Hey all.  This was the final assignment in my Narrative Illustration class with Richard Hull.  I, of course, really enjoyed this assignment and I tried to make it something that I would be really proud of. 
The scene is from Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan.  I really like the book, but I hated the movie, and it really was not what I had in mind when I read it. 

Snake in a Box

This was my final for my Flash animation class.  It was a lot of work, but I got it done, and I was one of only a few that actually finished the assignment.

BFA Page 18 Inks

The inks for the penciled page I posted here a month or so ago.  I quite like the way that the father's body falls into shadow in the last panel.  It wasn't really something I'd planned for, but I'd like things like that to happen more often.

BFA Pencils, page 18

Found some motivation to keep working on this story for the moment, which has been a bit hard.  I've looked back at it so many times, but redrawing something that was written by someone else (something that I love) I realized that my storytelling and writing aren't nearly as good as said person.  But I was quite pleased with this page, and that can be motivating. (as well as music)

This one had me thinking about some of the ways that comics are an interesting way to illustrate, and for me, a lot better than traditional paintings and images.  In a comic, you can tell multiple facets of a story, shifts in mood and tone, and you can emphasize in ways that would be completely unacceptable in a single painting.  Things like closeups, which help express the mood and emotions of what's happening here wouldn't happen if this scene had been a painting. 
Of course, it loses that striking imagery that you often get in single illustrations, and people will spend a lot less time looking at the drawings, but I would prefer that people get absorbed by the story and feel the emotions with the characters.

S2000

A bit different sort of picture here.
Drew this one up real quick for the print sale at UVU

The Tower

Hey all!  This is a project that I've been working on for Fou Games presently called "The Tower", a fantasy card game for ios, and hopefully Android in the future.  The game looks to mix the experience of reading comics and playing games, specifically designed with the iPhone in mind.  I've been on to do the story art for the game and concept art.  This is one of my first real jobs, and it's very exciting!

These are some of my concepts and development work for designing the main character, Sofia.

 This is the first panel of the game, and the general process for creating it.

 Here are some of the panels that I like a lot that I've done so far.

Improvement

Many people, especially my teachers, tell artists to keep everything so that they can always look back... well, I looked back, and I have improved immensely.  Things like black balance, line quality and weight, down to anatomy and body language have all gotten better. 

Other than that, school starts in like a week, so gah!