Momento Mori Character Designs

These are some character designs that I did for a a friend of a friends story. The plan is to eventually make a comic version of this story but at the moment I've only had time to design the characters. Because the story has a lot of dark themes I wanted to make the comic very shadowy and noirish. Thats why all the characters are solely black and white with accents of color to help compositionally.

Oedipus

This is another piece from class. Its meant to be a title page for Oedipus Rex. Originally this was meant to be a book cover but when I was painting the piece I realized that the original background that I intended to give the piece took away from the silhouette of the sphinx resting on the cliff face. So rather than do a rocky cliff face for a background I left the background open except for a few mountains in the distance. This change really helped the piece compositionaly but in doing so it looked less like a cover and more like an interior illustration.

Also included in this post are my reference pictures of the moquettes I made for this image.

The Cad from Liverpool

This is a caricature of John Lennon for my junior studio class. I love, love, love, love, John Lennon and thought this project would be a great opportunity to do more Lennon related art (believe me I've made quiet a lot through out the years.) Also with his 70th birthday and the 40th anniversary of his death fast approaching I though it would relevant for a magazine cover like Rolling Stones

Back In Business

Hello Internet! I'm finally posting again! The next couple posts will be some school work from last semester as well as some new stuff for my portfolio. Here's an image I meant to post months ago of a card I made for my roommate's birthday. In case you were wondering thats Dumblepug headmaster of Pugwarts School of Snorting and Wheezing.

This is just a sketch I made for fun of a superhero a few of my friends and I made up. Sloth Mama's a bad ass babe who never quite makes it to the scene of the crime because of her super slow sloth speed. I've been thinking about doing a short origin story for her but I don't know If I'll ever get time to do it. As of now thats kinda on the back burner.

Scared Little Kitty Cat

This one is from my type class. It is supposed to be a drawing for a poster for a Chinese New Year celebration. I really like how the tigers facial expression turned out, I think thats why I love this picture so much.

This is another image from class. It's one of my first oils but I still really liked how it turned out so I figured I'd post it. Cheers