Only if for a Night

Only if for a Night

Photoshop CS5.1

I don't know why I feel really awful about uploading this. 

Because I'm going to upload it anyways. Sometimes my brain just works in some really weird ways.

Contest entry for a picture based on the Florence and the Machine song, Only if for a Night. I uploaded the version for the contest without my signature because I'm a smart kid.

I wanted to really focus on the theme of accepting death, but I have this feeling I strayed too far away from the song? I don't know but argh.

argh.

At least the colours turned out really cool, and the sweeping effect turned out okay too.

I need to step away from my comfort zone, this is getting so bad.

Thumbling

My final projects for Illustration Design Principles. basically we had to choose a Grimm fairy tale, take one passage from the story and make four illustrations to describe the passage. I choose Thumbling and illustrated Thumbling's parents find the wolf in their home, the parents confronting said wolf, them realizing Thumbling was inside the wolf and then the wolf cut into pieces and Thumbling emerging from the wolf's body. We were only supposed to bring one scene to a "finished" level, but I really got into the project and decided to do two.

I'm pretty happy with them, I learned a lot about colour with this project as well as creating mood and atmosphere using composition (obviously the course did it's job).

Hope everyone had a great holiday and have a happy new year :D!

Lu the Llama

Spittoon

10" x 13"

Watercolour, gouache and coloured pencils

Illustration board

2011

Last project of the semester for Conceptual Process! Not going to give the specs of the project, but it actually turned out to be pretty fun. 

It's a llama selling spittoons, get it :D

 My linear next to my final:

This was my first time using a linear and I'm not too sure how much I like them. Maybe they'll grow on me? The only part I found relatively helpful was that I could just trace the linear onto my board and it didn't require any extra thinking. But black and white studies just make me so confused about colour. 

And on a side note did you know llamas establish hierarchy through spitting at one another? 

FUN FACT OF THE DAY!

Wicked Fortune Teller

Wicked Fortune Teller

Photoshop CS5.5

2011

I was just thinking about how really good artists/ illustrators not only are fantastic at what they do, but they do such a great job on selling the idea of being an artist. They just make their lives seem so glamourous and cool.

And then I started thinking about if I do that. And I would really like to make people think I live this glorious, design filled beautiful life,

but in reality I look like I've just rolled out of bed, I need some major sleep and I need a haircut.

Probably one of the least glamourous people you can find (especially Fridays at 8am, man that's just bad).

One day I'll make people believe what I'm doing is super spiffy and they'll be like 'MAN HER LIFE MUST BE AWESOME'

and they'll go to art school and make the same realizations.

Procrastination :(

Idk why I'm procrastinating SO HARD on my stupid essays. I just can't write anything meaningful or logical at all :'(

But on a brighter note I just finished my very first illustration-type-thing for school (aw yeah even though it's like the end of semester 1)

I'll leave the interpretations up to you, but I'm hoping you guys get what I wanted them to be because... if your guess is totally wrong then there's a problem...

:|

AND NOW FOR MY CHILDREN

aww see, they love me :') 

I think I have a husky problem. Who needs a dozen cats when you can have tons... and tons... of huskies... 

:|

Weekly Sketches #3

Sorry for the shitty last page, I just don't feel like scanning it again :|

So much dead guys, just so much.

Royal Winter Fair + Sheridan Illustration Merch

I had the chance to go to the Royal Winter Fair yesterday in downtown Toronto with about 12 of my classmates. It had to be the best field trip I've ever been on,  you can't beat 5 hours of straight animal drawing :D

Everyone got their own mini Sheridan Illustration stool (it had Sheridan Illus. on it, I felt so cool ;u; ) and we sat in front of the animals and talked to them (or yelled if they moved, there was a lot of that happening). I tried using different mediums, but it all went back to pencil in the end. Watercolour was SO BAD holy shit now I've got to practice so I don't disgrace myself in public again.

And drawing in public was mildly terrifying. I've creeped people in public before, that doesn't even bother me, but when you're drawing the animals people walk by you and stare over your shoulder,

TOTALLY NERVE-WRACKING. 

But yeah, it was fun and I could've stayed for another couple of hours (next time).

One of my classmates Melissa posted her sketches online too, you should check them out!

And in other news I officially love Sheridan. They had a mini-sale for the fourth year illustration grad show and I bought some stuff. I'm totally going to save money JUST SO I CAN BUY ILLUSTRATION MERCH.

Last years Grad book (so nice, the quality of the printing is beautiful! And the illustrations are okay too :p).

Some Kailey Lang buttons (Melissa grabbed the pair of earrings I was debating on buying, WHY). These things are so cute, like, they melt my heart (even if you can't tell by the photo).

Life's good when you can draw animals and buy really adorable buttons :)