Chris Giannini CD

Was assigned to illustrate Chris Giannini's album "If It's Me".

Here are a few samples





This was a concept I worked on before deciding on the final illustration above.

Natasha Illustration

I'd like to thank Natasha for letting me use one of her photos to illustrate from!

Many more to come, I plan on making this a huge illustrative project! (hopefully sooner then later)

Aye Aye Chihuahua

Lazy Sunday drawings

TB1 concepts

Just posting some old work I did a couple months ago. Anyway, played around with some different lettering positions, textures, colors for the logo I made for TB1.

The client wanted the same look in the logo, however something a bit more simple and iconic. The logo was meant to be used for twitter, and his track covers on iTunes. I'll post the final version soon, even though you can spot it on his website.

Angry Man

Quick doodle in Illustrator

Chris Giannini Website

It's been awhile since I updated!

Anyway here's some work I did for a client a.k.a Chris Giannini (a musician/artist/filmmaker)

He was looking for some sketchy like illustrations for his music website. With that said I created the layouts and illustrations for the entire site, however there are some minor issues that need to be fixed by the web programmer. Some of the rollovers aren't linked properly and don't show the right color, also there's some white backing from the illustrations that need to be cleaned out to avoid the pixelated look on the edge.

Either way I still thought it be cool to share, so enjoy!

CHRIS GIANNINI WEBSITE

Dirty Greaser

Couldn't sleep, so I drew this.

Montreal's New Super Hero

Something I did for fun, was inspired by the big flashing sign of "Super Sex" club on St.Catherines, Montreal.

Sour Wine & Cheese

Started out good and then by the end it turned into one big disaster.

Anyways I snapped some reference photos then rendered my illustration it with warm grey Tria markers. Not sure why, but I absolutely hate the Tria brand, whatever happened to the old school Letraset markers? Those were the bomb, maybe I'll invest in some Copic markers next year.

Stuff I learned:

- Don't rush with markers especially wet on wet (black smudges)
- Don't create a background with markers unless you've sketched it first
- Don't overlap too many shades, or you get that wash off shiny effect
- AVOID black contour lines when trying to achieve realism (bad habit!)
- Figure out your highlights before coloring in the whole piece
- Make sure to have something solid if you do fill in highlights

Illustrated Travel Ads

First off, let me say that the scan quality came out pretty bad. It makes all the marker rendering quite grainy, and I'm not happy with that.

Anyways our class project consisted of us illustrating 4 travel ads with markers on letraset paper. I ended up doing "Unique Sports" that are specific to it's location. My favorite one is the Mexico ad, but not the scanned version. If it was only possible to make a copy just as smooth as the original.

Polrus

Class assignment was to create a revolutionized animal based on an existing animal.

Polar bear meets Walrus hehe!

Blue Hipster Stuff

Fat Cat

Queen of Daytime TV

I already miss Oprah! :(

Mob Boss Character

Right now I'm in the process of making a model sheet for my character. Not sure what to name him yet, anyways it's for my animation class and I can't wait to put him in motion.

I'll try to upload the final model sheet & animation once I'm done. On a side note if any of you can think of a name for this little guy let me know!

UPDATE: (Sept 26/ 2010)

The final 2 pages of my model sheet, poses, expression and body actions, 2 emotional and 2 physical. Right now I'm in the process of animating a jump cycle, and so forth which I'll post later!

Elektrek Clients: David-A

CLIENT: David-A

LOCATION: Montreal, QC

BIO: Coming Soon

WORK DONE: Custom Butterfly Logo and Shirts

Kernel Sanders

Illustration & Design: Year 1
Project: Caricature Sculpture
Time: 2Hrs

This project was pretty fun. Our assignment was to choose a recognizable figure and sculpt a caricature of them with any type of material we wanted to use. I had a couple of ideas, but a friend of mine suggested doing Kernel Sanders as a joke and well I just couldn't resist the idea. I have to admit I was a little concerned at first because I wasn't quite sure how to go about the project, but after a couple sketches the idea and materials needed seemed a bit more clear.

For instance I started off with paper mach and newsprint, it was a total and utter fail. So instead of frustrating myself over glue and newspaper I decided it be best to buy a Styrofoam head at the wig store. Bought the head, and later used Model Magic clay for the features of the face. The body of the sculpture was regular bed foam, stacked and glued together. I carved off the shoulders and then dressed him with fabric and ribbon for his bow. The face was later spray painted and cotton balls were glued for facial hair. The remaining details were painted, and props were added to ensure some redeeming qualities of the caricature.

Hope you enjoyed!

Materials: Styrofoam Head, Modelling Magic, Spraypaint, Paint, Foam, Cotton Balls, Ribbon, Fabric and Props

Colour Theory - Hand Study

Illustration & Design Semester 2
Study: Colour Theory of Hand
Tools: Acrylics & Fabricastle Brush Pens
Time: 30 min

Rufus & Friends

Illustration & Design: Fuzzy Wuzzy
Project details: Illustrate a stuffed animal in a kid's room
Tools: Derwent Watercolor Ivory Black pencil + Prismacolor black

Human Head Study

Illustration & Design: Human Head In-Class Study
Project: Draw 3 heads, [One Geometric, Portrait, Skull Anatomy]