Punks Vs Mods

For Marcos Chin's fashion illustration class, we had to illustrate the theme "Fashion Wars" so I chose Punks Vs. Mods. This image has gone through a ton of editing, and I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out. Lemme know what you think pleaseeeeee I need yo love to fill my brainnn. Anyway, so yeah I've been working on this image a lot lately, and I've got a two projects left for Tomer's class and an awesome Munny surface design project I'm going to spend my lonely Thanksgiving in my dorm room doing this week :] so yeahhhhh I'm gunna try to update as soon as I have more things worthy of showing. Also, new website layout almost done. Its ridonculous.

ALSO I've been wicked lazy lately and had chipotle the past three nights for dinner, and low and behold these pictures were taken this morning when I was in bed before I decimated my toilet. :/




on that note EVERYONE HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING. BE SAFE PLEASE. EAT TURKEY. AHHHH chaaa
-Steve

A Brave New World

This was for Tomer's class, and its probably the first image I've done that I'm really satisifed with, portfolio wise. The assignment was to pick your favorite book and Illustrate a cover for it, so I did A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I think it came out pretty good, a few days of tweaking after my crit and yeah blah blah. Tomer and Marcos have been having me experiment with different approaches to color my stuff digitally so lately I've been pushing a lot of offset colors with a limited pallet. We'll see how it carries itself. In other news, I updated my blog as you can see. Now its all fancy and such. I'm gunna try to start pushing and using my twitter a lot more too so that should be fun. not really. NOM. Also, in two weeks I should have my profile and artwork on the schools website under the undergraduate student work section! I'll be updating another piece soon so check back in a few! AH oh and follow me on twitter and be cool.

-Steve

Movie Poster Designs

Full Size pay off with a half inch boarder, 27x40 @300 dpi

Okay, so as most of you know I've been working as a Jr.-Designer at Indika Entertainment Advertising for the past few months making movie posters. Since then I've really fallen more in love with that art and design.


This year I decided that ontop of my illustration work I want to persue a more free-lancey sorta exploration in graphic design making movie posters for my friends thesis films. Now, although this first poster I'm posting about is not a thesis film, its for a friends Documentary about his father's life and his relationship with his father. My friend, (Kyle Mumford) really worked hard on this movie and I'm looking forward to working with him again in the future. The film is very deep and has a very serious tone to it so we wanted to try to obtain that sense of emotion in the direction of the poster design. As you can see ontop is the finished payoff poster. I'm also sharing all of first and second round comps that I worked on for him before we ended up going with the final. Lemme know watchu think!



<3

The last two weeks I've been failing at life

Okay, so I think I'm finally coming out of the hole I fell into the past two-three weeks. I've been really over worked with a ton of crap and now I am trying to prioritize shit. In the mean time, I wanted to make a post to some images that I said I wouldn't post because I was really un-happy with them, but you can't appreciate sunny days without some rainy ones.



This image is the second project that was created for my Portfolio class with Tomer, the direction was to pick a significant character/person real or fictitious and illustrate a portrait of them. The catch was that the portrait had to give a "feeling" or a general idea of what that person did in their life. (or of who they were) SO I chose Jay Adams, one of the original Z-Boys from Dogtown. I'll spare you the info but nut shelling it, he played a very significant role in the evolution of modern day vert-skateboarding. He lead a very rough childhood and basically I view him as a very passionate athlete who never sold out when everyone else did around him. But he did kinda washed up with going to prison BUT thats a different story. Anyway, the Jay Adams persona has been one that I look up to with longboarding and freeboarding since I was a kid.

The image I did the final on was a bit different from my initial sketch which I am going to do a re-worked version based on as soon as I can, but basically I wanted to focus on the surfing aspect of Jay's earlier life. I was working with using the water and the waves of the ocean and integrate that with his long blonde hair/and the Venice boardwalk that was a very symbolic location in Jay's life. If you've ever seen the movie "Lords of Dog-Town" or the documentary you'd see the connections. Anyway, I chose to do this image in a slightly different approach than my usual illustrations. I went with graphite and charcoal instead of ink. And I tried to get more of a painterly feel with my digital coloring. I did an ink wash for the waves and put them behind my coloring. Then laid the graphite drawing ontop and blah blah blah. Tomer said that the waves needed to be bigger and more aggressive and that they weren't selling the image. :/ I'm in the midst of re-working it though so we'll see how that one turns out.

The Saddest Duck to have ever lived.

So, I was really bored earlier and decided, "Hey, I'm gunna draw a duck." so I did, except he came out looking ridiculously sad, so I decided to keep him. blah blah um, soon I'm gunna do a new blog update where I'm changing my layout up and adding some new pages to this old lady. Should be good. Maybe in a day or two. ROARRR also check out www.illustration-gumbo.blogspot.com where only the coolest kids get to show. <3