Tarbean
An alley in Tarbean from Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle | Personal Work
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Visual Development Process & Concept Art
Props designed for the Waystone Inn from Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle | Personal Work Value and color comps for an alley in Tarbean from Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle | Personal Work Color variations for Kvothe’s design from Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle | Personal Work Thumbnails of Kvothe from Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle | Personal Work Thumbnails of Treasure Island | Personal […]
My Art in a Book!
Last month I received an invitation from Daniel Cooney to contribute a few of my clothing studies in his new book for Barron’s Educational series titled Figure Drawing for Comics and Graphic Novels. Specifically, he asked for permission to use some of my work in his section on clothing folds. Dan is an accomplished comics writer […]
Fear of Failure
Somewhere along the way you came to believe that you can’t draw or design. Someone, maybe another kid, a parent, a teacher said something critical and you believed that your drawing was no good. Or maybe you sailed through those years confident in your abilities but ran into a wall when your work was reviewed […]
Photoshop Perspective Path Tool Courtesy of DiGi-Art
Do you get bored setting up your perspective lines when drawing a landscape or cityscape? Want to save time and get back to the fun part – drawing?! Well, thanks to Johnny Quan, a member of DigiPaint, the Facebook critique and resource network I founded for Academy of Art University members, I learned about a […]
City of Shadows: Everything Falls Apart
City of Shadows Poster | Commissioned by Skeleton Crew | Featured in the 2013 Academy of Art University Spring Show Notes: Poster illustration commissioned by Skeleton Crew for their City of Shadows web-series; text by Dustin Sklavos. The theme is a complex one – it’s about coping with psychological injury suffered through unavoidable attraction. Allyson is still recovering […]
My Zombie Husband
Title: My Zombie Husband Year: 2011 Medium: Graphite & Colored Pencil Size: 8.5″ x 14″ Notes: This was originally a character design with a focus on rendering realistic folds from a collection of reference photos. In cases like this, I applied my understanding of fabric and folds in this to make an unnatural body with broken limbs look realistic […]
Quick Clothed Figure Drawings!
These are quick (5-20 minute) drawings of live models and studies of their clothing and folds from class this last summer of 2011. Studies like these help me to understand how the body is held underneath clothing and how different fabrics behave when wrapped around it. These quick studies gave me an opportunity to practice […]
Suit Study in Pencil
Title: Suit Study in Pencil Year: 2011 Medium: Graphite Pencil Size: 8.5″ x 14″ Notes: A study of compression and stretch folds – specifically action folds, half-lock folds, and zig-zag folds for my class on clothed figure drawing. Studying folds like these helps me to understand how different kinds of fabric interact with the body. […]
Draping Dress Study in Pencil
Title: Draping Dress Study in Pencil Year: 2011 Medium: Graphite Pencil Size: 8.5″ x 14″ Notes: A study of compression and stretch folds – specifically action folds, pipe folds, and drop folds for my class on clothed figure drawing. Studying folds like these helps me to understand how different kinds of fabric interact with the […]
Video Games and Addiction
I think it’s important to understand the entertainment media I’d like to contribute to (video games) and the social issues surrounding it. That’s why I’m taking a class on the History of Games in AAU’s Games Department as part of my MFA in Illustration program. There’s a lot of hype out there in the news […]