Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Profesional

Don't share earbuds, unless it's with someone you really love.




I had my second illustration go up over on Gizmodo, it was for an article on how it's not sanitary to share earbuds. I tried something different this time around, I worked completely digital. No scanned in sketches or anything like that. I had a few ideas on the design, but I just picked one out of my head and ran with it. I took a few photos of my fingers holding the earbud, and another of my ear, also went online and found some photos of microscopic bacteria. Then opened up Photoshop and went to town. I will admit, I got a little lost in this drawing, which doesn't always happen. It's nice when you can zone out on drawing, especially something as mundane as earbuds. Anyway, the top image is the first three hours of drawing, the second image is the last 2 hours. I thought the clean version turned out so well that I decided save it and post it here.

This whole Gizmodo art intern thing is pretty wild to me. Between the two illustrations that went up this week, over 90,000 people have viewed the articles. So 90,000 people have seen my art. In one week... That blows my mind. I never thought that something like this would ever happen, I had always hoped it would, but after working at this for so long with limited results... It's been a struggle to keep the fire going, I have more than once thought of putting my pen down for good, but I never will. Well, even if this is only temporary, this is a high point in my artistic career. I feel lucky to even have this chance. Thanks to Jesus Diaz and the Gizmodo crew for the opportunity.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Late night sketching


Found a plethora of cool photos today to use as sketch material. This was from one of them, just play'n around.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Friday, September 9, 2011

Monday, September 5, 2011

Skech'n


I was working on portraits, but just couldn't get in the zone. So I scraped it and did this instead.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Samples







Here are the three sample assignments GIZMODO had me do. I think they came out pretty well for rushing through them as fast as I did. They took me between three and a half to five hours to complete, not bad, but I could be faster.