Cartoon Guy

Haven't posted any cartoon drawings in a while, let alone guy characters.

Contrast project GRA 170

For this project, I was given a list of antonyms. My task was to illustrate 16 of those antonyms using a typeface that we have studied this semester (Bodoni, Baskerville, Garamond, Rockwell, Helvetica etc.) and pick a single letter, number or symbol from which ever font you've selected. I chose Bodoni as my font and the number '2' as my character. Bodoni is a very well designed font; I like the positive/negative space created particularly by the '2'. Here's my layout of the 16 illustrations.

Rough Concepts

Final product

The critique went quite well for my particular piece. None of the illustrations needed to be seriously re-done, just a few minor changes here and there.

Some of my favourite ones are the: large/small, concave/convex, beginning/ending, plain/decorative(especially) and subtle/coarse.

Surfer Girl

Found this image online. I really liked it, so I thought it'd be cool to draw it out for myself.

Still a work in progress. Got the pose down. Threw in my own twist when creating the character's likeness. I'll add in the flowers in Illustrator. Pretty sure there's an option for that.

Ink Master inspired piece

So I've been watching the past few episodes of a show called 'Ink Master' on Spike TV. As an artist, I can really appreciate the amount of work that goes into these tattoos as well as the outcome of the final product. The fact that the show is also hosted by Dave Navarro is a nice touch. So the show got me inspired to maybe try and build a tattoo piece of my own. Here is the first part: Colt Python

First character with no reference

This is actually the first drawing I've done without using some form of reference.

Graphic Translation practice

27th letter of the alphabet

Kind of interesting in-class project done in Typography. Using the existing letters of the alphabet as reference, I was tasked to design a 27th letter to the alphabet. For my design, I removed half of the space from the "O" and then added the dot from the letter "i". It looks like some kind of alien symbol you'd find in crop circles.