Longfellow and more

My friend Alex King allowed me to create a concept for his character (from his short story) Longfellow.  I'm hoping to work with Alex a lot more in the future, as he has some really awesome short stories (mostly of the horror genre I believe).  If you're interested in reading any of his stories, you can reach him at aking@westliberty.edu .  Along with the concept, I've also posted quick mock layouts for website designs I'd like to try (for businesses in my town).  The layouts really are just meant to show color palette and layout ideas, so they were each done in about five minutes.  And sorry for not updating in such a long while.  I'll try to pick up the pace (moving just took a lot of time to get used to).

 

Photos

I've decided to start taking photos every day in order to keep a photo-journal of sorts to look back on one day.  Also, taking photos and editing them is really fun, so I'm hoping that one day I'll be able to get a nice camera in order to take much better-quality photos.  I call the photo series "Daily Life."  

Studies

Now that I'm out of school for the time being, I don't have access to a scanner right now.  This sucks because I can only upload digital work now, but luckily half of my work is done in Photoshop anyway.  I'm trying to do the 100 things challenge right now and draw 100 heads and 100 figures by the first week of June, along with planning out my new personal projects and doing the typical studies.  Here are a few studies I've done in the past couple days; now back to drawing!

More Storyboards

This is the rest of the work for my Drawing class final project; I just wanted to do a few conceptual things from Hansel and Gretel (an illustration, concepts for a character, and storyboards from a scene in the story).  These are all things that I haven't done much before, so I really learned a good bit.  I'm hoping to do more work like this in the future for other fairy tales / myths.

Storyboarding

As part of my Hansel and Gretel condensed project, I did a short storyboard (four panels), and it was my first attempt at making a storyboard.  I found it really enjoyable, though not as easy as I thought it would be at first.  I think that making storyboards more often will really help me out overall with narrative and composition in anything that I make. 

I should have more work up from Hansel and Gretel soon, such as character concepts for Hansel and more storyboards perhaps.

MAD festival entries

Here are my entries for the WV MAD Festival here at my school.  One is the witch from Hansel and Gretel, and the other is Oberon from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Taking on Hansel & Gretel

Here are a few new things: a photo study, a study of my planar head cast, a Tron photo study, and some designs for Hansel and Gretel.  For my Drawing IV class I'm doing designs for Hansel and Gretel.  Here's a cover illustration I'm working on for the story and some rough concepts for Hansel to start things off.