Thursday, February 25, 2010

Rick Court



And here is my blog entry for Rick Court

He mentioned in his blog that he used to play at a chestnut tree, and then it burned down...and that site just happened to become Mohawk College in which he now is the Dean of.

So this is kinda like... 'Vision' is what i'd like to call it...where you have the tree, the tree in flames and then mohawk college bringing up the rear....and i would like to mention, the school in the picture.... its a love hate relationship with me... i love how it turned out...but hated the time it took to get it look just right...lol

and if you want to see the pictures individually, just click below (the tree and the school are 2 separate pictures i made and just overlay'd them together)

Click Here to see school

Click here to see the tree

Saturday, February 20, 2010

propagate...I.F.

Well...

the first thing i found when i googled propagate, was artificial reproduction. soooo instantly my sick and twisted mind's wheels started turning at a feverish pace...

something that can reproduce artificially...

i like having fun with this, so i decided to go with something that CANT reproduce...so if it ever did - would ONLY be by artificial means!

SO i went with gummy bears since my daughter was chewing on some...so i was originally going to do gummy bear with a gummy worm, or something else...but...then i thought about a gummy hamburger... everything just kinda fell into place after that and here you have it...

enjoy :)

ps- i would like to thank my mom who blackmailed my dad into driving into town to buy me a new bag of gummy bears to work from when the munchkin ate my models!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

"Adrift" - Illustration Friday

HELLO!!!! HI THERE!! HEY!! YooHoo!!!

This is my illustration for Illustration Friday's 'Adrift'...

Now i must say, i had entirely WAY too much fun doing this >.<



Pretty neat-o, eh? Well.... I did say up there that i had lots of fun with this... because i basically have 15 hidden things in this picture...yes, a couple are kinda obvious, but others are pretty hard to find!

Here; i'll even tell you what to look for, see if you can find them! Ill post a screenshot below of everything if you give up!

- 12 people
- 1 Coke logo
- 1 LifeBoat
- 1 Seamonster

Happy Searching!

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Given Up? Okies! well here is the screenies of where everything is hidden :)




And that would be the Seamonster... he is in the top left of the bottle




And there is 8 of the 12 people, these ones are jumping/falling overboard



And the rest of the people are running around the boat...here are a couple of them!




And here is the Coke Logo...its on the bottle...and if any of you noticed; the bottle is actually based off a coke bottle >.<




Here is #15....the boat...the boat is in the bottle still...poor thing has been left behind by the ship... i know its not exactly 'hidden' but i considered it hidden because its not noticeable at first glance!

Hope you enjoyed! :)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Tigers



Well, I (probably) enjoyed the tigers for 'muddy' entirely way too much, and so much so that i went and did some more tiger pictures in Photoshop CS3.

How? For the most part, i just google such things as 'Cats Playing" or "crazy cats"...etc etc and get some fun poses and mix and match them together and there we go. Put the pictures in photoshop as its own layer. Add another and trace it out in red and change it around and basically sketch it - yes, i sketch in red lol. then once its where i like it; i pull up the saturation menu and make it go all black and clean up the lines finally. Then (cause tigers have stripes) make a stripe layer, then colour it. To keep the colours accurate to a tiger, i have 2 pictures of real tigers that i pull the colours and some stripe patterns from. Make a background and there ya have it!

Anyhoo...here are 3 tigers i have done in the last 4 days. And the one with 2 tigers dancing together (actually mirrored if you didnt notice, they are the same one just reversed...lol) the background is real, i didnt make that. its just a patio stone picture i found...just thought the colours kinda matched well with the tigers i thought.




Saturday, February 6, 2010

Illustration Friday - 'Muddy'




Hello! Here is my Illustration for Illustration Friday's "Muddy" Submission!

I think its rather cute and funny, but you be the judge, whatcha think?

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Cereal Box Ad

Hello!

Here is my Cereal Box Rough sketch.



And here is the Colour Comp...




Now...i liked the idea of the junk pile, but i thought it was just too much...but i did enjoy making it, was a lot of fun leaning the statue of liberty off a small kitten...lol here is a close up of the junk pile on the clipping room floor..



And here is my final version without the junk pile...just the cowboy turning his back on his horse to indulge in the cereal... no beans tonight!

"Focused" - Illustration Friday


Hello!!

Here is this weeks illustration of "Focused" for Illustration Friday (as you have already read in the title...). I really wanted to do something amusing for my design; originally i was going to do a golfer (ie: Tiger Woods or Arnold Palmer) with the head of spiderman or batman... but while i was looking for a golfing pose on google; i saw a picture of a man playing pool and i remembered hearing my dad chant 'focus' over and over again when he would break the balls... so thats why this is now spiderman playing pool...lol.