In the future, none of this would actually happen.

My final for Illustration concepts, I did portraits of three science fiction writers. The biggest problem with these guys was deciding what age to draw them at (so before you look at one and say "Hey now, he's far too young/old/whatever" take a quick google search around. I assure you, all three gentlemen were once this young/old/whatever.)


First is Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


Second is Isaac Asimov, author of... well, a lot of things. But known for his Foundation series (and Robot series.)


And last is Ray Bradbury, author of Farenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and more! Mr. Bradbury is my particular favorite, mostly because of his crazy insistence on being a crotchety old man (and those sexy hipster glasses.)

Insert tacky jokes about the Royal Jewels

A re-inventing of The Emperors New Clothes (for an assignment, to re-invent a fairy tale, because my teacher had seen this short film [which really has nothing to do with this post, but it is a cool movie.]) The idea is instead of an emperor who's hubris causes him to make a fool of himself, my emperor is just a crazy old man who enjoys flashing his subjects.

Sleestack HISS

The assignment for this was a bit weird... it was fashion illustration for the movie remake of Land of the Lost, but not an illustration FOR the actual movie. The green dudes are sleestacks, if you aren't a fan of the show (or, in my case, a generation or two off of the fan base and haven't seen the movie yet.) I forget the designer of the woman's outfit, but Adam Kimmel designed the clothing I based the men's outfits on.

Chili Infused Dark Chocolate

This is my final piece for Illustration Concepts, a candy bar illustration, like the Artist Bars. I had just recently tried Chili Chocolate for the first time, it was rather tasty. I recommend.

Lucy Fer

My Character Development teacher, Brian Ralph, had one of the Charm City Roller Girls come into class with all her gear to model for us. Which was fun, and after we designed out own roller derby girl. This is the initial design for mine, a devil chick I call Lucy Fer.



This is the action poster we created after.

Cutesy Aliens

This piece is a surface design from an Illustration Concept's assignment. Intended for 3-5 year boys which was pretty fun to do. Aliens and robots seemed to be popular with this age group, I love aliens and robots (I think that pretty apparent).

Martian Robots from Mars

For Character Development, we were assigned to design a toy.. I made a robot with multiple personalities. I imagined that the smaller the head, the more psychotic the bot, where the black head would be like zombie bots, and the skull heads would be psychotic (not really kid friendly, I suppose, I was thinking more along the lines of designer vinyl toys).



After the initial design we had to make something to go with it: a toy, a poster, packing, etc. I made a toy and a poster (but the poster is the only thing finished so far). I imagined the scenerio for my robots to be something like Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. Only instead of aliens they are robots, and instead of dying out, the robots fight back and try to destroy all Mars bound humans.