Showing posts with label uglies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uglies. Show all posts

Monday, January 7, 2013

Final Projects

Yeah, it's a bit weird to be posting my final projects from last semester on the first day of the new semester, but with so much coming up this semester (and hopefully a more frequent posting schedule), I figured I'd better get this out of the way. ;)

Without further ado, this was my final project for my concept design class:

Digital Illustration
A story moment from the Uglies!  I have a little more work to do on it, especially if I decide to enter it into any competitions, but I figure it's fit enough to show.  I've actually had a few people recognize this scene from the book without even being told that it was an Uglies illustration, so that was kind of gratifying. :)

And this was my poster for Richard III that I did for Narrative:

Oil painting, 18"x24"
This one also needs some work, but I'm so done with it right now that I don't know if I'll bother.  I learned a bit painting it, though, so that's always nice.

Finally, there's this piece from Narrative 1, which is definitely a fixer-upper:

Mixed media
My teacher really liked the composition, so I'm considering redoing it and painting a sort of border around it.  Funny story about this piece--it used to be twice as wide, with a whole other segment to the painting, and my teacher didn't like it so much.  When I went in to ask her how I could fix it, she looked at it for a minute, took a pair of scissors, and cut it in half.

"There," she said.  "Now it's an A."

No arguing with that.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Prop Design




 In my concept design class this semester, we're pretty much entirely focused on making artwork for Uglies, a book by Scott Westerfeld which is amazing and everyone should read it and ... ahem.

We started out designing props, and these are my final renderings.  I might rework the hot air balloon at some point, but I liked how the hover board and wrist cuffs came out.  So did my teacher, actually.  It's always a nice feeling to get positive critiques XD