Last semester

Welcome to the beginning of the stuff that should have been posted at the end of last semester.

Today We have the final assignment from computer Ill:

Love and coffee,
~Anne

Computer Ill from awhile back.

We had an open project that was meant to involve an imaginary film based around the three little pigs. My group decided to do a surreal film inspired by "Babe: Pig in the City" which is a cracked film. If you ever want to watch something that is totally weird I recommend it highly. I wrote the whole synopsis so our group would all be on the same page but no one read it. {shrug} I ended up doing storyboards and drew directly into photoshop, which is not something I usually do. It was hard.
In the end I ran out of time and the class felt that the sequence of events didn't read well without description. I think that's fine as these are meant to be storyboards and the camera crew would have a shot list and a script to go from as well. If he wanted comic pages he should have said so. Otherwise the project went fine. Casey did some nice character designs and Meg did some cool locations. Overall we did a pretty nice job. Go team! ;)

Love and coffee,

~Anne

Stopgap

The final for my pulp: Red Passion. (I am actually planning to re-do this in a painted style, the only reason I didn't go with a painted style from the outset was the fear that I would not be able to make it good... {sigh} but I think it'll be really nice if I find the time to re-do it)
Another final that I am not done with. This is watercolor, and a little digital correction/combination. I still have some painting I want to do on the originals of this, I'll post the new version when I get a chance.
Ah children's book. The terrible chaos and fury of children's book. This is more or less how it's going:
I am pleased, though the progress is slow, there's a lot of working things out and I am having some fun with it.

Love and coffee,
~Anne

Mini-update

The sketch for the Pulp cover. It's due today but it may be a little while before I save the final in a postable format. I saved the sketch a bit ago so I figured I would finally post it.
Sketches for the celebrity portrait for Ill II:
Serious hugs for anyone who knows who these two are.

Love and coffee,
~Anne

Pulp Cover for Computer Ill

Just got back from the woodshop,could really use a nap :) but I have much to do and little enough time! Here's a little update on Computer Ill. After the turn-around/3 image project Prochnow assigned us a pulp-fiction book cover. I researched the old pulp books and looked at perhaps a hundred covers. I decided that the funniest of the pulps were the "adult reading" books, specifically the lesbian books. I decided to do a soviet themed cover and I titled my book "Red Passion". Here are the sketches for the cover:
Should be good, wish me luck!

Love and coffee,
Anne

Computer Illustration

We had to do a turn-around or three images of a character in different situations for computer illustration. I initially did a girl in the style I intend to use for the people in the kid's book:
But as you can see, I was having trouble making her look like not plastic. SO, I opted to do something else:

Liv was the biggest help ever. I met up with her on the Saturday before this one and she showed me some really useful tools. I couldn't have done it without her help.

Love and Coffee,
~Anne

God. Fing Computers.

Had to do a portrait for Computer Illustration. Huge pain in the ass. I chose to do Gustav Klimt and to base my illustration on a painting of his. Unfortunately, as graphic as his work was, it still had brush-strokes and bits of stray color, and texture and generally looked 9-million times better than anything I could do with illustrator. I did three versions of the final image:

On the left is a version in which the colors in the skin are drawn from a self-portrait of Richard Gerstl, who was a fellow of Klimt's in the Vienna Secession. The middle image is my original idea, which pulls the flesh colors from Klimt's piece: Hope II. This is also the image that the other elements of the image are drawn from. The pattern and colors on the clothing as well as the background are drawn from that painting. It's beautiful, look it up. The image on the right is just my attempt at a normal flesh color.

Love and coffee,
~Anne

Klimt for Computer Illustration

Our next assignment for Computer Illustration is a portrait. I have opted to do Gustav Klimt, in as close an approximation of his own style as I can manage in illustrator. Here is my sketch:

Love and coffee,
~Anne