tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42103626281036332282024-03-14T03:15:25.812-04:00The EggshellAlex Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289371217524369964noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210362628103633228.post-80628877656847303542011-11-23T00:23:00.002-05:002011-11-23T00:25:07.103-05:00Now located on my site at <a href="http://alexboake.com/blog">Boake Blog</a>.Alex Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289371217524369964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210362628103633228.post-30241379330514300222009-10-23T16:49:00.003-04:002009-11-03T23:46:50.446-05:00---thesis<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/sieze_finalcomp_WEB.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 449px; height: 290px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/sieze_finalcomp_WEB.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Accidental Abduction<br />----<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/waterworks_FinalA.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 399px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/waterworks_FinalA.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Waterworks<br />----<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/nauseaocean_SMALL-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 382px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/nauseaocean_SMALL-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Nausea Ocean<br />----<br /></div>Alex Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289371217524369964noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210362628103633228.post-62991464076675090072009-03-26T11:06:00.004-04:002009-03-26T11:13:12.885-04:00Water for Elephants<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/RobertToozakeru/Water%20For%20Elephants/waterforelephants_edit2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/RobertToozakeru/Water%20For%20Elephants/waterforelephants_edit2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>So, for my core illustration class, we were assigned to design a book cover for the novel <span style="font-style: italic;">Water for Elephants</span> by Sarah Gruen. Luckily, I'd read this a few months ago, so it was pretty easy for me to do something more narrative, or that related to the characters. I'm not that happy with the colours, in fact I kind of like my original paintings better. Maybe I'll comp them together again from scratch at some point. My professor seemed to like it, though, so it's not all bad.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/RobertToozakeru/Water%20For%20Elephants/marlena_clr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 217px;" src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/RobertToozakeru/Water%20For%20Elephants/marlena_clr.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/RobertToozakeru/Water%20For%20Elephants/rosie_clr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 217px;" src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/RobertToozakeru/Water%20For%20Elephants/rosie_clr.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/RobertToozakeru/Water%20For%20Elephants/ja_au.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 208px;" src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b181/RobertToozakeru/Water%20For%20Elephants/ja_au.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Alex Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289371217524369964noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210362628103633228.post-26502778108880141592009-03-13T12:14:00.002-04:002009-03-13T12:20:29.212-04:00Narcissism<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/alex_portrait_gr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 189px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/alex_portrait_gr.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />I did a little greyscale portrait of myself for one of my drawing classes. Ink on illustration board. Usually I will use ink on watercolour paper, so this was a little bit different for me. The ink did handle nicely on the surface, though, so I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Then I decided to return to my evil Photoshop ways and colourize it. Also quite happy with how this turned out! Maybe will try this technique out again some time. The contrast is pretty good, I think.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/alex_portrait_tweak_cl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 524px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/alex_portrait_tweak_cl.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Alex Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289371217524369964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210362628103633228.post-71209560834805841162009-03-03T14:37:00.002-05:002009-03-03T14:43:52.944-05:00He's the Goddamn Batman<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/batman_small.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 308px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/batman_small.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />A quick watercolour painting of Batman, holding Robin's cape and eye mask. What's the message here? Well, that Batman's cape will swoosh even when other fabric is unaffected. Whoops. I'm happy with the how the painting itself turned out, though.Alex Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289371217524369964noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210362628103633228.post-46246350417544012372009-03-01T22:05:00.003-05:002009-03-01T22:31:18.186-05:00Tea BoxesFor my core illustration class, we had to design a set of tea boxes for Starbucks, based on legends from India, Japan and China. The legends we were given were, frankly, uninspiring, so I searched around for some that I thought would work better together--and so that I could use celestial imagery for the toppers.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/Rabbit_box.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/Rabbit_box.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/rabbit_moongoddess.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 242px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/rabbit_moongoddess.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The rabbit is based on "The Rabbit in the Moon" legend, which is general to Japan, China and Korea, but we didn't really have to do a write up, so I guess I cheated a bit in that regard. I originally had a goddess to go with it, since that is part of the legend, but my Professor suggested that maybe it would be too much. (I agree!)<br /><br />That hair would have been really fun to render, though. Woe, alas.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/Elephant_box.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/Elephant_box.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This one got really dumbed-down due to time constraints. It's based on an Indian legend about the mother star, and her children--two who are ungrateful and do not bring her back gifts from their journeys, and one who brings her back food, hidden under her fingernails. Got a little lost in translation, here.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/Monkey_box-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/Monkey_box-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This one was based on the legend of the Monkey King. I think this is my favourite out of the three, mostly because it has the most energy. Good flow.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/landscape.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 132px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/landscape.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/waterfall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/waterfall.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The drawings for this were all done in pencil and ink. It's a style I think I need to explore more, because I think it reads really nicely when it's all composited together digitally. (Can't escape the digital, I really can't.) It's a really great way of getting the tones down, too, and then colorizing.<br /><br />It was a worthwhile project, overall.Alex Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289371217524369964noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210362628103633228.post-21386818222495496682009-03-01T21:55:00.005-05:002009-03-01T22:04:36.364-05:00Painting practiceGenerally speaking, I'm shit at painting, I'll admit it. Especially traditionally--oh man! Anyway, I wanted to do some digital painting practice with a couple of characters, using greyscales to get the contrast right and then colorizing them. Worked pretty well.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/ghosts.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 553px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/ghosts.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Of course it looks kind of weird without the multiply layers on top! Haha.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/olcor_preview.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 556px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/olcor_preview.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I did resort to my cheaterly ways by putting a colourizing layer over top to warm it up and unify the colours. Ah, how I love working digitally.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/olcor_final2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 555px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/olcor_final2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Alex Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289371217524369964noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4210362628103633228.post-39534881918153681952007-11-17T14:30:00.001-05:002009-03-01T21:53:59.548-05:00~<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/alex_gorssportrait.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/yagimazaki/alex_gorssportrait.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Alex Boakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16289371217524369964noreply@blogger.com0