Cubist hands

Experimenting with cubism for an interpretive illustration class. 

"Cubism is an early-20th-century avante garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso... that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired relate movements in music, literature and architecture."

Pretty neat and weird style. Here is what I did just messing around with a golden hand:

Black metal album cover!

Some friend's of mine asked me to design a logo and album cover for their

black metal project ! It was a good time and I'm prety happy with

the result. I'll post a link to their tunes below.

Some preliminary line art:

Finished album cover:

 Ultra metal logo design:

Can you read it?!

NEKROPANDEMACHINA

Boxes and perspective

Diving into Adobe Illustrator for the first time. Not much room to be creative with these and they were... a little tedious! Necessary, but glad they're behind me!

One Point perspective:

Two point perspective, high angle:

2 point perspective, low angle:

2 point perspective, straight on:

Learning about cell shading

Work in progress. Using cell shading to colour a line drawing by Alvin Lee. Really lucky that he allowed us to use his work for school. Such outstanding line work!

Alvin Lee's incredible line work lent to us:

 Laying in the colour. I'll post the completed work when I add the light and shadow later down the road. Lots more to do!

Its worth your time to check this guy's work: ALVIN LEE

Value, Shape and Line

Just some pixelated studies, why not?

Some paintings by John Singer Sargent reduced to just 4 values.

Hell On Wheels Lego??

Yup. Cullen Bohannon as a Lego figure!

Caricature!

A quick caricature of the late Marty Feldman! Line work only.

Here is one of his skits:

Musical Painting

Just some quick-random paintings to classical music. Trying to experiment translating mood to colour! Each one was a different piece by Mozart!