cdelaney - Week #7 Favorite Artist = Jean Orlebake

Jean Orlebake

Poster Hunt

So here is the poster I picked, its for the video game 'Fallout 3". While this is not official art for it, it is a great fan production. It has great use of color, and is complex yet simple enough to get the medium across. But also it doesn't look like anything that was either made for the game, or even one that was made to be in the game. As the game has all kinds of poster art scattered though out it. As often games trying to make add to the immersion factor will make all kinds of cool posters that you can see and enjoy. In fallout they are often very humorous.

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Artist of the Week: Doug Chiang

For my artist this week, I chose Doug Chiang. He is the principal concept artist for the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, among other things. I love doing mechanical and science fiction art, and this guy just has one of the awesomest jobs in the field, in my opinion. To see a closeup of a spaceship you designed get blown up on screen, that's gotta be every designer's wet dream. No really it is.
Doug designed many things in the Star Wars movies, two of which I have shown up above. To my knowledge, he did NOT invent Jar Jar Stinks, Midichlorians or "Now THIS is podracing!" So he gets a pass on that.

For the Love of Scottie McMullet

In case anyone is wondering, this is where I got the idea to do a romance novel parody: For the Love of Scottie McMullet.

Weekly Illustration Nail Art

I was researching art history and found this photo.  I loved it.  Mostly because I know how hard it must have been to create this particular kind of art.

Posters Research

Favorite illustration of the week.

Week 6 Blog

I chose a water color piece that I had found on tumblr for my weekly post. Just the overall control of such a fluid medium shows great skill. I'm not quite to sure who made this work, but the craftsmanship of the work in progress is amazing.

The book I chose was The Picture of Dorian Gray. The first cover I made for a children's book, the second cover I was aiming for some kind of (romantic) graphic novel, and the third one is supposed to be for a young adult fiction. For each of these I began with scanned sketches in illustrator and created the basic shapes and lines using mostly the blob brush and the pen tool. I then brought them into photo shop to add more details and texture with the brush tool. 

For the children's book I though it would be cute to have a mini Dorian pouting on the cover holding his ugly drawing. I wanted the style to be very cartoony/something that might draw a kid's eye. For the graphic novel I knew I wanted to keep my color scheme simple and bright. I went the sort of tragic romantic direction with cover, which is a reference to the girl that killed herself after Dorian left her.  For the YA cover I used a more realistic style. I tried to make Dorian all smug and ~dreamy~ looking but I don't know if I've got it yet.  

Week 6 Fave

Just thought this was cool kind of old and modern japan in one image.... :)

Project 2 Book Cover:
 THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
 

 For this cover I wanted to give a children s book feel. with the little wallflower rather than using a wallflower as it was done in the book, I wanted to give it a happy kiddy.

Mainly used blob brush to color in and draw out the flower and objects tried using mostly fun colors with a few hints of neutrals just because I liked the look of it. :)

 So... this is a horror comedy take on the book cover. I kept thinking of south park for some reason and got the idea to do this so i thought it'd be fun .  I used the blob for coloring and the shape tool for the face shape and a few other things. Also line tool and tried to use the basic green shade used in the other book covers for the book. The blood parts were done using blob brush too.

This cover is used for the same Genre of the book. I used both Photoshop and illustrator. Finally got the hang of switching between the two programs. I used the lasso tool to copy and paste all the letters for the title of the book found a typewriter image and used a notebook texture for the background. I wanted to make my own mix tape so I created one in illustrator it was pretty fun to do a few more details could have been added to the mix tape but I think it worked out ok. I used the quote "we are infinite" from the book because I felt it was something that would go well on the cover.

 Quick summary:
   The story of a 15 year old boy starting his first year in high school. His past is filled with some traumas suck as the death of his aunt who, due to a memory block in his mind he forgot had abused his sexually. But he still blamed himself for her death on his birthday when he was younger. And also the suicide of his best friend the year before. Due to his treatment in order to help him cope with everything he is told to write a letter to an unknown person everyday. This basically is a journal of his Freshman year in high school trying to cope with everyday life and also finding a place to which belong too, as well as fight monsters from the past.

It was hard choosing a favorite this week for my weekly illustration, among the 5 new artists I am following there was just so much good stuff, so here are my two seletions for the week.

Project 2 The Great Gatsby

 

For this project I decided to go with The Great Gatsby. I used the blob brush with the entire project. I wanted to go with a sketchy kind of look. The very first book cover is my interpretation of the book. It's really simple depiction of Gatsby and Daisy.
The second is a children's book. In the book Gatsby is trying to win over Daisy with his grand parties and fortune. Gatsby is a magician for everything is an illusion. So I decided to make the characters hide behind costumes. Daisy is a lady bug and Gatsby is an magician.
The third design is a mystery book. I wanted to hide Gatsby's identity so I left him as a silhouette. He is smoking a pipe and inside the smoke is some things that describe his personality.

