My Postcard

Speaking of the robot theme that I've been on for the past few months, I decided to create my official postcard with them in mind. Painting this was a challenge; I had an especially hard time with the colors, though I feel that the composition is quite nice.

Here's the back of the postcard. You'll notice that I've recycled my piece from earlier, as it fits this particular card perfectly. Oh, and that address is old, in case anyone was wondering. Also! You can find one of these right here in Savannah, in the bathroom of Gallery Espresso along with dozens of other artists postcards!

SCAD Bus Wrap Robots

Woah. I'm officially graduated from SCAD as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration, and I've been very busy moving into my new apartment in Savannah, as well as looking for and working a part time job. So I'm finally trying to keep my blog up to date. Well that's only partially correct; the overhead design label on this site has been redone to match my current marketing theme, but I'll post some recent work that I've done in my final weeks as a SCAD student. Do you like the red robot guy as my logo? 

Speaking of robots, our third assignment in the Advertising Illustration class was to design a bus wrap image, hypothetically for SCAD to use on their new vehicles. At this time, I had just finished the game Machinarium for the PC and the art style left such a heavy impression in my mind that I had to tip my hat in its' favor with this piece. We had to design both the side, and the back of the bus, and this is what I ended up with.

Side art:

Back art:

And here's the final product, with the art wrapped onto the bus templates, the SCAD logo, and a few words that were required to be placed somewhere on the vehicle. Fun fact, I seem to have messed up somehow on the dimensions, having not included the bumpers in my calculations, so I ended up stretching the art on the side panel in order to fully fit the entire side of the bus.

Seriously guys, go download and play Machinarium right now and you'll see what I mean. 

Here's a link to their official site: http://machinarium.net/demo/

Clevah Garlll....

Our first project in my Advertising Illustration class was a mock commercial ad for a new dinosaur exhibit at the Natural History Museum. The only requirement was that we had to include the front of the museum somewhere on the illustration (and it had to fit the National Geographic template).

I decided to continue the style that I had used in my previous illustration (with the earth monster). I liked the idea of having areas of color placed around other elements that were left white, and I'm still attached to the process of creating the sky layer in the background (with rubber cement and salt and the like).

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.

Mouth of the Ocean

Here is my second portfolio piece in my "mythological creatures" series.  This painting was centered around the element of water, and I wanted the creature this time to look quite different from what we've seen in the previous one. As before, I wanted the monster to look ancient, almost like statue or an idol. But unlike the previous small fire-ant creature from before, the water-spirit is  more like a giant monolithic building that towers over the skies and pours waterfalls from its mouth:

The process this time was much less cumbersome than before, and I was able to completely render out all of my pieces prior to gluing them down. This one was much easier, mostly due to the fact that the layering is much more simplified than before and I found that this is relieving to approach when you use large surfaces that are all treated and prepared differently.

Also, I have to say that I was deeply influenced by The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker with this painting. I liked the notion of adding in that human factor to these, and the lone sailor idea really was a great fit for this sort of thing.

Here's a link to the first piece in the series:

http://chris-loge.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-goose-is-gettin-cooked.html