津軽三味線

Aw yeah I can type in Japanese! Anyway, I was pretty happy with this one... for like the first time in weeks. I am actually ok with putting this one on my blog. This was also my first successful attempt with digital tablet. I ultimately chose digital because I needed some solid colors, with a pink that makes your eyes bleed. Also, I just wanted to prove that I can speak Japanese. Because some people were questioning... ちょと眠い。

App Icons

So, for Viscom we had to design app icons for mobile devices. I decided to say, screw the system and do 3 things that are totally unrelated. First off, I redesigned the Angry Birds icon, because the original looks like crap and they weren't using the full potential of the roundness of the bird. The second app is for French Toast, a French translator app. I wanted one that fit the square profile, so I went with bread and kept brainstorming from there. The final one is an icon for the Audio Quran. I felt that I needed a serious one, and I wanted to go totally outside of what I normally do. I am pretty pleased with them. At the least, it shows that I can make crap glossy, which is really all that matters in app icons.

Fashion Nouveau

Whew, my first non illustration post in a while. Just finished this baby on a crazy time line. I was really happy with it though. I wanted to get that Art Nouveau complex style with a more modern digital vector illustration feel. It was nice to go back to an illustration style I am actually good at. Now if only I can convince Rusty to let me vector in illustration class, I'd be golden. I might still fiddle with the typography a little bit, but other than that, it is something that I would want on my wall.

Society of Illustrators

Well, this one is not wanting to photograph correctly, so I'm trying to stitch them together. Hopefully it turns out well. But anyway, I really enjoyed working on this one, probably because it was totally open subject matter. I experimented with dripping water color in the back, then doing gouache for the main figure, then going over that again with pen. So, it was a multi media work, and I think it pulled together quite nicely.