Fantastic design. Absolutely spot on.
Do you know what I’ve been doing?
Everything but art.
I am trying to set aside time everyday but it’s hard, since I’m also trying to pass classes, graduate, move to Portland, and get all my ducks in a row so I can move to Portland.
I have a meeting later this week with a marketer which should (hopefully) give me some good illustration ledes for getting solo books off the ground. OH YES INDEED we are hopeful.
This is something I actually made towards the end of last year, but I feel like it fits this week’s Illustration Friday very well. The working title had been “Rise Above It,” but the idea of course is to be open to the sun in the face of the rain, to face the rewards of being open-minded. To not simply focus on the immediate and the dreary, but to the bigger picture.
Well, things may actually be okay as far as that art class goes. Basically, I will still catch wind of the assignments and I have been invited to meet with all of the other design kids to share some ideas. My attendance policy is basically “show up whenever you can or want,” since I do have a class shortly after they meet, and uh, I’m not actually signed up for the class. It’s almost better this way I guess — all the perks and none of the penalty — though of course getting the credit and actually finishing my minor would be nice. Ah well.
Here is more work being done on the dancing people and the coffee cup:
I don’t like the dark purple-blue in the background. I want to keep this more vibrant and warm, but first I needed to darken the background so I could start working on how the little globe lights look. They looked great until I remembered the background, so I need to warm that back up and bring the lights back in so I can use them as a proper light source here.
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This is something I started not too long ago to use up extra paint on my pallet. I like where it’s headed. I also think the grey water is kind of compelling, so when I start actually doing ripples (following the surface lines I made) I may go with the whole white&grey thing I’ve got going.
A file folder I actually use at work. It’s colored pencil, “laminated” with packing tape so it wouldn’t smudge. Note the “window” that lets me know if something’s in there or not. If the folder is empty then the picture is seen as a unbroken thing, as I colored the inside in that spot to continue the picture.
This scene is a tip of the hat to how I spent a lot of my time senior year of high school — sitting on a big wall of the coffee shop downtown. I’m working on another folder that is a lot more purple and less lonely.
Ah, finally this idea
makes it to canvas. I always feel like the sketches are far more compelling with these things than the finished product, but I’m stuck on how to capture that.
Here’s my plan. I would like to make these:
And then I will party like this:
images courtesy of Design Delicatessen.
