This is my Pastiche I made after Artist and Designer (and probably my favorite artist right now) Christopher Cox. The assignment was to choose an artist and emulate their style. Chris doesn’t have just one style. He does everything! He does illustrations, political posters, apparel design, typography… you name it, he’s probably dabbled in it. I first came across Chris in a magazine called Computer Arts. He had been featured for some of his more colorful painted looking work. I was so inspired by the paint splattered face that I made my own piece called Inspire. I made my own splatters from watercolor and scanned them in and fiddled with them, then added in my own eye and the twin peaks tower from San Francisco that I took as well. I have used that image in several pieces including my mac catalog cover.
My pastiche however is based off some of his other print work. He does a series of halftone women, or parts of women (usually eyes and lips are dominant) combined with a bunch of geometric shapes, lines, dots and colors. I like how it turned out for the most part. As my teacher said, “lose the key”. Haha.
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Definitely go check out his stuff at Changethethought.com.
For Digital Illustration
This is my Mandala Inspired after Catalina Estrada’s mandala. I saw it in one of my favorite books called Illustration Now! vol. 2. I may come back to this later and add more. It doesn’t quite feel crazy enough to me.
This was the first piece in my Advanced image manipulation class. We had to illustrate a word and do a composite. My word was “Decay”. I originally had a dying tree where the girl was and the girl was coming out of it, but it seemed too busy. The concept might be lost but I was going for “the essence” of the building is leaving because it’s dead. I used atleast 7 images in this.
Stock resources are named here
This was a project for my concept design class. The goal was to illustrate one object out of a list (I chose fish) in five different connotations in five different mediums. My first fish was a “child like fish”. My original idea was using crafts to make my fish. I thought putting together a seaquin fish would be fun. It was something I would have done when I was younger. It turned out so well that it wasn’t believable that a child did it because it was so neat.. go figure.
Next was my Harsh connotation. I thought of this really ugly brown color for a fish and decided that I should do it in watercolor and play with smudging it up. Again, it turned out so nicely, and so “cute” that it didn’t look harsh enough. According to my teacher, “In the land of cute fish, this is the harsh one, but it is still cute”
This is my whimsical fish. I tried to create motion witht eh blurry tail and fin, but it was not as successful as I would have liked. I still like the overall image except for the blue. I think it isn’t working the way it is right now. If anything this connotation is probably “quirky” because I intentionally left the other fin out because it was looking funny but now he looks like a one finned fish with big googly eyes.
And Lastly here is my corporate fish. The feed back on this one was that everyone in the class could see it, but my teacher couldn’t. He said it wasn’t visible enough. I still think I got a few good little illustrations out of it, even if it wasn’t exactly what he was looking for.
