Kristine
These are my original pencil thumbnails for the book cover. I had lots of different ideas and went with the rat in the door 101 for the book 1984. I originally had the rat at the door and you were looking at the room from the rat's perspective. Then Rusty suggested having the perspective be from inside the room and seeing the back of the rat. I ended up doing a dark room that you can see the rat in the light of the hallway.
This is the final painting before I put it into InDesign. I took it into Photoshop after I scanned the image to straighten out the lines of the perspective since I did it on water color paper and it had wrinkled. I also adjusted the coloring a little to make it like the original illustration.
I think the thing that I had the hardest time with was the perspective being off once scanned into the computer. I also double and triple checked to make sure that the perspectives were correct, especially with the door being open and the window reflecting on the floor. I did many different pencil version to make sure it looked right.
This is what I used for my final print out for the book cover. I took it into Indesign and created the title and authors name by using multiple layers of text with different effects and color transparencies until I got it the way I wanted so it kind of blended into the wall and was almost not visible. I also put a red transparency on top of the painting because I liked the tint that it gave the painting.
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My thumb nails. I had a few different ideas for sound illustrations. The class really liked the humming of the refrigerator, but I really liked the idea of the sound of silence.
Once I decided on the idea I made this pencil com with all of the hands spelling out silence in sign language.
These are my two colored comps. Someone suggested raising the s above the other hands to make it look like it was a capital letter. I originally did the colored comp as all the same hand and then when we had to do a second one I decided to change the races of the skin. I liked the idea of d
oing a black background to add to the silence, and because I liked painting on the black board so much, and because I had so much left over from the postcard.
I did have a little problem counting with the second marker comp, can you find the extra finger? Just remember Rusty I'm not discriminating against digits!
This is my final painting of the sound of silence. I used gouache and some colored pencil to add in some more colors and do some more blending. I like the way the final turned out except I don't know why I choose to use the color I did on the L because I don't know of anyone who has that color skin. Besides that I had fun with this because I have found that I like adding lots of colors into skin, I also did it in the memory portrait. I think the nails turned out good on most of these, the one thing I'm not a big fan of is the way the gouache looked when I tried to blend it better, thats part of the reason I went with colored pencil on top.
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This is my original tight pencil comp for the cheesy airbrush. When I first heard we had to do something cheesy I thought of the joke what do you call cheese thats not yours? NACHO (not your) cheese. So I was kind of thinking of actual edible cheese. So I decided to do Chester the Cheetah for Cheetos Chips.
This is my colored comp for the project. I used markers to lay down the main colors and then went in with colored pencil to add all the shading and blending like airbrush would have. I tried to make the colored comp look like it could be done in airbrush.
This was my final airbrush of cheesy. I think it ended up taking me about 5 or 6 hours total. I started with the black of the spots, nose and glasses. Then I moved to the orange colors and then started doing the shadowing on the shoes and gloves. I used a lot of different masks that I had cut out before starting. I did the whiskers freehand and also the blue on the glove was done free hand. I am very happy with the way this turned out, especially with all of the little parts that had to be cut and remasked, like the spots. I was also very happy that the marker comp and final product look fairly close to each other.
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If you can see this it is my original pencil comp after doing my thumbnails to decide on a concept. I choose to do the cigarette butt because I live in Iowa and everyone from where I live crosses the border to get their tobacco in Missouri because the taxes are so much cheaper.
This is the colored comp that we had to do. I had put more smoke in this than I did my final illustration. I decided that once I had it drawn out that it was too much having smoke on both sides of the cigarette, and I'm guessing that if you put it out it would only be on one side ( I don't this for sure since I don't smoke).
This one is my final illustration. I did gouache on a black illustration board and also used some airbrush. This was the first time that I painted on black illustration board and I have to say that I LOVE IT! The colors are so much more intense and brighter, you don't need as many layers, and don't have to worry about gesso. I liked this project because it was small and didn't take as long to paint, and also because I got to use airbrush. So after I had painted the cigarette and ashes I went in with some white gouache and made the smoke. I had practiced the smoke before doing it on the board, and I think it turned out looking like smoke. I did actually mess up one it and put the end away from the cigarette and when I got to looking at it I thought that it should be closer to the butt.
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This is my first airbrush fruit, its a blood orange. I didn't have many problems with this one, some of the masks didn't line up perfectly, but overall it worked well. I did have a problem with the background on the left side where the mask stuck to the board and ripped off the top layer of paper. It also ripped some of the paper off on the peel of the orange in the lower right hand corner. I wish that the highlights weren't so pure white, and that I would have tried to may the juice on the side a little more like juice, not so flat.
This is my second airbrushed fruit and I had all kinds of problems with this one. I started off with a nice light purple background and then was going to add the shadow from the fruit. The I knocked over the black ink, and of course it spilled ALL over my board. So to try to cover it up I thought I should put more purple down and it ended up being so dark to cover the black that it was almost black itself. I also had a problem making the inside look like a kiwi ( its a red kiwi, not a normal one thats why its not green ). I also didn't know how to do the seeds so I tried to do colored pencil and then ended up using a gel pen to make the seeds.
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Pencil comp
This is the original idea for my conversation. I had overheard people talking about how this guy wanted his hair cut like one of his friends and he wanted his girlfriend to cut it for him. And when she did it she did a horrible job and his friends made fun of him and told him he should have just paid the money to go to the barber.
Marker comp
This is my marker comp. I decided to change the perspective of the conversation to make it more interesting. I wanted to show that the guy was really excited to have a haircut like in the picture and that she was worried about cutting and then show the mistake that she made. I think this perspective turned out well and makes the conversation interesting.
Final image
This is my final version of my conversation. I used photo shop and colored in the sections. I tried to make this one more realistic with adding shading instead of just doing blocks of color. I liked making the mirror look like it was reflecting. I ended up adding a transparent color on top of the original color to make it look like the reflecting metallic of a mirror. I thought that this project was lots of fun, and I liked coming up with the different compositions.
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Colored comp
Final painting
I have my colored comp for the three image montage and also my final painting. I like the color in my color comp for the tracker better than the painting. This painting gave me a lot of problems. I started with the wheat in the background and this is also what I had the most problems with. After the wheat I worked from the background to the foreground. I did the books then the tracker and finally the rooster. And I also went back to the wheat field time after time. I was having a hard time with the color and with trying to get the depth and perspective right. I tried to add color blocks in the further way part of the field and get more detail the closer I got to the front. I think the hood of the tractor turned out well, and I liked the feathers in the rooster.
These are my original pencil thumbnails for the book cover. I had lots of different ideas and went with the rat in the door 101 for the book 1984. I originally had the rat at the door and you were looking at the room from the rat's perspective. Then Rusty suggested having the perspective be from inside the room and seeing the back of the rat. I ended up doing a dark room that you can see the rat in the light of the hallway.
Original painting
