Thursday, May 21, 2009

More Orchid Sketches




Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Orchid Drawing

Here is an orchid drawing that I finished today.

Monday, April 6, 2009

The Design Process - Jungle Illustration

I know I haven't posted in awhile, but hopefully this one will be fun and show you some of my design process as I work on a project for a client. Below is the different phases I went through when creating a wrap around cover for a children's magazine.

This first sketch is the one I created for this "Jungle" themed cover:

The clients liked this cover but had a few suggestions. They had changed their masthead so I needed to adjust the image to better fit the text. They also wanted the girl to be younger and for me to add in some additional animals other than just monkeys. So I did this sketch:

I feel like this was the strongest sketch for this project. But for some unknown reason the client decided they wanted to completely change the front cover image. Instead of having a girl swinging through the jungle they wanted a girl sitting on a branch drawing the animals. They also asked me to change her ethnicity. So I created this sketch:

This is the sketch we moved forward with. Below is a quick color study I did in Photoshop:

The client asked me to lighten up some of the background colors and we moved forward to the final painting. Here it is:

This cover will be on Newsstands in the summer. Look for it!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Merry Cheese-Mas

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Pheonix Tattoo

This is a tattoo design I created in adobe illustrator as the final project for my class. The project was supposed to illustrate (in tattoo style) how tattoos can tell life stories.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Simply Thai Logo

This is the final logo for a Thai Restaurant.

Soup!

This was an in -class project that we did, and I thought it turned out kinda fun.