Book Cover Illustration

This is my final book cover illustration. I chose to paint a red strokey (word?) background behind my typographic mockingbird to bring contrast to the stark black words to create a feeling of tension and anger, since these are main themes in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. Although this illustration didn't take more than a couple hours, I am still happy with the result. I wanted the illustration to seem very simple to the viewer, while actually having some typographic complexity to illustrate.

Book Cover Marker Comp

Here is my marker comp for a book cover for To Kill A Mockingbird. I wanted to illustrate a bird using typography of themes shown throughout the book. This is my marker comp. The bird will be placed in the center of the book cover and the background will be red and textured.

Illustration Final Portfolio

For the world record illustration, I chose to illustrate Thumbelina, the world's smallest horse, using gouache. I think the illustration turned out pretty well, and I am pleased with how the text fit into the design. (I meant to do that, by the way!)

To illustrate a fresh classic book cover, I decided to do a typographic mockingbird for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The cover turned out like I planned: a very stark black contrast in the words to the "blood-red" background.

For the sound illustration, I wanted to illustrate the sound of an elevator arriving on a floor. "DING!" I really like how it ended up turning out; I like the Steak N Shake feel.

When illustrating the DMV cartoon, I wanted to illustrate a girl crying her eyes out because she just failed her driver's test. After having issues with getting the DMV man, Bill's facial expression where I wanted it, I think it ended up turning out well. This cartoon took somewhere around 5.5 hours.

For the conversation illustration, I chose to illustrate a young boy naming all of the parts of a combine to older adults. To get the childlike feel across I put some lined paper with childish writing on it behind the toy combine. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. I like the movement created by the hands pointing in different directions. This illustration took me approximately 9 hours to finish, and was colored using some photoshop brushing and scanned in crayon.

This is my Cheesy Illustration. I really did enjoy planning all of the masking, however I did not enjoy actually going through the masking and airbrushing! I'm really happy with the way it turned out though. My airbrush was a little wet, but in the end I think it turned out fine. Altogether, "Cheesy" took me around 16 hours. WOW! That's almost a day.For the product illustration, I wanted to do a pepsi can with someone holding it up as if they're admiring it. I like the way the highlights look on the can, and am really happy with the way it turned out, especially with it being one of my first attempts at gouache. The product illustration took around 7 hours to complete.

This was our first exercise with gouache. I was really pleased with my first attempt at gouache! (I didn't realize that it only got harder from then on!) I was especially happy with the wrinkles on the shirt and the legs. This illustration took around 7.5 hours to complete.

Missouri Postcard

I chose to illustrate the 8-ball water tower that can be found in Tipton, Missouri for my Missouri postcard.

Sound Illustration Final

This is my final sound illustration using watercolor. I chose to create the "sound waves" as almost perfect circles without breaks because the ding of an elevator doesn't really echo; it's more of a quick, sharp ring, hence the geometric form I gave the sound waves.

World Record Final

Here is my World Record poster. I chose to inform viewers about Thumbelina, the world's smallest horse.

World Record Gouache

This is the gouached up version of my world record illustration for the world's smallest horse, Thumbelina. There was probably a total of 8 hours spent on this. Next, we have to make a poster using our illustration, informing viewers of the world record.