish Pepsi was judging the work themselves, but please vote for my t-shirt I designed. I'd appreciate your contribution. It's my first time designing a t-shirt but it's kind of fun.

http://whitetshirtcontest.com/artdetails.php?id=113

Daily Diz #12

NEW CHARACTER ALERT!!!!!

Daily Diz #11

Daily Diz #10

Daily Diz # 9

Daily Diz #8

I should be doing homework...

This here is a digital painting I've created based on this redneck character concept I've been toying with for quite some time. This is part of my idea for this story about a swamp with mutated animals in the deep south.... I really should build on this idea more. I love playing with different brushes..

Daily Diz #7

I need a vacation, somewhere tropical...

Daily Diz # 6

Daily Diz #5

Daily Diz 4

Halloween is right around the corner, time to prepare with some Halloween inspired Dizzles. Here we got ourselves a Lucifer Diz.

Daily Diz Vol. 3

Yes, you will have your time to shine...

Dizzle

Never forget your roots, 'cuz your home is where your happy.

Dizzle

Hang in there everyone who's been keepin' on in this rough economy!!!! Do your part and you shall receive the best!

JAWS Inspired works

Here's another piece inspired by the movie Jaws. Movies are a great source of influence and inspiration, and they've been helping me understand composition ever moreso than ever. I love how creepy my art is becoming this year.

Naked Paper Dolls... Oh Yeah...

So I'm taking this lifestyles illustration course, it's actually really fun because it's giving me the opportunity to create big quantities of work. Here are my paper dolls I made for it using digital painting. I think sometimes I'm more realistic when I use digital painting. The dude on the far right is super hot, my roomie described to me her ideal man, and I totally made her this hunk. Fun times.

Recent Work: Halloween Poster

I was assigned to create a poster for an annual Halloween party at MICA, the theme is Star Wars this year. I chose to do a really bloody gruesome, b-rated horror theme, referencing the biblical story Salome, to make it have even more of an interesting twist. Let's hope they choose it! After all, Halloween to me is blood and gore, spooky stuff, and monsters.

Oldies

This digital painting is totally from last semester but I'm super proud of it, i really love the color scheme, I've always loved muted, limited color in illustration

Hookers

This here was a piece I did based on a news article about a tax in Germany, forcing street workers to purchase a "ticket" in order to be permitted to carry out their business on the street in designated areas, with security included.

Graphite/ digital

New Work

So here is an "impromptu" Illustration I had to create using the word, Xanthochroid, which means, a person with fair hair and light complexion, that sounds like such an evil word but I had to make a sketch and final in 3 hours, here is the end result. A little stagnant but not too shabby.

First Piece of the Semester!

I'm taking a fine arts class called Imaging from Movies, and this year I want to keep a focus on a horror/macabre theme for my work so that I can start to prepare for Senior thesis next year. Here are some images inspired from the classic horror movie Jaws, I was focusing on trying to stay away from common imagery of the shark itself, and instead focus on the images and scenery of Amity, it's kind of a creepy beach at night if you ask me. I did this with charcoal, which I hate. Charcoal is a weird medium, I think my next piece will be charcoal pencil... I like being controlling when it comes to my mediums....

Commissions Dump

I've been designing a mascot for a t-shirt for a Wildlife Control business locally in my area in New York. The client wanted an extremely muscular raccoon bending a catchpole in his hands and mouth, with a backwards hat and tribal arm tattoos, on the right arm, having the NY Yankees logo embedded in it. And the city skyline will be in the back round. Pretty crazy idea huh? I plan on simplifying the city in the back round, but here is some work from studying raccoons and just some nice gestural studies.

Macabre Art: Made Spooky

I've been dabbling into macabre arts lately, especially tattoo artists like Paul Booth and fine artists like Saturno Butto. Creating disturbing, scary images is kind of a power surge for me because I like being able to have an effect on peoples emotions with things that disgust/disturb them. Yet we still find images of death, gore, horror, etc so interesting that we cannot just look at ONE image. I created this pencil drawing, of course, it's macabre themed. Something about evil, and darkness is just really inspiring to me sometimes, especially if your listening to a lot of Rob Zombie and Cannibal Corpse...

Ahhh, Neglect.

It's been quite awhile since I've posted on blogger. It's a shame, the summer has left me busy with 2 jobs and laziness. But, I've mustered up some ambition to post a new post. (WHOA) Here are some little plant like characters I've been playing with, and they're based off of actual varieties of flowers, and I think every flower has its own personality, individuality, and identity. I wanted to convey that in these 2 characters I've developed so far. The quirky Marigold and the most adorable Petunia...

Digital Painting!

I've been doing a lot of life drawing with the wacom tablet, and especially focusing on color and how it reflects off of flesh. Here are a few examples of brief pieces.

New Piece!

Celebrity Portraits! Snooki, done with fluid acrylics.

12x12

Snooki Studies

Still progressively working on my Jersey shore Snooki piece. Ideas take so long to develop into something worthwhile.

Random Ideas

Lately I just toyed with this idea of a redneck girl hunting for mutant animals in a bog....

Painting and Color

I need to play and experiment with paint more in my sketchbooks. Part of being an Illustrator is experimenting with different methods and mediums while you still have free time, in order to make your work more potent in the job market. Here's the result.

Graphite Nude

Creepy Muscle Guy

This drawing feels so technical, like it's some sort of medical illustration....

Life Drawing

I focused a lot on using pencil and graphite for my recent figure drawings. I like being able to control my mediums more. That's probably why I love charcoal pencils so much as opposed to plain vine charcoal. Any how, I've come to develop a sense of form and volume by using light, gradual lines and shading to create a popping 3D effect, causing my drawings to become more realistic. All my art still has a sense of stylization regardless, which I like personally.

Digital Painting: A New Approach

So I'm currently taking a class called "Drawing From the Tablet" which is basically a Life drawing course that utilizes Wacom/ Bamboo/ Cintaq tablets as the medium. I need more experience with digital painting and I feel like this class has already helped me rethink how I work with the tablet. Instead of using the pen pressure opacity jitter as a means of varying my opacity when I apply my stylus to the tablet, I was instructed to use the Opacity meter to create varying thicknesses of opacity. It really helps me blend my effects, it makes the finished piece feel more naturally painted. I hope nobody's bored with my self portraits but here's my finished piece that experimented with this new approach.