Rendering

These are both paintings done using the exact picture reference, they are not finished yet, but this is what i have so far, the pictures are from national geographic.

and the scanner makes the mongolian man look really weird.

Pointing Hand

Merry Christmas

This is the third assignment for general illustration

We had to do a holiday postcard

I did Santa claus holding baby Jesus =)

it's suppose to look like those old pre-renaissance paintings of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus.

I made postcards of this illustration. (yay!) If anybody wants one I need your address.

On Language

This is the second project for general illustration.

The assignment was to illustrate an article about language. The article talked about how other languages compared to the english language are more descriptive and vivid. The article used the example of the japanese language and how they have words for sounds and emotions that the english language does not, like for example for a person that is mad in japan they are called a kan kan. "kan kan" is the sound of boiling water in japan. Its the sound a tea kettle makes when the water boils therefore if someone is mad they are called a kan kan. The japanese language has other words that take the place of sounds.

So, for this illustration which is 8 x 10 I illustrated an angry business man with a tea kettle for a head since he is mad like a kan kan. He is also wearing a cape made out of the english alphabet. His mad because he cant understand since he is limited by the english language. So his destroying the town made out of blocks of different languages, chinese, japanese and german. Also the people running away from all the chaos if you look closely at their ties, they have the japanese characters for the sounds of screaming like "AHHHHH" and "AH AH AH"

and its raining, the rain also makes a sound the character for that sound is on the umbrellas.

overall this is one of my favorite illustrations I have done.

Disney illustration

This was the first project for general illustration.

we had to illustrate a sentence for disney's 50th anniversary.

The sentence for the big illustration went something like this....."when disneyland first opened they had a lake in which you could fish but it eventually closed down because no one wanted to carry fish around all day."

so in my illustration I made a little kid happy as can be carrying this huge fish, while the other two adults in the back don't look so happy.

and for the two smaller spot illustrations I did space mountain, and a carousel.

This tree

This is another pan's labyrinth inspired drawing,done in micron pen.

Design with Type

A project for Design with type class, I had to illustrate and article about Alain Robert, the french man who climbs buildings.

he is now climbing into outer space, buildings are not enough.