Monthly Archives: October 2009

Spike Jonze

Written by mikellis. Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under Digital Media, Illustration, Illustrator. 2 Comments.

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This is a portrait illustration of director Spike Jonze. We’ve all seen or want to see his latest film, Where The Wild Things Are, which was released 2 weeks ago. I’ve always loved his work, especially his music videos, they have a real charm to them that can only be referenced back to Jonze. This illustration was inspired by a web article I read a few weeks ago.

Here is a 2nd version and my first rough version I mocked up in illustrator. Most of the work in the final was done using illustrator as well, but a lot of blending and textures, as well as light was modified in photoshop. Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Final Version with Frame:

Spike-Jonze-w.frame

Pértsy- Birdman 3.0

Written by mikellis. Posted on October 13, 2009. Filed under Digital Media, Illustrator, Uncategorized. 3 Comments.

LIMITED-ED.-POSTER

Here’s my final for a digital media assignment. The project was to create a unique designer toy as well as a limited edition print promoting your character. I named my character Pértsy, which I believe translates to hot peppers in Russian. It’s slang for “cool kids”.

The character and the poster were done entirely using Illustrator. This was my first attempt at using the gradient mesh tool, but I think I got a good handle on it. Click on the second image to enlarge it. The original dimensions were 8.5 by 11 inches, but I could see this being blown up to full poster size. I will probably end up reusing the scenery in this poster for the animation I am doing with Finlay Paterson.

Pertsy

Too much Television

Written by mikellis. Posted on October 5, 2009. Filed under Artwork, Digital Media. 1 Comment.

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Final for Paul Dallas’ class. The assignment was to illustrate our guilty pleasure, mine happened to be too much t.v. or the trashiness of what I end up watching late at night. The raccoon on the trash can and the eye displayed on the top television screen were elements I had added later to create more depth to the concept.

My inspiration for the style of this piece was taken from rotoscoping used in films such as “Waltz with Bashir” and “A Scanner Darkly”. Overall there were a few slip-ups in the final execution and colour correction, but I am about 80% happy with it.

Started with pen and pencil drawings, scanned into photoshop and retouched. T.V.s were coloured in Illustrator, Raccoon and trash can were done in Illustrator as well. I don’t usually work with dark imagery, so the whole pallet of this piece was a bit difficult for me to decide on. Everything was pieced together in photoshop and textures were added to each individual element to give more definition to the objects. A final overlay of coarse paper was added to the flattened image to give a bit more of a crafty feel to it.