I think I finally have the new look for Jacob hashed out. I’m trying to create a slightly different look to all of my Chipmunk Bay characters so that they’re more instantly recognizably different from one another than they currently are. I decided to make Jacob’s face a more rectangular than it was before, and elongate it somewhat. I’m still not sure I REALLY want to go through with the design change, but I think it’ll help my art grow if I force the change. Hopefully readers will embrace the change.
For comparison, here’s ‘vintage’ Jacob:
Because a friend of mine was asking for it. Apparently his greatest fear would be 3 floating nuns. When prodded, it was uncovered that if the nuns were babies it would be even creepier.
I liked the picture I did of myself for the About page, so I thought I’d try again, this time with my wife. The style of the two drawings are quite different. This turned out pretty good, but it’s certainly not the style I was going for, so I have mixed feelings about it. I think it’s time I start working on the cartoon stuff again. My hand hurts after this. This took a little over 7 hours.
I also did a stage by stage flash slideshow of my progress. So you can see for yourself why it took 7 hours (this is a big slideshow… about 1 mb, so bear with it while it loads).
Another school project I did. I created some promotional pieces for a new B movie called “The Destroyinator”. I attempted to recreate the vintage posters of old, when terrible monster movies like this actually warranted movie posters, rather than being straight-to-Sci-Fi-channel features.
Here’s the movie poster I did:
An image I drew for a school project. This was meant to be the inside cover of a cd case for the band “Crap in Bucket with Banjos”.
My wife. I drew this in Photoshop, using a photo ref. And no, I won’t post the ref. =P
Darth Vader in the style of pop. I played around within Photoshop to try to achieve the same look of Andy Warhol. Failing that, I took the photo of Vader and redrew it in the same color style I’d been trying to achieve with Photoshop filters / layering effects. I added the black borders later on when displaying in an old portfolio. I liked the effect they add to the image, so I kept them as part of the finished piece.
Hopefully you can recognize this as Clint Eastwood. I drew this from a black and white photo as part of a school project. I actually drew this same image four separate times. A quick sketch; a black and white ink drawing; a greyscale shaded version; and this color illustration. I’m pretty sure if I hadn’t drawn it all four times, the end result wouldn’t have been as nice. I fixed a lot of ‘near misses’ in his facial features with each version, and by the final piece I had a pretty good idea of how to achieve the ‘Clint’ look.