Everything Will Be Alright

My last image/ process as part of Sheridan College's Illustration program. Below I put the final, roughs, linear, and colour variations.

Through With The Old World

Alternate Version

Final Version

Process Video

We Are Future Homesick

Unofficial pictures of the (currently) unfinished Traded Stars book. You can see it in person at the

2012 Sheridan Illustration Grad Show.

Thursday April 19th at the Glass Factory

99 Sudbury Street Toronto.

You can also see the story continue at www.tradedstars.com

(hand model/ photographer: Rachel Idzerda)

I won't let my moods ruin this you'll see

Some process work for today's page of Traded Stars; page 61.

This page I did a little differently and recorded the process, so I thought I would share that process here.

I started off with thumbnails of the layout/ compositions. Then instead of going ahead and drawing those thumbnails, I drew in the background of the page first. Followed by drawing the people on top.

The last page is where you can see exactly what I drew on top and where I had to erase to accommodate the characters.

You can see I stick fairly close to the thumbnails, but I don't mind changing panels to better suit the flow of the page. The last panel was changed so that the last three images all flowed together in one direction visually.

Following All The Rules And Not Asking Why

This illustration was done for an article about how society can sometimes call anyone who enlists in the army a hero, even though heroes should be considered people who go above and beyond the call of duty. So the question becomes; who do we consider a hero?

I have the finished illustration here, as well as some of my other ideas/ composition studies/ and a linear.

The Saints of Science

Stephen Hawking

Neil Degrasse Tyson

Portrait assignment stages

Some roughs, test inks, and linears of Stephen Hawking and Neil Degrasse Tyson, followed by the final portrait of Neil Degrasse Tyson.

All Is Calm, All Is Bright

Merry Christmas

Only 17 But We Were Going To Be Stars

Sometime between the graphic design, the business, writing essays, and drawing comics, I managed to expand an older illustration from the summer. I also updated my website with more illustrations and soon I'll be putting this up there. Just haven't had a chance during the school semester. I was pleased with how this page turned out and miss just drawing single images from time to time. Will definitely be doing that more next semester.

All You Can Do Is Just Wait By The Moon

An actual nightmare for my third Narrative assignment; all about digging deeper.

They Were Kids That I Once Knew

www.tradedstars.com

I've created a webcomic which you can check out at the above site. I've been working on the website and the comic almost nonstop the past month and a half; it's finished now, updates three times a week and as of this writing, I have 6 pages posted.

This is a little info illustration that will give you an idea about what the comic is about and who the characters are. This image can also be found on the 'New Readers' page of the website.

Don't Believe A Word That I Haven't Heard

Assignment two for narrative class.

Figure I could use the class as a chance to do small scale experiments with storytelling and drawing style. Just a time to have fun for me.

All The Voices Sound Just Like You

This was for an assignment in my Narrative Class. Had to create four panels that included either 'What's that supposed to mean?' or 'Are you alright?'

For my final I used characters from my thesis (the thesis project being the big project all fourth year illustrators at Sheridan work on for the year), and an assignment from another class I'm actually not in. Another professor told his students to work the theme of good and evil into one piece of their thesis, and if they couldn't do it, then it probably wasn't a very strong thesis to begin with. I thought it was worth trying out... So I got to kill two birds with one stone.

Also, I included my original rough/ thumbnail of the final and of my other two ideas below.

Descended A Dusty Gravel Ridge

Was working on a comic for fun earlier this summer, decided to open it at a different point, so these pages have been moved elsewhere. Did I draw three pages of someone skipping rocks on an alien planet? yes. Does it make more sense in context? probably. But what you going to do really?

Barefoot in the shallow creek

I grabbed some stones from underneath

And waited for you to speak to me

Bixby Canyon Bridge - Death Cab for Cutie

Washing Off My Name

In The Ocean Washing Off My Name From Your Throat

I've been taking August fairly easy, Illustration wise. This is a small piece from an upcoming project. I'll continue to update this month, just unsure with what yet. Winging the last month of my summer.

Why in the Night Sky are the Lights Hung?

This is an Echo of the Pacific Blues. Where that piece was about feeling lost in this world, this one is more about being found.

We Found Each Other in the Dark

This piece, to me, acts as the beginning and the end to the past series of images, just depending on how you like your story to end. I didn't put in a word in this one, but if I had, it would have been BREAK.

Added in the black and white of the house because I felt it was fairly strong on its own.

Children Grown on the Edge of the Ocean

Children grown on the edge of the ocean

Kept like jewelry, kept with devotion

- Fleet Foxes

Easy As It Sounds, Never Quite As Easily Done

An Interlude

I Will Let You Grow, No Need to Know This