a comic

Been working trying to do a comic to prove to myself I can actually finish something, today I decided that rather than do the whole thing, then scan the whole thing, then colour the whole thing, I would do it a page at a time, so here is page 1:

sick, so sick

may contain dreams

For my end-o-year illustration project we were given the guidelines of "do anything". A kind of project I have never liked and which is so obviously a trap for the unwary art student.
The original concept popped nearly fully formed into my brain back when I thought I had only a week to complete it. Thankfully this was not the case and I had time to make it look all pretty.
The idea isn't terribly deep but reflects my experience with illustration, just images from imagination and daydreams.
Anyway it's three images that are meant to be viewed one over the other, like so:

art weekend

I am at the end of a weekend consisting of nothing but work, me sitting at my desk working on projects and essays and all manner of unpleasant things. At the moment I am assigning myself a tentative "done for now".
Here are some photos, you wouldn't be able to tell from looking at them, but on the other side of that camera I am holding my aching back and sobbing quietly.

Here I'm working on the pieces for a Lord of the Flies cover.

A closer look...

Another piece, my intention was to make as much as I could traditionally then put it all together and pretty it up some with photoshop.

Now a project where we were called to make a spot illustration for a New York Times article on the Financial Crisis Inquiry report.

On to a different class now, a self portrait using all the colours in the  we use in class.

If anyone can guess what movie I'm watching then they win the Internet.

A closer look at those soulless eyes...

And now lets see the finished products:

Lord of the Flies cover. While I'm happy with the pig head and the flies, I'm not terribly satisfied with the background, I had to put it through some filters because the scan was too high contrast and it over powered everything else.

Spot illustration. The article it relates to concluded by saying politics were to blame for the sloppiness of the Financial Inquiry report so I have the donkey and the elephant going around each other trying to do their own thing. A couple minutes ago I added the text in because I'm very worried that I totally missed the point of the article (the text is from the report).

I hate politics.

Oh god what is it?!

While my self portrait didn't turn out... awful, I've decided to take a prolonged break from it, I'll try and work on it more later in the week. The glasses definitely need work.

So thats that for now, I also scanned a bunch of sketchbook pages but they may have to wait, while pretty much all of my work is now done I still have my illustration culminating to tackle.

Fun times abound.