New Illustrations, finally

Finally managed to make quality time with a scanner. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Rendering

          Recently it's really come to my attention that I'm not too great at rendering with paint short of some sort of trick using line work. Looking back, this probably stems from my aversion to using pencil. I always hated the way it smudged and took so long to layer to get a decent image- and I really loathed it when people would smudge their pencil intentionally to get shading. It seemed lazy compared to the way I would use mark-making to achieve my results. I know everyone has their own way of working-- I'm not holding anything against anyone here. I'm just saying I had this aversion instilled into me at a young age for various reasons.
          Now that I find myself piss-poor at rendering I realize it's probably because I avoided one of the most versatile dry-media rendering tools around: The Pencil. I've decided to take some time to become re-acquainted. I'm used to the accidental dirty smudging now, and even kind of like it for its layering properties and wealth of techniques it supplies a (much) kneaded eraser (god I hate that joke).
          I'm taking my time. I'm going to figure this out. I'll try and do a decent pencil rendering exercise every day. I will. I'm doing it. I'm starting from the ground up.

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Sketchsitter

I haven't scanned anything in a while-- out of laziness or boredom, I don't know which.

Some sketchbook pages... some more experimental than others; yes that's Hades from Hercules-- and yes that's a blatant ripoff of Amano's drawings of Dream (Morpheus).

--and yes that's mcfadden in that mass of pen doodlery.

What I Did Over Summer Vacation

My first illustration of the school year, technically. We had to illustrate what we did over summer vacation in whatever way we chose. I decided to just depict a harem of characters occupying my attention for most of the summer, including TF2 team members, Smash Bros. (or Nintendo) characters, and Marvel intellectual property. The two games because I played (and play) them, never seeming to escape from their crushing grip-- and Marvel characters because I interned there. A lot went wrong while executing this. I'm certain you can see my errors. Ignore them, please.


It's india ink, white acrylic, more black ink, shellac (disastrous), and more white acrylic. 9x12 I think. Cheers.

Summer is Hot.

Too hot :[

Time To Update (Magic Included)

I really should have done this towards the beginning of the summer, but now I have the benefit of extra work to upload! I just updated my portfolio with some of the newer graphic design, illustration and photography I've done. Please let me know what you think, as always:

http://hunter.carbonmade.com/

The biggest thing you haven't seen is probably the movie poster and website I recently designed and illustrated for Gaetano Crupi's latest indie flick, A Magic Helmet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxgHnAKdbEc). I had a lot of fun working on this and I'm definitely excited for our future collaborations! I did just the image of the poster first (above) before Gaetano realized I'm capable of graphic design as well (though not exactly of designer stock), which resulted in me handling the type layout as well (below).



The site (below) is a far more complex project which I hope to see completed by whoever he's hiring for the programming. I'll let you all know when it's completed!

That's all for now. Thanks for listening (reading)!
-Hunter

Guidance Error

I feel like my style has no guidance this summer. I'm all over the place!
These are in Ballpoint pen, Oil, and Acrylic, respectively.