Work In Progress: Objective Cards.

These will eventually be printed out and made in to small cards. Each one represents a life or creative objective I wish to follow. Most of them involve honing different skills or areas of knowledge. These are just a few. One of them, obviously, has the previously posted vector recreations of the treasures from the first Zelda game.

The finished product will be posted once they’re printed out

Potion label.

Okay, this thing is giving me some grief. I posted the non-text version a while back, but getting the text right has been a headache. I still don’t like how it looks.

Anyhow, this is part of a series. It’s a “potion” label, specifically, the potion from Final Fantasy 6. I wanted to do a few potion labels in the style of wine labels, or old medicine jar labels, or something like that. When this is (eventually) done, I’ll do labels for Hi-Potion, X-Potion, and Elixer. Still, I need to refine this one.

Flower Symbol.

This is an early draft of something I’ve been sketching out for a while now. It’s a star/flower symbol that takes inspiration from the Tudor Rose, though is obviously taking on it’s own distinct style. Obviously, it also has some hints to the overall shape of a starfish. It even has some resemblance to Starro The Conqueror from D.C. Comics, though that wasn’t intentional. This is still in the very early stages. The overall motion, especially of the lower two petals/arms is all wrong. Still, this is a start, and most of the important concepts for this thing are here. The symbol doesn’t represent anything. I just wanted to create some kind of flower symbol/image, since I’ve been in this mood to draw flowers lately.

Ancient Columns.

Romanesque, obviously, but they have their own distinctive design. This was graphite on charcoal paper. This is rather old. It was done in summer of 2010.

 

Mission Statement.

This was an assignment for a class. The instructions were to create a mission statement for your life. It could take any form. Here are the results. Five envelopes, each with a word that pertains to an interest and a quote relating to it. Inside is an image that is relevant in some fashion.  The images are as follows:

BUILD: Seattle Public Library, by Rem Koolhaas and OMA.

DRAW: A painting by Jean Giraud, aka Mobius. My biggest artistic influence.

WORDS: The Voynich manuscript. Exact origins and authorship unknown.

CITIES: Hong Kong skyline. PHotographer unknown.

FUTURE: A nebula. Hubble telescope.

 

Red Panda Shirt cont.

Just an update on the Red Panda image that I may submit to Threadless. This is a closer iteration of what the final idea will resemble. The way the Panda interacts with the diamond shape is still a bit incongruous, but I just need to make the movement more dynamic, so it looks like the panda is leaping through the opening. Right now it looks like it’s just leaning over the edge, and doesn’t have a sense of motion. Anyhow, the next version will, hopefully, be posted within the next week or so.

Venetian Flowers.

This began as a desire to draw a venetian mask that was interacting with some leaves and vines in some way. From there it got merged in to another image I wanted to do involving flowers, and another featuring a scene of a city that is roughly inspired by Venice. The city is supposed to look rough, as if it’s only partially formed. Like it’s a dream. This took a lot longer to do that I expected. Anyhow, here it is.

Paul Krugman fanart.

Yes. I did a fanart of my favorite economist, Paul Krugman. The Nobel Laureate and New York Times columnist. Yes, I am the biggest dork in the world.

 

Anyway, here it is. Lineart and in color. This was done on 9 x 12 (I think) windpower sketch paper, with Micron pens

 

Typographic Sci Fi Posters #4: Planet of the Apes.

The fourth and (for now) last of these posters. I may create others in the future, but I want to work on refining these four for now. This last one is, obviously, Planet of the Apes. This time, like in the 2001 poster, the image and the quote are very closely linked, and this is the ominous line which precedes the famous twist ending. Hopefully the statue of liberty image is clear enough in this rendition.

 

Just a simple wood model.

This was an assignment for Architectural Design 2. I won’t go in to all the details. It’s just a wooden frame for an exploration type assignment. In any case, this was made primarily with basswood, and is mostly held together via zapkicker. There are a few details you can’t make out from this angle. I have more photos of this thing, so I may upload those later.