More Bar Posters!

I got the opportunity to do the poster for the first poetry slam of Auntie Mae's Might Fine Poetry Night! I got a lot of positive response from quite a few people and I must say that I enjoy it myself.

Another Older Work

Just something that I found from back in the day. This is the first piece I did using scanned surfaces to mimic materials and provide texture. In many ways this was the first step towards some later pieces like the polyptic I have posted here.

Tattoo Finals (Muse and Orion)

Orion Tattoo Sketches

Auntie Mae's Poetry Night Poster/Logo

Just some work I did for the "local dive bar" as the owner, Jeff, likes to put it. We went for a Communist propaganda feel...

This was made to look like the hammer and sickle...

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

This is a book that I completed during the junior year of my illustration courses. The goal of this book is to use "fantastic animals" or creatures to introduce more complex vocabulary to children in kindergarten and first grade.

Professor Webb (named after Webster's dictionary) is constantly attempting to capture the animals to prove to the world that they exist but each time the characteristic that the creature describes helps it to escape.

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

The Corpulent Pudgeon

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

The Clandestine Gekoot

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

The Indomitable Lurper

The Qot'k

The Qot'k are a people I made up as an exercise in exploring the multiple aspects of a detailed setting. I based much of their appearance and activities from many cultures all around the world, throughout history. (Sri Lankan [?], African Tribal, Ancient Chinese, Indian, Native American Tribal and Nordic peoples just to name a few). I have even gone so far as to create an art style for them as well as a sort of caste system.

I'll do my best to provide more information as time goes along so you folks have a better understanding of what you're seeing.

Big Qot'k Polyptic!

I made this for my final illustration class. It is attempting to show different aspects of Qot'k life as they would depict it.

The Great Hunt
Under the cover of night (as evidenced by the Mask of the Creator hanging overhead) the Qot'k hunters are going after their prey during it's mating season. Their prey use a light organ to signal mates and thus the hunters use a lantern on their boat to do so as well. The only problem is that so do the Anglers and occasionally the two mistake one another for their quarry.

The Fisher-woman
A fisher-woman sits in the boughs of a slanted reed waiting to catch an arrow-fish. The fishers are the holy people of the Qot'k as The Creator is a fisher-woman. They wait for days out in the reeds catching a wide variety of fish that are unattainable by coastline nets. The best catch are arrow-fish however as the toxin they have is used for anything from shamanistic drugs to medicine and a useful tool for the hunters' spears.

The Harvest
Reed-workers gather the all important reeds (which are something like a mixture between agave and bamboo) for the rest of the Qot'k. First they climb up, removing smaller branches as the go, tossing them down to their fellows waiting on rafts. Eventually the climbers cleave off the upper portion and the larger trunk of the reeds are sawn off and rowed back to shore.

The Coastline
Here the reed-workers unload their haul. They lever the larger logs into the air and fishers tie large nets to them for gathering large groups of coastline fish while the logs dry for other purposes. The other reeds are used for making building materials, food, fermentation, medicine, cloth, firewood and many other things.

Houses
The reed-workers build the houses in close proximity, attempting to promote community harmony and...

Unit
...to eventually build larger housing units for multiple families. Four houses go into the base of one unit, the upper level having a larger cooking area and meeting hall. These are expanded upon as well.

Complex
Four units are joined into one complex. They are used for schools, markets, workshops and large public forums. Families still live in the base of these but they tend to have close ties the the activities of the complex.

Illustration IV Images!

Qot'k Hunter

Qot'k Reed-worker

Qot'k Fishers

Typical Qot'k House

Great Hunt Galley

Great Hunt Game (Yet to be named)

Arrow-fish

Greater Angler

First Post!

Just thought I would post some older work while 

attempting to get a handle of the posting method

The Red Queen animation sample (from LUCID)

These two images were from my first illustration class so they're a few years old...