IF – Ferocious

This monster creation was done for inclusion in this week’s Illustration Friday’s call for entries themed ‘Ferocious’. The creature’s form is inspired by some of the carvings on display at the contemporary Inuit art exhibit on the display at the Art Gallery of Ontario, which I saw when I last visited Toronto. The works are at once whimsical and naive while at the same time horrific and grotesque. Look up works by Karoo Ashevak as great examples of the clean, simple organic forms, often pulled directly their natural materials, which are then contorted into screaming, mutated beings. I don’t intend on turning this blog into an art class, that’s just what this piece was about.

 

Peace of Mind


I just wrapped up doing an illustration/logo for Peace of mind landscaping. I’m pleased with the results, though I did unfortunately discover a dead spot on my Wacom tablet while working on this. I was able to work around it but it means I’ll have to pick up a new one this later this week – easy come, easy go.
Here are some details from the end piece:

Just to share a little bit of the process, here is the rough sketch to go along with it. I like to leave things open going into the final, it keeps the end result looser. Essentially it goes straight from this to final.

Hybrid Character design


Here’s a character/mascot I did for Toyota’s new Prius Hybrid (I keep spelling hybrid wrong now and have to catch myself). I think it’s cute, and it’s got lazers which are awesome.A lesson/reminder to myself, always do that idea you think is just too weird and they’d never go for it. I carried this one through to final more for myself than anything and of all the other designs, most of which felt more like work, this is the one that got approved.Here’s all the rough work that went into it. It just worked from the beginning.

IF: Unbalanced = chemical fire

 

I spent a little more playing around on the computer time this week – motivated by the Illustration Friday site.  For this week’s topic, ‘unbalanced’, I decided to continue along both the stylistic and conceptual themes which came out of last week’s IF piece. This illustration approaches ‘unbalanced’ from the ‘emotionally unbalanced’ angle. I wanted to illustrate the internal and external contradiction of those chemically imbalanced individuals who, though may say kind words, rage within. Thanks to Ann Marie who encouraged me to continue this line of exploration last week, I think it’s moving forward. It’s now time though to put the computer away, break out the paints, and get back to work.

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