Tag Archive 'pattern'
Sketchbook update
Posted in Personal work, Sketches on Nov 19th, 2010
It’s November and I’ve been neglecting my sketchbooks, busy with schoolwork. But things have slowed a bit for the moment. Here is an update of sketchbook pages over the past few weeks. I have a box of LEGO®s in my office and made a CVA logo out of them. Some lettering and art for posters [...]
Poirot doodle
Posted in Personal work, Sketches on May 22nd, 2010
I recently did a series of illustrations for Northeastern University for an alumni magazine feature story about bomb sensing technology. For the main piece, a portrait of a bomber, I wanted the bomber to be anonymous so I cropped the image below his eyes. But when I finished it, I thought it would be fun [...]
Kal Penn portrait
Posted in Personal work, Sketches on Apr 20th, 2009
When I started this, Kal Penn was in the news for leaving House to join the Obama administration. The sketch was drawn upside-down using my Jack Unruh inspired semi-blind contour drawing technique, resulting in some distortion. I corrected a few proportion and alignment issues and added color and texture. Tweet This Post
Final couch illustration
Posted in Jobs on Apr 12th, 2009
Here is the final couch illustration, previous post is here showing the sketch with collage. The client liked the idea of no background so I went with just the line work and flower pattern. For the final, I re-sketched some parts and thinned out the dress shape a bit. Also added color to the line [...]
Couch drawing
Posted in In-progress, Jobs, Process, Sketches on Mar 18th, 2009
Catholic charities
Posted in Jobs on Nov 19th, 2008
This piece was commissioned by Notre Dame Business magazine for an article about Catholic charities. The designer asked for two images. I designed the left side to be cropped in a cross shape and the right side to be within an oval shape. While creating the image, I worked on them together in one large [...]