Drawings

And to pick things up again, here are some drawings.

Clint-
'Wrap your arms around the one you love'
Charles Bukowski-
Elvis-
Two Topless People

all pencil, and caligraphic nib pen

Had to photograph them since I don't have the same access to a flatbed scanner as I do during the school year, so they're a little fuzzy.

More to come.

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People of Interest

Pencil, ballpoint pen, india ink, and acrylic red ink

Jack White Portrait

Just finished this portrait of Jack White.

I put the decorative type in as kind of a trial. Might try and work it into a Band poster and hand draw the type. Try to emulate some floral embroidery on the jacket.

Kinda like it though.

Spoon Monster

Forgot about this illustration I did a while back for fun, or it might have been an assignment, can't remember. Anyways, Britt Daniels, Jim James, and M Ward

Red in The Back

One of the basics of color theory is that cool-colors recede, while warm ones move towards the foreground. Sometimes I like to switch it up and use a really warm color in the background. The result can be really interesting, especially when it's only linework.

Christian Bale,

pen, pencil, ink

moleskin

Young Proust

Found a really old reference of the infamous writer, Proust, as a young boy.

I decided to do the drawing on old book paper, (torn out of an old Tao teaching book) to give the illustration more authenticity.

He's wearing a great big scarf in the photo, which I added some digital color to.

Georgia Straight Cover

This was an assignment from earlier on in the term. The brief asked to illustrate a cover based on once of two articles; the first being in support of the Olympics and the second being against.

At the time, (the assignment took place pre Van 2010) I was compelled to illustrate the negative side to the Olympics. It just seemed to have more interesting visuals, plus we had just finished a similar assignment illustrating Olympic events and I was getting tired of drawing athletes.

The concept was to show a Vancouverite in a medieval stalk with holes lining up with the Olympic rings. Initially I had the figure contorted in such a way that his ankles also were in the stalk, but the body looked extremely– weird.

I thought the execution was OK, but this was early in the year and I hadn't much experience in Illustrator, so I guess I'll go easy on myself.

This is So Fun

Here's another piece taken out of my moleskin and colored digitally in illustrator. I think I used a reference of a BSC group member, but I can't remember. Not Kevin Drew, or Jason Collett. Can't remember.
I'm still unsure whether I prefer the original to the digital whenever I color something out of my sketchbook. I think it's kind of like buying an album from iTunes vs. a record shop. Tangible vs. intangible. Either way, I'm having a blast doing it.

Exit 22 Theatre Posters

These aren't quite finished, but I thought I'd post them anyways.

Elliot Smith / Cy

Such a sad story. I'm definitely guilty of liking the hell out of his music. Every so often nothing beats a self indulgent pitty party, some elliott smith, and a coffee on a rainy day. And in juxtaposition, the coolest nephew ever! Cy Guy

Clutch

BlahBlahBlah, I liked this woman's gesture and her slightness, blah blah.

a hobbit – I hope

using a reference of Beck on my poster of the hobbit. he's kind of got the look, and I was mostly after the lighting and his expression. now I have to work it out in illustrator

Royal Tennenbaum

One of my favourite movies, I did this from a sketch in my moleskin, just trying to figure out coloring in illustrator

Passport Canada

Sketched this man yesterday morning at the Passport Canada office. I realized my passport had expired and had to rush to have it renewed in time for a trip to NY in May. I got to the Sinclair Center at 7:40am – ten minutes after the office opened – and still waited over an hour!

Book Jacket and Magazine mockups

Here's a book jacket redesign for James Joyces novel, Dubliners. Also, a mockup for the Coupland article I posted previously. The last of the three Coupland photos shows how the viewer would interact with the article to learn about Coupland's career.

'Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it's all over much too soon' – Woody Allen

Quickly scribbled in Illustrator.

Lovely Seagull

Alfred Hitchcock – pen and ink, digitally colored in Illustrator
colors are a little different in the jpeg version not sure why