BOT Challenge 2

I guess Im going to commandeer this BOT challenge for this week. We had a pretty good turn out (3 people) and I think we can try this again.

This week's topic is "Something Old, Something New"

We all have that one project that we would really like to finish one day, or revise an old piece for the portfolio. Or something that we had a lot of fun doing and would love to spend more time, but other things seem more important. For this week, look back and find something that you always promised yourself you would finish, and..... finish it!

Tuesday Sketches

Thursday WOP

It doesn't look like the critique takes as long as I though so the due date is 8:00 PM Sunday.

GET TO IT!!!!

Vulture BOT 1

Shit yeah, with 5 minutes to spare! As always, (as it was in school) I was super disappoint with the first attempt at the project, the one I was posting. Half way through it I though it looked amateurish and retarded. So after spend hours on it, I had to scrap it. I put on my big boy illustrator pants and wanted to do something that could conceivably be an illustration in an article or some shit. You know, we all want to be in the New Yorker! Im much more pleased with my second attempt. I got to talk on the phone with the last years Illustrator judge, and he told me that illustrators are important because of the concepts. Anyway, let me have it! 

Look at this poop, and laugh in my face. 

Vulture

Vulture ala Last Dove. They crawl out of the underworld to touch your butt gather the essence of those who have been slain. By themselves they aren't particularly dangerous but their presence tends to make people uneasy because of what they represent. Accidental deaths have been reported in their wake. Most cases involve the parties untimely demise while frantically trying to flee.

Final will probably be ink by hand and may or may not be colored. We'll see. + Environment and hopefully more clarity in the final too.

Just gonna quietly assume no one else is doing this... .

SQUARE BRUSH, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

Liek the title says. I am really digging using a square brush. Dunno, but it really feels liek painting. Square brush without variable width, its like paining with a stick (not literarly, but we also done that, remember? Christiana town, paintging with hands sticks & feet????!?!one!)

Whats your favorite brush, dear reader?

portfolio book prototype.

Im working out (Im sexy and I know it) a portfolio book to send out to potential employers, because I'm a corporate whore sell out and I want to have a 9 to 5 design job. I want something to look nice and to show to people to keep, and also keep it inexpensive.

Im testing Create-space printing and its interesting. They are sort of dicks about the file preparation and getting things shipped on time. Their pages are also not glossy, which doesn't do much for images. Although they are cheap, and their perfect bind isn't that bad at all. This book is just something to sell or give away, because its got a random collection of images I made last year, but the final book will have the crop of the cream.

Resume Feedback?

Hey, guys, I thought it'd be cool to share my resume and get some feed back. The Resume is an all in one envelope, where the flaps function to close the resume and also hold illustrations. From all the other resumes I've seen this is really really different... I hope that is okay, but we'll see.

So far the only annoying part of this is the fact it's a bit bigger than your normal letter size. But it is definitely handy. Figuring out the digital coloring is a bit of a pain but I think I like how it's coming out. No detering from the linework. I think I need to downsize the font a little more as well.

Anyhow, let me know what you think! This is only the inside of the envelope.