Heeeere's a bunch of sketches! For our character design final we all had to develop the world of the Jabberwock! It's super exciting - yet another thing that's really close to my heart. My siblings and I used to put on plays and puppet shows, and this poem was one of them, so I decided to base my concepts on my family. The Beamish Boy is much like my brother when he was a lad, and the Mother/narrator/queen is certainly based on my own mom. Finals for this will be uploaded soon!
Another editorial piece. I'm still getting the hang of doing this kind of work because it's something I never really thought about before! It was intended to be a political spot and I ended up choosing this topic because I thought the imagery would be fun to draw but, while it was, I think the basic idea got really lost. Oh well, practice practice practice!!
Remember Mr. Dead Taxi Driver? Here are some of his passengers. The first were lovers in a circus, murdered by a jealous sword-swallower. What a jerk! The second is a gruff rich fellow who lived alone in the mountains with only his chihuahua, who he spent all of his money doting on. They died together after he runs out of the shower to save it from the freezing winter weather.
Oh man, I dug this assignment so much. Everyone received a musical decade between the 50's-80's from which to design a band... and luckily, I got the latter. I desperately wanted to draw knights, and warped my band into a bunch of minstrels who, by ritual accident, get warped forward in time to the 1980's and adapt to become a neo-medieval all-girl goth band that takes the musical scene by storm. They're called Knightfall - here's their album cover that I never finished heheh
My first real swing at an editorial assignment, a How-To of our choice! My best friend taught me to fish for crabs when we first met in high school. It's a really special memory!
An exciting assignment in illustration to re-design a pre-existing literary character based purely on their original description and our interpretation of that; shedding all influence of previous incarnations was extremely hard! I chose the Monkey King from the beloved Chinese tale Journey to the West, a story that I was raised with and that has always been prevalent in my life! He's such a thrilling character! And who doesn't want to draw monkeys when given the chance?
Every year MICA has its junior and sophomore illustration students design a poster for their annual Halloween party. This year the theme was based on the film The Shining, which I loved watching but I don't know about how it'll fare as a party theme (we'll see I guess!)
A friend of mine did a trade with me and I got to draw two characters from her webcomic Goalkeeper!! It's very cute, give it a read!
Here is his gear. That driver's badge/eyeball looks in the direction he's supposed to go (a sassy little compass, basically.)
