Lady Hawk

Just another from Narrative Illustration.  The prompt was 'fan art' which was something along the lines of a reimagining of a franchise property.  I did a redesign/new take on the 80's movie Lady Hawk.  The idea here is that rather than Isabeau being just ridiculously beautiful and everyone loving her, that she has a personality more like the hawk she turns into.

Era: The Consortium, Last Stand of Stiletto Unit

Hey all!  I just finished the first issue of a project that you can purchase here: http://www.shadesofvengeance.com/stiletto-unit-comic-part-1/
Here is the first page, drawn by me, written by Ed Jowett and John 'Synaid' Lewis

Person Texting at a bus stop

Hey Peeps!
Here's one of the works I did in Narrative Illustration this semeseter.  I got an A in the class!

This one was painted in gouache, which was quite a challenge to figure out.

 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.