Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Diversionary Tactics.

Honestly, I think that robot would hit its own antenna every time it fires its old-timey revolver. Still, I hear the NRA is interested in further development.
Been trying to replace that self-portrait in the upper corner for a while now. This is about as good it's gettin', folks.
Virot, like Hitchcock, prefers to stand in slightly aloof profile.
Toot.
The one on the left was drawn a meager fifteen seconds before the one on the right. During that brief moment, all my volumes went to pot.
Drawing my left hand is much easier than drawing my right.
Whenever my paintings get particularly complex, my sketches tend to get pretty simple.
Using Staedler Calligraph Pen here. Rather like the hair.
My London Guide, an English Professor, called this 'interesting.' She pronounced the quotation marks. I think she just wishes she had a robot.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Angnor-ance and the Doomsday Clock.





I did these, like, a long time ago, but they needed some help. 
 
The first three are from my cryptically named, oddly violent, and sporadically verbomaniacal "children's" book "The Knights of Angnor." It's about trolls, knights, bridges, ferrets, and the upside of deforestation.
 
The last is a black and white take on the Man, Woman, Bird, Dog, and Banana in a room assignment, which is about exactly what you would think. I have no idea what the story actually is in this scene. I just know that he hates that fire so, so much.
 
In other news, it's four days until the Senior Show, which promises to be a tapestry thrillingly interwoven with failure and delight. With almost four years over, it's time to take stock. And print. One must always be printing.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The Big Ben.


Following the London pilgrimage, the group is making a book. As the Resident Illustration Buddy, I volunteered to paint the cover. It's done in Painter, a program that allows me to paint when I don't feel like moving four feet to my left to my actual work desk.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

The Big Chill

Two things:

1) We lost the bid for Costner's logo. This is not particularly surprising, given the studio's stated preference for a competitor's work early on in the process. So it goes.

2) I won't be adding anymore of my Illustration projects to this blog until they're finished, which, by the grim, ineluctable hand of fate will be in two weeks regardless of, well, anything. I may try to post some sketch book stuff in the meantime.

Wish me luck, all. To my illustration comrades:  this will be our finest hour. Or a bunch of pretty okay days, more than likely. Godspeed.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Colonel Kurtz

Found this artifact nestled between strata of ancient projects earlier. Way back in High School, I made my first stab at Archetype, back when it was called Archetype: Precursor, which is sort of a really terrible name for something that isn't a prequel of any kind. This scene contains a really early version of Tapaesan Isuko, right, and his sister, who may or may not have had a name at one point in history. She was later written out of the story for having terrifying hot dog fingers.
 
I am not certain how Tapaesan's hair works. Presumably, he must staple the side bits on.

(the horror...)

Perfect Attendance

All fourteen of my illustra-doodles for the Illustration project. These are irrationally fun to make.
 
 

(For the last time, he isn't a robot. Not even a little bit.)
 
(This guy has a squid for a hat. Fashionable.)
 
(Kids, smoking isn't cool.)