Here's a handful of the preliminary work for some of my editorial pieces.
Digital
Drogba
Here's a vector illustration of a barbarian character I recently came up with.
Bill Burning Possum Illustration
Here is an illustration assignment incorporating three things we were told by another classmate. Mine were possums, hiking in the woods, and an utter hatred for paying bills.
Frightful Foxes Licensing Preview
Here’s another preview to my licensing collections. This one was focused on a Halloween card set and is made up of four different monster foxes. Here we have the monster of Franken-fox and the whole set also contains a vampire, mummy, and a witch. I tried to incorporate a really corny way of saying Happy Halloween that correlated with the characters. I do plan on making these cards and selling the set myself so keep an eye out for those!
Creature of the Black Lagoon Vector Portrait
For this assignment we had to find a good portrait of a movie monster and recreate it in vector using the pen tool in Illustrator. I chose to do the Gill-man from "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" for mine and after about 20 hours of work came out with the portrait below. It seemed almost too fitting to include the Japanese sun pattern behind him being how he could just as easily have come from a Godzilla movie.
Excalibur
For my Illustration class we were given the assignment to accurately illustrate a line or two from a book so I went with "The Legend of King Arthur and his Knights" by Sir James Knolwes. My exact quote (which I went with the second part of the quote) was... "At that, King Lot ran furiously at him, and smote him down, but rising straightway, and being set on horseback, he drew his sword Excalibur that he had gained by Merlin from the Lady of the Lake, which, shining brightly as the light from thirty torches, dazzled the eyes of his enemies.”
This piece was done completely digital (minus the initial line work) in Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. I wanted to go with a graphic feel to this one, while rendering the main figures in the foreground to make them pop out. My love for Alphonse Mucha really seemed to come out with this piece and I really enjoy the mixture of graphic and painterly elements.
Crabby Gladiator
It's a crab-bunny gladiator...there isn't much else to say.
Steve Zissou and Fight Club Screen Caps
Here are a couple of screen caps I've finished with my new wacom tablet. The first of of Bill Murray's character, Steve Zissou, from the Life Aquatic and the other is of Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter's characters in Fight Club. Both were done in Photoshop.