Illustration Friday: Messenger

I haven't been doing too much while home for break sadly. Here's my second attempt at doing an illustration friday assignmt. Unfortately I'm using a scanner thats really not made for documents, and I don't have photoshop on this computer, but here it is despite everything!

The Messenger of the Alps! 

Merry Christmas!

Illustartion Friday

So this is my entry for this past weeks Illustration Friday's theme: Sink

Thesis

Here is a selection of work I did for my senior thesis class this semester.
This is coffee connoisseur:

 This is an editorial piece about the effects of coffee on the brain:

Also an editorial piece for an article about how Scandinavian countries drink the most coffee:

Les Miserables

Poster design for Les Miserables! Yay working with text!

Cyberbullying an Editorial Illustration.

So this is from the beginning of the semester and I am really behind on scanning and updating.

Character Battle

Crazy Catlady! Follow my character as it competes in the 2011 character tournament at

King of the Ill. 

Some random doodles project

        

Collages!

These are some fun collage creatures I did over the semester. I was thinking of doing my thesis project in a similar  fashion, but my panel really wants me to stick to watercolor and ink. Anyway, these are fun and I plan to do more of them over vacation! 

Final

To change things up, I did three collages for my illustration finals. I wanted these to be about technology and nature, but mostly I just wanted to collage with computer parts =]

Jabberwocky

This was an illustration of the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carol. The assignment was about creature/setting design. I love this assignment and finishing this piece took me most of the semester. It was worth it though! 

It's time to fly!

This is probably my most favorite piece I've done for Illustration IV. Its was a ad for United's Time to Fly campaign. This is just a man with a boring life who has thoughts of falling in love on Paris on the back of his mind.

My thesis project for the fall is going to be similar to this idea, in which I want to do more slice of life Illustrations.

Vespa Designs

These were my Vespa Decal Designs done for my Illustration IV class. It was a draw whatever you wanted project, so I did these spider creatures marching along.  

Fantastic Mr. Fox

This is my cover and end papers for Roald Dahl's  Fantastic Mr. Fox.  I used colored and pencil and gamsol and water color over it. The colored pencil gave the water color a very grainy texture and it helped me with contrast, which is a problem I have alot in my work. 

Witch

This is a piece I did in the fall for my Illustration III class. It was a breakthrough for me because I used watercolor and ink how I wanted to use it. This became a direction for me to take my illustration.

Collages!

These are three peices that I created for Painting II: Collage projects. This class was great for me because it really allowed for me to open up and experiment.

Above is my final. I really tried to open up my color palette. I also have become very interested in playing with circles.

Coffee filters! These two projects were about my experimentation with coffee filters, book pages and working drawings into my collages.