When Life Gives You Lemons

This was a very fun piece to do. I remember I was having lunch with my friend and we got lemon water and she shoved her lemon down with her straw and said that she was drowning it. I was instantly inspired to make some mafia lemons getting rid of a lose end. I started out sketching this in a rather cartoony manor, and then eventually scanned it into Photoshop and decided to take a more realistic approach. I used tons of reference for this piece, normally I would just have a lemon in my hand, trying to really capture that texture of pulp. Also I like to hide little details, like the "help!" written from the inside of the glass, which only a few have picked up on. This way of making food come to life was really fun, and I hope to illustrate more scenes like this in the future.

Evening Storm

For this piece I did a acrylic underpainting and then did a oil painting final. I collaborated a bunch of photos taken around my farm to compose a Constable inspired landscape. Also I used a split-compliment color scheme of orange, blue green and blue violet. The trees I decided to create, which I discovered was quite difficult because of the need to make them symmetrical, and thus not naturalistic. All in all I think this painting came together pretty well.

Werewolf Date

This is a vector illustration of the transition of a man into a werewolf. I wanted it to be very simple yet still tell a story. This telling two stories, one is a man walking to his date, and the other is a man turning into a werewolf.

24/7 Monsters

In this project I took seven people from my design class and turned them into monsters within twenty four hours. One could think of it as a series monster caricatures. I decided after rendering them all to put them together in a group like super heroes. I really liked this project and I think creating characters off people I already know gives a really strong uniqueness and establishes a boundary in which I can find creative solution. This work was painted in Photoshop.

The Ride

This was a book illustratiion that was written by a sever year old during his recovery of cancer. This was one of the few four line stories that was illustrated and put into a book for him. I really tried to expand upon his favorite things to write about by including sea turtles, dinosaurs, spiders,ice cream, etc. This was created drawn out and then rendered in Freehand. It was a very fun project and I hope to do more things like this in the future.