Sketch Dump Fridays

...And here we have the first installment of Sketch Dump Fridays! From now on, I will be posting what i have been working on during the week outside of school every Friday. Admittedly, this post has more than just a week's work but it is all pretty recent. The last two are something that came up after listening to the Nickel Creek song Green And Grey a few too many times. I realize I'm mixing my mythologies a bit here but a story came up in my head to go along with it about a satyr who falls for a banshee. I rather like the character concepts that are starting and look forward to expanding them. Anyway, enjoy! Also, WARNING: TAR BE BOOBIES!

Adventures in Posterland!

To start off the semester in my illustration class, we are working on posters--the slight catch being that they will all be submitted to a competition when we are finished and there is a bit of prize money and recognition involved (and all of the nerve-wracking pressure that comes with that). I won't go into further detail for now but I will post a few of the sketches! We were to come up with something child-friendly that had something to do with croquet. Here's what I've got so far:

Zombie Walk

My, my, how long has it been now? Apologies for the unannounced hiatus but I took a bit of a break over winter vacation to do absolutely nothing. Well, that's not exactly true... I did get in a lot of gaming and sleeping which was pretty nice. But now I'm back! New semester, new projects and new personal challenges--let's see how it unfurls!

Anyway, it isn't much but here are a few logo designs I did for a computer class. The assignment was to make a logo for some sort of fictional charity walk/run/ride in color and black and white. While there are, in fact, "zombie" walks, I have yet to see one for Milwaukee. Sad... Here are the color logos:

Another Final Project

I am finally done! Let the celebration begin!!! And with finishing, I have lots of pretty final projects to show off which I know you are just dying to see. Here is the final piece for the yearbook page that I was working on of my illustration classmates.

Enjoy!

Megan

Bats Final

After many trials and tribulations and a printer that just would not cooperate (I totally blame Mercury being in retrograde), here is my second Illustration final!!! I finished the class picture assignment already, I just need to post the results. As I said before, the instructions were to make a pre-reader counting or letter book using some historical reference. I chose bats because they were my favorite thing ever as a child and Canterbury cathedral because... You know, I couldn't actually tell you how I came to that one--it just sort of happened. But I did watch The Hunchback of Notre Dame at least five times while working on this. I could probably recite the entire movie from memory at this point, I'm sure. Well, enough craziness from me, I'm off to finish my last two projects.

Enjoy!
Megan

Busy, busy, busy!

I decided to give myself a quick break from the panic and art of finals to bring you this: my kinetic type animation! Tada! Youtube chewed up the quality a bit but it's finished!

Enjoy!

Megan

Excuse Me, Barmaid!

Here's another delightful final project for this semester! Eventually it will be like a closed captioning text animation if that makes any sense. Right now, I'm just working on the fancy little things to stick in there before I sync the text. What is the audio, you ask? Why, it's from How To Train Your Dragon, of course!

Love that part, haha. And here are my images so far:

I'm sure you can guess where they go.

Enjoy!

Megan