Final Portfolio-Reflection

So the beginning of the semester was pretty rough.  I absolutely hated doing 10-a-days and I never really put the effort needed to get a great piece.  After midterm, though, we started doing bigger assignments and I really hit my stride.  I found I was pretty good at line art and watercolor and so that is what I stuck to mostly.  I hit all of the print deadlines on time except for two and I got all assignments approved except for one.  All in all, I am still timid when it comes to doing predominantly watercolor or gouache but if I push myself I can get there.

Final Portfolio-Life and Death (Approved)

This might be my favorite piece I made this semester.  It's just so freakin fun!  I relied less on line art on this one and it turned out really great!

Final Portfolio-Classical Music Cover (Approved)

Again with the line art and watercolor.  This one took me awhile to get the line art technique down and I am satisfied with the results.

Final Portfolio-World Record (Approved)

I really love the simplicity of this one.  And I obviously continued with the watercolor and line art theme :)

Final Portfolio-Number 9 (Approved)

This is the first assignment that I realized that I am pretty good at line art.  I really like how it turned out and the "blood spatter" is pretty sweet!

Society of Illustrators

So this is the only assignment that I didn't get approved.  I made it for my roommate to hang in her room and she likes it so that is all that matters!

Holy hell!

So I just finished my life and death and I absolutely LOVE it!  Who would have thought that I could do  something on the first run and really like the way it turned out.  Has Rusty seen it yet?  No.  Will he probably rip it apart and find something to fix or re-do the whole thing?  Probably.  Fingers crossed that doesn't happen, I could really use an ok right about now.

Ok, here's the deal.

Not that this is any newsflash or anything, but I am getting SWAMPED now that it is the end of the semester.  So in order to cut down on my stress, I am going to give Society of Illustrators a good effort but I don't think I am going to go through the process of getting it approved.  I will do it, print it, turn it in and blog it without Rusty's little mark.  Scandalous right?!  But don't worry, I haven't totally given up on the semester.  I will go through the whole approval process with life and death.  Because we only need 4 things for our portfolio I am allowed to kind of blow off one assignment, right?

He's ALIVE!!!

So I ended up having to do him twice in order to please Rusty, and I will admit, the final one turned out better than my first attempt.  I'm really happy with the colors but I somehow lost the squarishness of his head and features from the comp to the final....but that could be me being too picky.

First Attempt

Final 

Frankenstein!!!!

I am so pumped to do this one!  I haven't decided if I am gonna stick to watercolor and line art or if I might do gouache or maybe even a digital drawing!

Marker Comp.

Classical Music CD Cover

Here is the final.  This turned out alright.  I am still enjoying watercolor and line art, but I think I may do something different on the next one (watch out!!!).

Look a-like day in KC!

Hehe.  We are so goofy (but fabulous lol)!

Classical Music CD Cover

Approved on the second draft!  Now for the final!

Marker Comp.

World Record

I absolutely love this one!!! At first I wasn't thrilled about illustrating a world record because I thought it was stupid but I think this turned out great!  It's simple but effective and I got to utilize line art and water color, which is apparently the only thing that I can do well.

Marker Comp

Final Art

The Number 9

DEXTER!  WOO HOO! I really enjoyed doing this one and I think it turned out great.  Water color and line art is my thing so I am definitely gonna ride that for as long as I can keep it successful!

3 Image Gouache

This turned out ok.  I didn't get the final in on time, but now that I'm used to how theses projects are gonna go I will be more diligent.  It turned out a little yellow, but that is probably because I couldn't take the photo in natural light (sucky KVegas weather!).  

Midterm Portfolio-#7 (open category)

Well, out of the limited number of things I got approved, I knew I wanted to include them all in my portfolio....and the only other one that was left was my Truman line art illustration.  I am actually really proud of this one.  It has a lot of detail, the trees look cool, and I also got this one approved on the first pass!

Midterm Portfolio-#6 (Product Illustration)

I got my line art product illustration approved on the first pass, so I naturally included it over my watercolor one.

Midterm Portfolio-#5 (best Facebook illustration)

I got both of my Facebook illustrations approved and I wanted to include them both.  I put my other Facebook illustration in my with my watercolors, so I put this one in this category.

Midterm Portfolio-#4 (best digital)

I apparently liked the day I did the line art of my roommate's dog.  I chose this one because it was the best digital reproduction I did.