Illustration 5

The assignment was to create a poster for a movie you made up. There's some ambiguity in the image as to what the story might be, but I like that kind of mystery. For this project I was most interested in drawing a colorful environment, so I focused on that.

Illustration 4

Illustration 3

The assignment was to depict a scene from different times of the day. I decided to do a video that flows from one time to the next, going for a dreamlike quality. I tried to be somewhat impressionistic with it.

Illustration 2

The next project for the illustration class was to create an image with a story. This story needed to combine three elements - a character from myth, a news headline, and a local setting. My mythical character was the kasa obake, which is basically a Japanese umbrella monster. The news headline was "Graveyard of Umbrellas at the Democratic National Convention" of which I just used the "graveyard of umbrellas" part. Finally, I set the piece at the Redmond Town Center, which is mostly an outdoor mall. One thing I found amusing about the mall is that there are umbrellas all around the area which people are free to use (and return when they're finished) while at the mall. So the three elements formed a natural fit in my mind. Here it is:

Illustration

A recent assignment was to illustrate a scene each from three Brothers Grimm stories. The stories were pre-chosen by the professor: The Wonderful Musician, The Elves and the Shoemaker, and Doctor Know-All.  I attempted a few different styles and experimented with methods for choosing and placing color and tone.

The scene from The Wonderful Musician where the woodsman defends the musician from the forest animals-

The scene from The Elves and the Shoemaker where the shoemaker first discovers the shoes made by the elves - 

And finally, the scene from Doctor Know-All where Crabbe, a poor peasant, visited a doctor's house. This is when Crabbe decided to become a doctor himself -