Nigerian E-mail Scams

These three were done for a narrative project on Nigerian e-mail scams, you can read the scam I picked here. It has an embattled president, blood diamonds and secret identities. The woman in the e-mail asks you hold the money in trust for her until she and her sons (husband apparently gets left for dead) can join you in your country. It was an interesting project and I chose to put a sort of humourist spin on the situation, casting the characters of the story as cold and calculating, rich and hardly in need of help. All three are acrylic on illustration board. They didn't scan very well so I may post better versions later.

Infographics

These are some infographics I did last semester. Both are done in Adobe Illustrator. The first is simple instructions on how to build a fort. Unlike Ikea, I don't make you use an Allen wrench. The second is a poster for the Flickr website. It's a network diagram of all the pictures of people posing with wax celebrities. The celebrities are divided into categories, some very talented people fall into more than one. TH graphics at the bottom are about popularity and the inappropriate touching of the wax celebrities by the people in the pictures. I once had my picture taken with a wax Patrick Stewart.

Paste

This was a subscription card project, I chose Paste magazine. Paste comes with a free CD of new and upcoming artists, mostly on the Indie scene. This started out as print making and ended up digital after some things went awry. The large dark area at the top of the front piece is actually a window, which I cut out and attached acetate to so the CD can be seen.

Photoshop Painting

More photoshop painting today. The first is an album cover for Carley Simon's You're so Vain. The background is scanned in acrylic on masonite, but the rest is Photoshop.

The smaller pieces are spots for some strange facts. The facts are the following, in order of the illustrations they go with:

1. Minimum # of shopping carts that went missing from LA area stores last year: 6 220 000
   
2. Pounds of radioactive produce grown near Chernobyl that were confiscated in Moscow markets last year: 1820
   
3. Chances that an unprotected PC will become infected with a virus within 10 mins of being on the Internet: 1:4

Editioral/Interpretive

The first illustration was done in acrylics and was for an article about how people defined success. The statistics listed below the painting are from the article.

The second is from a fortune cookie, the text below the image was the fortune I received in my cookie. This one's in watercolours.

The third was for an article on women's libido. This one is also done in watercolour and gouache.

Memento Mori

This is a little photoshop painting I did for my best friend sometime ago and made into bookplates and stickers for her. Her little skinny pig, Mortimer, died recently and I've decided to post this to honour his memory. Rest in piece little guy.

The Wayward Fire

This was a graphic design project from last semester. We made up a band based on a series of random words that we we given for a few typography assignments. My band is The Wayward Fire, their new CD is called Exposing Crumbs. I used Photoshop to design a CD, gate-fold CD case and tour poster for the band.

Saphronia

These four illustrations were done for a narrative project: the short story was called Saphronia. They are all done in cut and paste paper with a little bit of watercolour for shading and skies. It was a fun project but the cut and paste method was rather painstaking. Still I was happy with the results. The story is about twisting the expected. The circus ends up being the permanent part of the town while the municipal buildings are packed up and moved on.

Overheard, Understood

This project was all about eavesdropping. I this conversation between a a guy and a girl while I was at work. The girl was buying a huge pile of textbooks when she told the guy she didn't study. Whether or not he was really trying to pick her up or even if they knew each other, I don't know. But I interpreted the situation as a total rejection. He got shot down. This was a really fun project and I gave a very "high school", naive sort of feel to reflect what i understood to be going on. It's collage and inks. The original is 12" x 20" so the note paper I actually made by hand using a one-hole punch and blue and red ink for the lines.

Defying Gravity Made Easy

This was a recently completed project for Interpretive Illustration. I wanted to turn my focus towards children's illustration because that is one thing I'd really like to do when I'm done school. I haven't had much of a chance to do this yet. The goal for this piece was cute and colourful. I think I've been successful in both. The penguin makes me smile. I'm still not 100% happy with the text so I plan to adjust it some more. The original is water-mixable oils on illustration board, it scanned in and the text was added in Adobe Illustrator.

Let's Get Digital

I've been having some serious internet issues lately so this post has been a long time coming. I've written it out so many times and not been able to post it... so long story short: digital work from first year.

1. Chocolate bar drawn from life, done in Illustrator

2. Spongebob juice lid drawn from life, painted in Photoshop

3. Made up dragon combined with photograph, phantom techniques in Photoshop