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I recently attended the Illustration Master Class up at Amherst College. The result was this illustration, a very loose interpretation of Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. I feel like I stepped my game up just a bit on this one, and its got me excited to jump on my next illustration.]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:16:48 +0000 http://mclean.cgsociety.org/gallery/710979

This is another rework of an older image. Atmospheric perspective was a big concern for me on this one, in addition (at the end) of distributing punches of color around the whole image to further unify it. In other words, make sure that some of that violet from down below is in the sky colors, make sure that there's red in the mountain range instead of JUST the fore-ground, etc. Stuff like that. I had a good time working on this image, it started as me intending to just go back and render up a few things more tightly, and it turned into almost a whole new piece!]]> Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:15:01 +0000 http://mclean.cgsociety.org/gallery/707146

This was a rework of an earlier piece I did under a year ago, for part of my senior thesis. Now that things like Spectrum and Expos are coming up, I felt like it was time to go back and dust off some of the illustrations with potential to be a lot better than they are. I was pretty happy with the compositiona nd palette on this piece, and its always good to be able to add a lizard in there. Also my first time trying to paint blood. ]]> Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:40:16 +0000 http://mclean.cgsociety.org/gallery/635999

This is a piece I did for my senior year of art school. I was shooting for something that compositionally would read well when reduced, in addition to a striking complimentary color palette. Overall I was pretty pleased with this image, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to keep pushing to make this stuff the best it can be.

I think if there's anything I'm uber-interested in, its any further insight into color that some of you might have, I still feel like my grasp of it isn't as intuitive as I'd like. ]]> Tue, 27 May 2008 17:39:07 +0000 http://mclean.cgsociety.org/gallery/636000

This is another work from my senior thesis, the second one chronologically. Once again I am relying on a complimentary color palette to ensure vibrancy, as well as a composition that will read when reduced. I think that the anatomy here, in retrospect, is not as strong as it should have been. Once again, any insights are appreciated, especially in the color dept.]]> Tue, 27 May 2008 17:46:48 +0000