Teal House

Here's a thing I finished up today.
Took longer than I would've liked, but I'm happy with how it turned out. I went around on a sunny day a few  months ago and took pictures of some houses on my street that caught my eye. Planning to do a few more of these soon.

finished house

some progress shots

In other news, I just finished a summer class and have a bit of time off before the next one. I'm heading down to Redmond tomorrow to visit Mike and I'll have some downtime while he's at Microsoft, so I'm hoping to do some more of these if possible.

BASIL

Last semester in Game Illustration, I created a character, Basil the red panda. Basil ended up as the star of the final project, a side scrolling flash game built in an incredibly frustrating and broken engine. Despite the struggles, I had alot of fun with it, and the end result wasn't too bad, all things considered. 

mockup screenshot with partial UI and character sketch in environment

full color character concept 

finished sprite sheet of Basil

 

attempt at a finished illustration, in progress

input and editing from +Seth Rutledge. Thanks, Seth!

decided on a landscape composition in the end

Hey look, more steampunk

In my Game Illustration class, we're doing a class-wide reskinning of the card game Dominion with a post-apocalyptic steampunk spin. The card I chose/was assigned to was The Mafia/Mob (A group of citizens trying to exert influence through violence). I thought they'd be pretty tough with a big robot buddy, so I gave them one. Hopefully they come off as aggressive and intimidating as intended. This is one of the rare times where I have more than one figure in a composition so I should probably do more like this. Pretty happy with how it turned out. This is the 'tight sketch', final piece due on Thursday. 

Lots of things

Been very busy! I got into the illustration major at school which ended up being good and bad. Good because my degree will be worth a bit more to me and I get a better chance of getting into the classes I want, but bad because it delays my graduation. Oh well. 

I also got into the game design class I wanted. I thought we would be working in the genre of game art, but we're actually making games. Project 1 is a board game which I'll write more about later. Project 2 is a  card game, and the final project is a Flash sidescroller. I'm pretty excited about all this, though some of my classmates are disappointed in the class. I'm happy because I actually have something to focus on. I want to work on my board game beyond the bounds of the class and hopefully use it for my grad project. 

I started working on the characters yesterday. I hammered out some silhouettes and now rendering them out.

The Snob

The Collector 

Silhouettes - not labeled - The Gamer

D10 practice painting

foundation book entry

My contribution for a collaborative project my friend organized. We’re putting together an 8 page full color book based around the key locations incoming ECUAD students need to know.   Even if they don’t enjoy the activity, they’ve got a sweet little book filled with creative, original illustrations. 

The location I chose was the print card machine and here we have a new student, nervously trying to figure it out. 

Summer Festival

I also finished the Summer Festival flyers/posters. We're using Jukebox Print because they're both local and affordable for the quality. Got back the flyers and I'm impressed, placing poster order on Monday during business hours.

Posters came back and they look fantastic. Onto distribution! Definitely a pleasure working with Jukebox. 

Banner for Hovernote

Here's the market banner for hovernote. I think it's still a bit rough, but definitely better than alot of what else I've seen on Google Play. Hopefully this helps the app to get noticed more.
New update releasing soon adding a whole bunch of functionality like a working file browser and autosave. Quick layout in illustrator using ICS blue (#33B5E5) and the Android font Roboto. 

In other news, I'm working on my resume, mainly content right now. Hopefully tomorrow I can make it look fancy and appealing. I got my work permit and my social insurance number and I'm almost ready for the job market.

Been busy. Really busy.
Helping out with design and testing of hovernote as well as creating visual assets and laying out promotional material for it.

Last week, I managed to last-minute plow through my final paper for the summer class I'm taking.
~2600 words in two days- I'm quite proud of myself. Just two more classes left and then I start my job hunt. Oh boy.

Hovernote Icon

So this is the launcher/market icon I made for my boyfriend's Android app hovernote available for download on Google Play. It's a floating notepad app that sits on top of other fullscreen apps and lets you jot things down without having to interrupt your workflow. You can store the notes as notifications, or share them to other apps like Dropbox.

Made in Illustrator

Speedpainting Collabs

Yesterday I participated in a collaborative speedpainting activity with a few friends. We started off with this image and had to do something with it, either inspired by in some way or painted over or whatever, for 20 minutes, flatten it, and save it to DropBox. Next person does something more to the file, flattens and saves it, and so on. The theme was underworld. 

Original

Cody's base

Molly's base

My base

Seth's base

Sunny's base

The fruit of my labor. Concept and design work for my friend Vicky's short film/ online interactive project she's pitching on Tuesday. This is the front.

And the back of the card. 

Skate Deck

Gold paint, gloss, ballpoint pen on wooden skate board.

This is a skate deck I made for the ILL'N Deck Show last year. It was a silent auction and there was only one bid on mine, so unfortunately I didn't make as much from it as I could have. More than 15 hours of work went into this one.

My second skateboard sold! 

Repaint/redesign of Quintipus concept ship originally drawn by Seth Rutledge.

Ein on the wing for shits and giggles.

Some more details, lighting, and SPACE. Hopefully can finish this tomorrow- it's quite fun.

Quintipus Poster Mockup

This is a poster I put together for my friend's film project.

AKITTYA

Katneda and Catsuo

and some other cats