Stir (Stirring Up Trouble)

So this is an older painting I made when I was younger. I was having a hard time trying to think of something for this word and I gave up. I am sorry I couldn't come up with something original but I knew how this would tie into the word so I went with it. It acts on the "stirring up trouble" feel in which the boy we see here is very mean and kicks a lizard for no reason. As we see in the next few panels that action will soon have consequences and the lizard comes back but alas he is not alone. The boy looks up and we see him staring face to face with Godzilla, the King of Monsters. (even though this is the 1998 American Version Godzilla) and he is in for it now.

I did fix up the words because I don't have a great camera and it blurred a bit when I took the photos so I went into photoshop and made the words more pronounced. I hope you like it anyways.

IF Word "Layer"

For the word "layer" i wanted to combine it with the step by step process we are doing in school right now. I thought it ties into the theme of the picture as i decided to focus on the "layers" of things that we never actually see. Meaning what we perceive as normal everyday life could hold much secrets to it that we would have never guessed. And so that is when I decided to start out with this brief sketch.



This is the first step in which i just went fast and drew out a sketch of what I wanted to do. As you can tell it is a cow that has had it's left side peeled back to show the skeleton underneath, reveals it's "layers" but what we see is not what we would imagine. Instead we see a mechanized side that we never thought would be there. This idea came from how much I love robots.



This is the second step in which I refined the lines and added a bit more detail to the picture, trying to give greater contrast between the normal cow side and it's mechanized counterpart.



And this where I added all the actual color and detail to the image. I kind of forgot to save the basic color outlook before I put the detail in and was too far ahead to go back and save the step. But here we see is the cow, finished in all it's detail, I tried my best to illustrate the robotic parts as best as I could, giving them a shine and a shadow. The same as the cow, I did a lot of different browns to give its hide a real depth to it.



This is the final image with the background added in, again playing to the two sides, where I made the normal cow side have a blue sky with clouds, acting all normal and grazing and such. And with the mecha side I made the red lines to represent a mechanical feel, kinda like a digital stream of information passing through the cow.

Devastator Graffiti

So this is my graffiti that I made for class. I know it doesn't display a clear message other than that if you see a giant 50 foot robot breaking through a wall...run.

The robot I drew on the wall is called "Devastator" as depicted by name also being graiffiti'd below the image. He is a a combination of 6 small robots called "constructicons" which are all from the cartoon series Transformers. I started by drawing a basic outline of him, and then worked out the colors to use by using the actual transformer a a reference. I then did some shading and completed him before I worked on the background wall he would be busting out of. I tried to stick to the details of the wall that he's on to get the best realistic looking "break through" I could get.

Warning!

SO this is my image for this weeks word "Warning"

I knew right off the bat when I learned of this weeks word that I wanted to do something with this guy. His name is Deviljho and anyone who has played the newest Monster Hunter games (Monster Hunter Tri and Monster Hunter Portable 3rd) will instantly get this. The warning sign picture at the bottom was taken from the actual warning sign you get when you are about to face this monster.

I love playing Monster Hunter and have always wanted to do something with that game in mind and finally I am able to. Warning! This game is addicting!

Also I credit Capcom and Monster Hunter both for the "Warning" text. This text was taken from a screenshot of the game and I did not create it myself, I merely used it as an additional image to complete my image.

Mini McArticles

These are the mini images that accompany the McArticle image.

McFired!

So this is the McFired article that we illustrated for our Creative Illustration class. I took my time on it and did as much as I could without trying to make it too complicated. My interpretation of the article is more so about fighting against those trying to control you, rather than the McNifishent burger that Kyle created. So I decided to make them all puppets under the direct control of a fat, corporate Ronald McDonald and then have Kyle cutting his own strings. I like how it all turned out in the end, and I added a small bit of texture to kinda give it that construction paper like feel, make it less obvious it was done on the computer.