Monday, February 24, 2014



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.

16 comments:

  1. really diggin the last one. looks like he had a rough night.

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  2. For me, I like the second cover. The concept of Deep Thought has always been cool. However, I would have taken the box around the title because the text and BG are complementary colors and would look much better together.

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  3. Second one is my favorite! Perspective, shadowing looks great!

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  4. Nice works! I think the middle one is the coolest nice colors composition and design! The last one has a nice complimentary color design with the eyes and the bed. Well done!

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  5. I really like your scifi remake. It looks really well done and makes me want to watch the movie again! I like the pose for the robot in bed. Awesome. Great job.

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  6. I like your ideas for the covers. And the detail with the trees in the second image is really cool. :)

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  7. I like the second one the best. I thought you did a great job on the trees. But I love all of them, so good job!

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  8. Loved this book and this movie, great imagery and references to the original story..all three covers look good, I guess my favorite would be the third one.. great work..!

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  9. The SiFi cover is awesome. I really like how well the shading was done on the figure. However, I think it is almost on the edge of a children's style SiFi.

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  10. I like the third one, because it looks like he's posing. But the second one has great detail in the shadowing and the trees.

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  11. These are great you did a really good job on all of them, the details are nice and they look well organized. The colors are nice too and I think the mesh tool worked out nicely.

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  12. I never read the book but I did see the movie a while back. I really like the robot illustration.

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  13. I think the spy comedy cover is such a great idea, very funny! The second one is very well done; the colors you chose for the shadows work so well.

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  14. I like the last two you did a good job with the shadows.

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  15. I really like the third one. There's so much detail, especially in the trees, yet there's not so much that it becomes distracting. However, I would use a different highlight design on the 'face,' as the streaks look extremely copy-pasted right now.

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  16. I love the work put into all three, and feel they are well done, but I still don't get the desk in the first cover, and you even explained it to me. I do prefer your second cover, best of the lot, and the third is really funny , great work over all.

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