Entry 410: Peter Pan

The final project for Digital Illustration is student choice. In my case it was wife's choice,lol. Dorothy's favorite book is Peter Pan, so here's my illustration for a hardcover book. This was all created from different photos, with the exception of Tinkerbell, who i painted in photo-shop.

Entry 409: Natalie Portman Final

Final version. Very little changed here, mostly upped the contrast and played with the hair a touch.

Entry 408: Natalie Portman WIP

I've settled on this for my final piece, mostly based on print issues with the other one. As you can see I've made some changes for the better, still a little ways to go I think.

Entry 407: Celebrity Painting Project

The fourth project for my digital illustration class. We have to create a piece based on a recognizable classic painting with a celebrity inserted as the subject. These are what I'm working on so far, Scarlett Johansen in The Birth of Venus, and Natalie Portman as Lady Godiva.

Side-note: That isn't Scarlett's real body so don't go trying to find the photo, it just ended up matching really, really well :)

Entry 406: Reese Witherspoon

the finished portrait. My teacher mentioned that Reese Witherspoon is really hard to draw, so I challenged myself. I'm pretty pleased with the outcome, especially considering my lack of experience with this style of pencil work. I think I'm still a little heavy- handed with this, but I'm getting there :)

Entry 405: WIP

terrible scan of a portrait work in progress, its coming along pretty nicely.

Entry 404: Art Barbarian

A quick caricature of my Illustration professor, Tom Ogburn, as some sort of either Hulk-person or a barbarian, I never decided where it was going. I actually drew this fully with mechanical pencil, fore-going the usual blue col-e-rase sketch.

Entry 403: Leonidus

10-minute sketch with a blue Pilot pen.

Entry 402: CNN graphic

This was a spot on demand for my digital illustration class. The specs were pretty specific, but the basic job was to create a graphic to be used on CNN in the event of the capture of Osama Bin Laden. This piece was actually chosen as one of the two best examples in my class :)

Entry 401: 400 rejected

A reject idea for the 400th entry.

Entry 400: MAN or BEAST?!?

400 entries fools. the top is Action Comis #400, the image I based this on :)

Entry 399: The Hispaniola

The last in my Treasure Island series: The HIspaniola.

Entry 398: Happy Fourth

Some times, Hitler just needs a good sock in the mush. Happy 4th everyone.

Entry 397: Ben Gunn

My third illustration for Treasure Island, the marooned Ben Gunn.

Entry 396: Jim Hawkins

My second piece from Treasure Island, Jim Hawkins.

Entry 395: Long John SIlver

I've recently started reading Treasure Island for the first time since I was a little kid and I'm loving it, so I thought I'd do a series of quick illustrations from the book. The first is of Long John SIlver, and of course Cap'n Flint. I'd really like to do a bunch of finished full color illustrations and put them together for a nice illustrated hardback edition, Kind of like Bernie Wrightson did with Frankenstein :)