Oops again

Just got home back to JER Z and kinda miserable. Anyway, here is some art for you because I kind of lost my will to live and pretty much everything else

Final proj from Seqa Art....IT TOOK FOREVER

We had to make a 4 page long comic from a professional script instead of doing our last sketchbook assignments, and I proceeded to freak out, as I have never done any pages before EVER (Original script here...first 6 actual pages here [Lienel Yu owned me so hard])

Opening city panel, my word, did it take long. This was my first time ever doing actual Sequential pages, let alone a massive future Tokyo cityscape, so yeah. There are tons of errors in these panels, many of which I didn't have time to fix, but now I know for next time (especially after seeing the actual comic pages). Also, I had the choice whether to do a city scape or a MASSIVE 30-FT TALL SAMURAI WAR DROID ERUPTING OUT OF THE FLOOR needless to say I was very sad because they figured the city would be more of a challenge for me :[

Big character reveal- which happens to be my fav page, this also took forever, and he's not quite standing on that floor, but boy was drawing all those bodies both daunting and fun. My prof liked this page as well (one of my classmates actually noticed the slumped [albeit small] body in the b/g over the couch). Good times. Yay for blood covering up perspective lines I don't wish to draw/figure out! :D

"Oh noes stereotypically named Japanese man, please don't kill me!" Hahaha I hate this page, that levitation sequence was painful to do. The class didn't really like Leinel's interpretation of it either, although that could have been only to make me feel a bit better about the SUCK

Prof like the emotion in panel 4 which made me happy. Up and down extreme perspective=not easy

Onward to stuff I actually care about (lol not really [actually I don't mean that at all])

Final from Illo Markets, Hotels.com and the Norovirus book cover (homage to Kenneth unintentionally here)


And Cut paper illo Final from Techniques II:
Comp andddd final which was a TON of fun

That is all! Please feel free to crit anything to your heart's content :>

Oops

...I haven't updated for a while. Shame on me! Well because of my lack of updating I have a great wealth of art done over the past 3 weeks, so it's a fun time for everyone.

On an awesome note, I had an interview with the amazingly talented and famous illustrator Jon Foster!! Go check out his amazing work! It was an honor and a privilege to be able to speak with such an insightful and down-to-earth person, and he gave a lot of useful advice about entering the field of illustration and make sure doing what you love is truly what you love to do. I would post it, but I don't know if I am allowed to.

In other news, here are like the half-million (yeah right) projects I finished over these weeks:

1. The In Character Magazine cover

This didn't turn out as well as could be with all the hype that was attached to it. My professor seemed to like it a lot, which is good, but as with everything, I could have done better. Playing with the colors was fun. It was better as a stand-alone without the text added, but you know:

And also, the spot illos:


2. Backlit Watercolor


This one should have turned out so much better than it did. That is all.

3. Gouache Secrets

We had to illustrate either secrets or Noah's Ark in gouache, and of course me being me, I choose the secrets. Here's the comp:





And the final:

I liked this one much better than the watercolor, but I still got the same kinds of marks on it as with the previous, and no one said anything about it, like at all, during critique, which was really frustrating because I would, you know, like to improve. I was happy I was able to use the color yellow in a much more desirable way than I imagine the color yellow would be used by me. It was a lot of fun to paint, especially the fabric!

4. Character Design for Sequential Art

This was enjoyable, that is all. She is a female inventor in the Victorian Era, who works as a seamstress by day and sneaks off to try to uphold her father's legacy by inventing things people couldn't even imagine back in those times. She has to fight hard to hide this from her mother and successfully create something without blowing it up (which explains her partial bustle). She sewed those pants herself.



I'll upload the rest when I get to a massive scanner!

Faillustration

Yeah, so my attempts at being clever are laughable at best (and not in the way I would like them to be). In Illustration Markets, we have to do an Editorial Illo for In Character magazine, and of course, I pick the generosity issue, who's cover I cannot top:

It's unfairly perfect. Like, that's EXACTLY what generosity is! What am I supposed to come up with now? So here's my fail cover (partially scanned because I don't have a large format scanner and I'm too lazy to piece together a mere comp/sketch):

I was kinda feeling okay about it.....

Okay so I thought it was a good cover that got to the point, but my senses are obviously skewed when I saw that my professor really wasn't feeling it, and I understood why: It just gives too much information. It's not at all clever (much like me), and so I need to figure out another angle. He did like the hands though, he wants me to keep them.

This one, however, he loved and wants me to keep.

It's about tithing (giving 10 percent of your income to the church) . There was a passage that regarded it as a spiritual investment that ensured money, health, or well-being.

I need to figure out how to illustrate generosity.