Monday, November 30, 2009

Chan Is Missing


I really like this film. I saw it today, and it's now one of my favorite movies. The film takes place mostly around 1980s SF's Chinatown, specifically Grant Ave. Two Asian-American cab drivers find themselves embroiled in a mystery when a friend of theirs, Chan, disappears with their money--but do they really know who Chan is?

Here is a bit of the movie.


The trailer for this film is as elusive as Chan himself, so this is the next best thing.

Scraps of illustration board, pen, pencil, yellow highlighter.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Skin




Spot and frontspiece illustration for Roald Dahl's short story Skin. These are the most flat, most abstract pieces I've ever done for illustration. I seem to be going in this direction, and I don't know what I think about that yet. Maybe I should see how it goes...although it doesn't "feel" like me at the moment.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Final Illustration #9


Book cover project, The Old Man and the Sea. I'm getting there, my professor says--the only things that really need fixing are the shakiness of the lines here and there, and that annoying tangent where the boat is floating right above the marlin's fin.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Illustration Project Final #8




Ridaaaaaaaaaaa....Henshin!

Most. Favorite. Assignment. Ever.

For this one, we had to draw a portrait of someone, anyone, anyone at all--and then this would be used as a promo piece for places we would like to work at. My professor suggested that instead of one rider I have a whole bunch of riders posing, since I wanted to do this in a sort of sequential manner...since I plan to go into comics. Acrylic and ink.

Edit: cleaned it up a bit here and there, re-uploaded.

Illustration Project Final #7

Piece for an essay about how WWII is portrayed differently then it actually was. I feel like I could have used another day on this.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

My Favorite Book

...was Mr. Popper's Penguins, when I was very very little. Lithograph.

Illustration Final # 6



Wine label design for Periscope Cellars. It's a puhi. : D

This is close, but not quite there. Could use some variation in tone and such. Still, I am very pleased with this piece. Acrylics and ink as usual.