the Dragon of the Valley

This past semester I had a class on children's book illustration, and with each project I sort of cobbled together a loose narrative I ended up calling "the Dragon of the Valley". I sort of want to actually make it into a proper book, and one day I hope I can.

While it's in order here, these were done a bit out of order, the two double-page spreads were one project, then the vignettes, and then the final project of the year was the cover and inside title.

An entire semester and the warrior and the dragon never even got to start their fight.

School Arts

A project for school, we were told to pick a review of a recent movie or album and create an editorial to go along with it, I chose a review of Drive from the New Yorker.

 http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2011/09/26/110926crci_cinema_lane?currentPage=all

A school project: We were given an article about the ten stereotypical types of therapist and told to illustrate three. I chose the Pill-Pusher, who just proscribes pills to solve any problem, the Comedian, who uses all the information he gets in his sessions to bolster his comedy act, and the Dream Dissector, who thinks the root of all issues lies in over-analyzing dreams. 

A project for school: We were given the 48 Laws of Power and randomly selected two to draw. I got 3 and 21, 3 turned out terribly, this is 21.

 Law 21

Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker – Seem Dumber than your Mark

No one likes feeling stupider than the next persons.  The trick, is to make your victims feel smart – and not just smart, but smarter than you are.  Once convinced of this, they will never suspect that you may have ulterior motives.

Laws of Power: http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/cg/courses/cgt411/covey/48_laws_of_power.htm