New stuff

I applied for a job for women's services, and they asked me to create a poster for one of their events as part of the application.  I chose the yoga classes they offer.

I didn't want to draw some complicated yoga pose for the poster, because seeing those doesn't make me want to do yoga; they make me think that I should NEVER go to yoga.  So I decided to focus on a relaxing pose in a serene place.  

When I was sketching, I came up with the idea of a girl sitting under a waterfall and the water streams doubling as her hair:

Then I built it up in illustrator in b & w:

Then I fiddled with the colors, an arduous process for me.  

Once I was happy with them, I added text:

My coworker, Renee, pointed out that the browns and the pinks were the only warm parts, so the girl would stand out more if I cooled the browns down.  Renee was so right.  I imported into photoshop, put a soft light purple layer over the whole thing, and added some textures.  And voila:

I'm pretty happy with it, whether or not I get hired, and doing this reminded me that I always get better results when i start with a hand sketch.

For my narrative class this semester we illustrated Peter Pan.  

There are just too many interpretations of Peter, and I didn't want to add to them.  

I figured the story was well enough known that the hook would be a 

recognizable symbol, and simple to paint.  

For the back cover, I drew some crocodile skin because 

it's related to Hook and because their scales are COOL-looking.  

(Started with sketches on these, too)

Here's the lettering on the spine, which I created from a sketch Kyle did:

And here's the inside leaf:

Also, we had to do sketches for interior illustrations (aka we never rendered them) and here are a few of my favorites.  (You can view them all here)