Thursday, November 29, 2012

air

 
 
Decided to try branding everyday stuff, like air! So this is a really thin typeface to imitate how air almost seems like nothingness. Also very transparent to play to that same note.
Done in illustrator.

Free for anyone to use however they wish. If you do use it, link me to your work if possible. I'd love to see.
Go here to download the full size image.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Honey

Made these logos with the song Honey by Erykah Badu in mind.
Done mostly in Illustrator. I like the honey colours and the sexy sleek typeface. I think it's a sexy piece. I feel like especially the last one has a perfume vibe.







Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Sailor Moon Logos

If you've seen some of my past posts you probably can tell I enjoy Sailor Moon. Decided to tie a little design work into that passion with the little logos below. Silhouette version done in Illustrator. Bottom version done in Illustrator and Photoshop.



Some soft colors



 Thought the golden color was very symbolic of Serena



 With some type
With color palette similar to the original logo's

If you'd like to download larger versions of them, check out my Sailor Moon gallery on my DeviantArt.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Pulse



I hadn't done a super developed traditional piece in a while so voila! Here is a beautiful woman holding a butterfly daintily in her fingers.

Just an interesting note, studying anatomy from real people, not cartoons or illustrations, is always a good thing. It helps you have a real understanding of joints and proportions. After you have that foundation then you can start distorting to your liking, instead of learning from something that's already distorted.
Often when I'm drawing a female I'll look in Victoria's Secret catalogs for references because when you combine poses you can get interesting stuff, and since they're in underwear you can see the folds in the skin and the muscle.

Prints available here.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Animu Gurl




So a friend and I were trying to draw the most stereotypical anime character we could think of . This is what I came up with.

So my character, let's call her... Poki-Chan, what the hell, why not.
So anyway Poki-Chan is like 12 or 13 or 14, whatever, and she's in space police academy, and this is the official female uniform. Of course the male uniform is legit full coverage but this is the girls'.
And Poki-Chan is an airhead with a good heart, like Sailor Moon, so she trips over herself a lot.
And her earrings are also their communicators. And her boobs are awesome cause she's in space police academy in space. So ain't no gravity to weigh them down! And she's got a headband thing that'll expand down with glass to scan stuff and such. And her little side bag, who knows what's in it. Maybe a stupid furry sidekick. Anyway, so Poki-Chan in in space police school when a space war breaks out, so even trainees have to join in to fight, and Poki-Chan becomes the leader of her group somehow (Starship Troopers style?).
Yeah. Whateva whateva I do what I want.

WHATCHOOSAY??


Lol
fun idea I came up with today. So while they're all in their space base, Superman getting kicked in the crotch by Wonder Woman and Batman giggling in the background XD
Yeah, yeah, man of steel. However Wonder Woman is strong as hell too. She stopped one of those nuke things on that ape planet from exploding with her bare hands and letting it land on herself (Dat ep was so cute! Batman was all like 'Diana! No!' and tried to dig her out of the rubble himself. She was fine. Just pushed the bomb off her and went on her merry way.)

So basically, even though Superman is... well, Superman, a kick in the balls from Wonder Woman, I'm sure he could feel.

You can think of whatever scenario you want for her to be that upset. Hope you lol!

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Spill


So umm... When I don't know how to do something in Photoshop, I do it in After Effects Drawn and colored in Photoshop. Imported as a comp into AE, added some effects and lights, trimmed the comp length to 1 frame, then exported as tiff sequence. Brought back into Photoshop for some finishing touches.
I'm trained as a time-based artist so I'm going to use that as my excuse.

Tried a lot of new stuff with this piece so it was good finding out new things. I look at other people's art then if there's something that looks really cool that I find applicable to something I'm working on, I try to figure out how to achieve the look myself.

So subject tilted, have the nice light halo effect, and if you zoomed in really close you could see the lines are shades of the color of that area (kind of like how Spongebob's lines around his face are not just black lines--they're colored to match him). Obscured the lights in the back, added a handful of lights in AE, added that dark blur thing around the edges. I think that really made it actually. Originally I thought the piece was finished without it, but for whatever reason I added it and it looks so much better.
Above is just a small WIP image. Nothing fancy.
I'm happy with how this turned out :) I think I'm improving.

Oh so this piece is titled Spill after the song by Showoff. It's kinda the theme song of my life at the moment.

This is how I feel about choo:
I've suffered everything. You think you feel the same. If you ever want to be with me then think again.
I don't care if you need me. I've questioned everything.
Let me tell you what I say:
Honey, I know it all, still you wonder if I stand or if I fall.
Honey, I. Won't. Take. The. Spill.


Prints available here.