wow, i never work this fast!

the question is should i do the toxic olympic symbol or not? i just don't know if it reads well without it. the saturation is poor in the second, bad lighting...

olympic pollution process

hey, haven't posted here in a while. the current project for the illustrobots group is an illustration commenting on the air quality problems in beijing during the olympics. it's a great assignment, and i think we're going to have a record setting turn out for the group! i'm going to attempt to show process a bit, but this is going to be a little unconventional for me since i really don't feel like painting this one. part of the assignment is to use limited palette; black, white, and one other color. it's just too tempting to leave this to drawing and line work! but here's where i'm at so far, the initial sketch, and then where i'm at right now with the finish...

i've been busy workin on the finish of the bug promo!

and now the end is in sight! thought i would update this lame blog and post pics of the promo book, which is almost ready to send out! i don't know why i always do this shit by hand - next one i swear i will have professionally done! it's getting to be a bit of a waste of time and energy... i made 'em accordion style, but have a sticker at the bottom to hold it together, which can easily be removed to see all of the work. hope art director's take the time to look at this, let alone remove the sticker!

Who killed Hugh .. Finish

Hey - it's been a while since I posted on this, and i have a few updates!  First is the Hugh Killer Flop.  I was experimenting with something new, and it didn't quite work out for me.  I also finished another one for the bug book (not happy with it).  Just one more to go and then I have to go through and write text, and fix the girl and the iguana so they look more consistent throughout the book.  Here's also a new sketch for my assignment for Illustrobots - to do a sake ad.  I have big fish in mine, and no people, very strange.  I just got back from NY ICON5, and that is why I haven't posted in a while.  Just super busy....

hugh killer...

this deadline was extended for a week, so a procrastinated of course...  here is the almost finished drawing - i'm probably going to take this one further as a drawing and do less color.  i also changed the composition a bit, put all of the figures in the back rather than having the one kneeling closer as well.

who killed hugh?

This is the newest assignment for Illustrobots - we could choose to do a cover for either a sci/fi, fantasy, romance or crime noir book.  We pretty much had complete freedom on what we wanted to draw, which always proves to be difficult for me.  I prefer direction, it's why I chose this field!  Anyways, I just thought about what I wanted to draw, and that happened to be playboy bunnies.  Soooo I came up with a kind of crime noir related murder mystery.  One of the playmates has killed Hugh, but which on and what was the motive??? This is the sketch, pretty much the worst drawing I think I've get posted, still playing with the size of the figures in the composition.  In the finish I think I will have the girl closest to us have her head down, maybe just see kind of a sinister smile on her face or something like that - I want them to be anonymous.  

A Real Doll - finish

I don't really know if I care for this one; it was met with great disappointment by the Illustrobots crew (all 3 + me) that showed up for the crit.  They apparently really, REALLY, wanted to see the Ken's bump wallpaper, so if I have time this week I might amend it.  Time to get to work on the finish of the spider...