Huh.....what have I done since Midterm...

Oh yeah....thought the first was Life & Death, but it was actually # 5 I believe...  Yikes...I don't have those files transferred to this computer yet though...have to do that later!

AH WAIT...found it on my flashdrive...the final at least.  I'll put the comp up later.

What else for #5?  5 dollar footlongs, of course....did most of this at home during midterm break on my kitchen island.  Did the rays and some color punching after Rusty saw it for the first time.  Printed it so fast I forgot to do any ps editing and the printout looked horrible....

Life & Death Comps.

I was very fond of the cat one and the video game hearts.  The other one was done sloppily and because I had no other ideas...something of how the best of life is the little moments when drinking hot tea or sitting outside at night or warm laundry, etc....and the worst of life....the death of me is being incredibly busy and having all these appointments and things to do and no free/down time to appreciate those little things I love.  Kind of ironic since I over schedule and overstretch myself and my time anyway.  Something's wrong with that...

The hearts would have been easier and quicker to produce, and I also like the minimalistic qualities it has.  However, I was more humored by (and Rusty also liked) the Schrodinger one.  It's comp was approved and I went on to the final.  With his advice, I did the 2 works separately but similarly and saved lineart for photoshop.

Did 2 versions with gouache + watercolor and it turned out looking like crap.  Scrapped those upon Rusty's advice and did two more in just watercolor which turned out looking enormously better.  Very happy with them.  I had also just bought some cheap glossy paper which actually looks great and makes my printouts look amazing as well!  Very happy.

Then there was Society of Illustrators, which was basically a do-whatever-the-hell-you-want (awesome!) project.  Did a bunch of sketches for this....

 

 

 

 

Rusty approved the snorkeling one so I comped it quickly...

 

 

Used Sai on my PC for the final one.  Wanted to work with it more but my PC kept freezing and SAI kept bitching and etc.  Still spent a good 10-20 hours on it.  Here's some of the process pics....

 

Color-edited finished with lighting stuff....when I printed it, the dark shading on the lower horizontal half of the girl unfortunately got really bright and looked strange to me, which was strange since it had no weird layer overlays and it was on the same layer as other elements that printed correctly. Meh....the rest of it looked really nice at 16 x 20 inches though!

I just really wanted to do an underwater scene I guess.  2 of my sketches dealt with underwater scenes.   Made sure to look at a lot of underwater references but I still could have made it more realistic...  And wanted to be able to do something really detailed.  It's easier to do a lot of little detail digitally than in a traditional form.

Here's my unedited native american comp for the poster.  Working on the final and will post the approved comp later.