1/31/10

Style Buddies Revisited

Slightly more exciting than the last crew...

1/26/10

Fashion within Location: Sketches






For my fashion illustration class we were to choose an environment and then create illustrations featuring apparel from existing designer lines that somehow echoed or meshed with the location we selected. The articles in these sketches come from a variety of lines from different seasons, some of which include Alexander McQueen, Armani, and Stella McCartney. The final two illustrations will be posted hopefully this weekend...


1/24/10

Style Buddies!


I'll be dressing up these peeps every week for my fashion illustration class.

1/23/10

Sketches for Elijah




The Blue Lake International Youth Symphony and Choir is performing Mendelssohn's Elijah this summer at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, and Carol Tice (the art director at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp) commissioned me to sketch up some mural ideas. Three panels featuring scenes/themes from the Old Testament story of the prophet Elijah will be painted by youth in the Ann Arbor area and displayed for the musical performance. I attended BLFAC for camp as a middle schooler, and worked as a counselor this past summer, so this project has a special meaning to me. The colors and compositions are of course subject to change--while I may be getting back to Michigan in time to help the kids paint, it's likely these sketches will serve more as a guideline for inspiration rather than a rigid map for the murals. I also have versions of these sketches with embellished borders featuring patterns and images, but personally I feel like they clutter the composition too much. I'm giving both versions to Carol and letting her make the call.

For those who are unfamiliar with the story of Elijah, in the panels I've illustrated a few major scenes of his time on Earth: the first shows Elijah being fed by ravens when there is a drought in the land of Isreal following Elijah's confrontation with King Ahab regarding the worship of both God and the idol Baal. The second panel is the depiction of the "face-off" between Elijah and Ahab to reveal the true God (both make sacrifices to their gods but only Elijah's altar is consumed in fire from the heavens. After this the drought ends, and a series of other events happen before Elijah ascends into heaven on a chariot of fire (last panel, also my favorite of the three)

I'm still working on the superhero pieces; the coloring is taking longer than expected. Also it's the first week of school and my professors have wasted no time piling on the homework!



1/17/10

Deadpool-Stage I

Still need to do a little cleaning up on this one, but the drawing stage is over and now the painting begins!

1/11/10

Superhero Series--Rorschach and Batman (Stage I)





Here are two of the four portraits of superheroes in a series that my older brother has commissioned for his office and apartment in Seattle. I'm planning on doing the coloring in Photoshop--final images will be 11x14 and be displayed in float frames. Here's Rorschach from Watchmen and Batman; Deadpool and Captain America soon to follow!