And the earth shakes...!

And finally, my final for portfolio, which stands in at number three in my series of elemental paintings. This time, I used minimal moving parts in that there are only a few layers of cut-out paper instead of layers-upon-layers like in the previous two. I suppose that I was wanting to prove to myself that I could still draw with this one, instead of relying on a gimmick, if that makes sense. 

I'm proud of this one; I spent a lot of time on the different aspects of the ink drawings. I was trying to see how differently-rendered objects placed next to each other can appear, using pen-and-ink style against my cartoony-painting style. Maybe one day I'll pick up this series again; I really had a great time with these.

Links to the previous two paintings in the series:
http://chris-loge.blogspot.com/2011/03/ah-my-second-portfolio-piece-in-my.html
http://chris-loge.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-goose-is-gettin-cooked.html

Facebook: The Consumer's Beast of Burden, an editorial illustration

Here's my final for Type and Image. It's an editorial piece, so we had to research articles and figure out what we'd like to focus in on. I had read an article a while back about companies essentially using facebook as their main source of advertisement and as a result, facebook becomes more and more burdened (and dictated) by third parties. This wasn't my first choice for a piece actually, but that's sort of the process when it comes to editorial work; sometimes it takes a really long time to get motivated by just the news and research and other times you end up going with your third or fourth idea.

Lava Chicken!

Our third project for Type and Image was a package design, any image we wanted that went along with type, as per usual. I chose hot sauce because I remember seeing all sorts of crazy hot sauce bottles back in Fort Collins. What I ended up with was this:

I admit that I really struggled with this one, mostly due to the fact that I had never used layouts or formatted different sides of a box. It was difficult to figure out where things would be placed on which side, what to put on all of the sides, etc. I still like the character though.