Sita Character Design

Assignment in Adv. Character Design: I'm part of the group assigned to design characters for an imaginary game about the Ramayana as a space opera. These are some color variations on my interpretation of Sita, Rama's wife. See more concepts HERE

TIME Cover

So my most recent assignment was to redo the cover of TIME's Aug. 30 issue for Concepts. I did Uncle Sam as a crusader, making the link with the medieval hunting of Muslims and connecting that to the question "Is America Islamophobic?" Hope it reads well enough. 11 hours, Photoshop.

Constitution Day Response

So for Constitution Day MICA held a panel about equal marriage rights featuring Dan Savage, Sharon Hayes, and Dr. Kendall Thomas, and moderated by NPR's Aaron Henkin. After attending, I made this piece in response to the issues discussed.

Spacemen

First short in my Sequential Arts class this fall! I like how it turned out. The assignment was to do a four-panel short where the phrase "this isn't going to work" was the only dialogue allowed, and only in one of the four panels. The concept was to portray a certain mood. I had a hell of a time figuring out how to get a decent screentone, and am still amazed that I cannot seem to find actual screentone brushes for photoshop. Inked with a brush, and then colored in CS4.

Tattoo?

Direct linking failed... Here's a small drawing. Originally for practicing painting tattoos, but only after I rendered the skin did I realize that the original resolution was too small to do any fine details, so after a few tries I gave up. I'll just have to learn how to paint tattoos the original way....or the Shawn Barber way? Time will tell.

Concept art: Monster

So here's what I've been working on. A pretty big file, full sized. Here's a smaller preview. I'm pretty happy with how it's going. Sorry for the washed out color, I've figured out what's making that happen, more or less, but haven't yet found a way around it.

Also, I'm totally getting a website made! View my progress HERE
My super awesome friend Robin has been helping me set this up, she's great at webdesign. Let me know if you want her contact info!

Illustration Friday: Breakfast

Hey again people! Just got back from Florida. Here's my (first ever!) submission for this week's IF topic, breakfast. I am beginning to think that maybe I should be calibrating my screen display settings or something, because I am still having this problem where when I upload anything at all (or save as a bmp) my images lose saturation drastically and are dulled down significantly. I'm not terribly torn up about this one though, because it gives the piece a slightly faded, old-timey diner look but NONETHELESS. Someone help me figure this out! Is it CS4? Is it just web colors being web colors? Is it my display settings? Is it something about how I am saving or uploading these images??? Assisstance would be preferred.

Also, comments. Thanks!