Airbrush....

Needless to say, airbrush sucks. Really, I hate it. But rather than sit here just complaining, I guess I'll go into detail and such based on this little planet.

This went so many directions during it's execution. I tried a different planet first, one with rings, but that wasn't working out, at all really. Think this amount of execution, and then make it worse. Really, bad news. So then I tried a simpler planet...  I already had some orange in the airbrush, so Mars was the answer.

But as you can see, the mask was a litle dirty, then I got a little excited with the saturation, and then I put the mask over my planet a little too soon, causing the frisket to rip out some of the color and leave a little residue and with all of that, I would get giong doing something and them hit the airbrush to hard, making everything I attempted to seem impossible. Ahh--this was really frustrating.

So I moved on to my fruit. Again, my first attempt wasn't so great... I tried a pineapple. I not only wasted a ton of yellow dye, but I also go overly and unduely frustrated with the idea of airbrushing once again. I couldn't get my mask to make the little triangles I wanted, or create the leaves in a normal fashion, so, again, I moved on.

This time to a banana.

Challenges to this aside, it turned out much better than I originally expected. Originally I was going to make it a green banana, but I hada couple issues with pressure, and then it turned into a ripe banana, as I got a little carried away with some of the shadows, and just my poor execution in general, and was trying to cover up my mistakes with the brown. Next time I'd add in more darker shades, expectially to areas like the stem and would emphasize more of the plains of the banana.

Needless to say, with all the hardships airbrush has already caused me, I am in no way mentally or physically prepared for this cheesy airbrush, so it looks like I am def going to be starting this project over a couple times. it will surely be an interesting adventure.

Compin' It Up

Doing some comps for all sorts of projects coming up.
First off: the CD cover

I played with several different ideas for this one, playing with a lot of different titles, and in the end, I think I overthought the situation a little bit. In the end, I'm planning on make this wonky--like not completely straight--to add a little interest, and despite the album name being "Magnetic North" there's also a possibility the compass won't actually go straight. with that, I think the background is either going to be a solid dark blue, or a map. Comping will continue.

And now to my cheesy comp.

I was having a tough time coming up with an idea for this one, so I do as all great creative minds do: a google image search. Typing "cheesy" into the search bar, doesn't actually yield all that amazing results... really, nothing was really cheesy. If you try it for yourself, you'll be a little dissapointed, I was. It wasn't until the 5th page I came across a cheeseburger, and there it goes.

I still can't help to think about a cuddly panda, but a little cartoonized panda I don't feel is as literally or even figuratively cheesy, so will probably end up sticking to this hanburger. Yeah, I feel it'd work out well.

And the book cover.

 I'm still not sold on this, really at all. I'm def going to recomp... probably focus more on the car... maybe go black and white for all except the yellow car?  We'll see. Expect that TBA

Whoops, It's been too long. But hey, 3 Image Gouache Montage

Wow, it's been a while. Whoops, I guess I've really just been absorbed in this gouache montage situation. All and all, this one was quite the challenge. Ok, so the main challenge was that pig. I was having a super hard time getting the different tones and everything right. But looking at a pig I painted in the beginning (actually looking at anything I painted in the beginning...) this looks so so much better. I still can't say my illustration is a strong point in design for me, but all the same, I can say I'm more on top of it than I was previously.