Weekly Illustration

http://www.brwnpaperbag.com/gizem-vural-illustration/

The book I chose was The Stinky Cheese Man. First one being the remake, second being action, and last being horror. I wasn't too pleased with the way the first one came out. I used the pen tool for all of these. I added textured images for all three. I tried a slightly different style than what I usual do for the last two. effects I used were feather, gradient, inner glow, and outer glow. 

Week 6 Blog

This guy does these amazing animal paintings on hands and I really like them. The zebra is so cute and he has so many more.

Book Covers (Fifty Shades)

Sex Ed

Erotic Romance

 Sci Fi

I decided to choose the book "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". I decided to illustrate a Crime novel (top), Scifi remake (middle), and a Spy/Comedy (bottom). I tried to work on using more cell shading because it is one of my weak points so I tried to push it as much as I could. I used the pen tool and the shape to make most of the parts of the illustrations. Then I used the blob brush and pen tool to draw inside the objects to create the highlights and shadows.

I had some trouble drawing some of the shadows and trying to figure out how the shadows would fall on the objects. I used the mesh tool to to create the table detail on the crime cover and the sheet on the spy/comedy cover.

Here are all three of my Harry Potter Book illustrations. The first one being Sci/Fi Dystopia, Next one being Horror, and the last one being a sports novel. I had to start my entire project over from scratch because I could not get my ideas to work right on screen. it always ended up looking way too cartoony. That's not to say that these don't but compared to what I had at first these blow my first cover designs out of the water.

1st one Dystopia: I don't like repeating stuff much but I did take the Death Eater symbol from the Horror cover and illustrated it to be the main focus in this one. The key is the Design of the snake. There is a silhouette of a battered city in the snakes pattern. Other than that however its hard to tell its genre. I did try my best though.
2nd one Horror: The mask took a while to make but curves were made to perfection with the pen tool in illustrator. I added the eye and it creeped me out so I kept of course. It looks like an alien is behind the mask.
3rd one Sports: This one is pretty straight forward. I like that little annotation and tried to come up with a really cliche sports catch phrase. Like giving %110, all day everyday, all work no play or something like that but decided to stick with this. I like this for its simplicity .

Week 6 Illustration

Weekly Design/Illustration Examples

Ice Climbers and Star Wars! Cool idea and love the characters. Never played the original game but cue the smash bros melee theme!

Romantic Grinch

This version of The Grinch is a romantic version, to make it I drew out the characters on the sleigh and scanned it in, then filled the colors in and added gradient effects to it. The background it mostly pen tool and shapes that I created and used effects and gradients on it. I also painted some things like the trees an the mountains and found vector fireworks and downloaded them to put them in as well.

Weekly Bloggin! :D

Another Weekly Blog upload that I find so very awesome and what i would eventually like my paintings to be come!  More of his work on my blog! http://janewlan.tumblr.com/

Project 3: The Giving Trees'

To begin, the book I chose was The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein.  I went through two process one that I am very familiar with and the other that I had done for the very first time.  Starting with the newest, I did keep my usual coloring in photoshop but tried to match it to the stylization.  I first started with the pen and line tools and worked my way until I was satisfied with an image.  Once there I brough the image into photoshop and colored in areas.  That was the majority of my work for the illustrator.  For the other two, I did want to keep a portfolio based work so I returned to my usual photoshop painterly appeal.  I started off first with a rough line in both of them and then basic colors.  The second image has no photo manipulations in it while the third one does.  I used this to get the buildings to seem more realistic.  To finish the two I went in with heavier painting details.

The three concepts for my redesign were in order: A romantic novel for teenagers, an adventure more medieval kind of setting, and the final a horror scifi style.  The first book I used the tree as sort of a liasion for the two teenagers where I had this idea that they could climb three tree and meet one another secretly.  I think the style of work, work wells for a young teen kind of book as it's very cartoonish and well pleasing to the eye.  For the second book I went with a very large landscape that simple said adventure in the cover.  The distance, silhouetted character really gave a very journey kind of look to it.  For the third one I think it really screams kind of this creepy and horrific scenery.  From the red beam coming from the tree to the dark atmosphere.  In each piece I think the use of color really helps decide what the story is about and helps the viewer decide what the story is about.  The only thing I do not like are the texts in all of them maybe the first one fits kind of well, but other then that I couldn't figure out how to download and add texts into photoshop.  

Week 6

Week 7 Design Interests.

7 yes we are up to week Sleven. Need sleepth, must find bed.

I choose this dude, i know him from Deviant art, he make the logos you see all over the place, problem is, most have been stolen from him and used by @$$monkeies to make money off both his, and companies copyrighted material. Yea chances are high that if you have seen a program, or game icon that looks like this, he made it. His name is Matthais, he is German.

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Week #6 illustration

Week 6 Illustrations

Kind of in love with her hair