Kevin Honan's Online Portfolio

Photography

2011-08-19T22:28:00.004-05:00

Photography

2011-08-11T23:06:00.002-05:00

Graphics Work

2011-08-11T22:26:00.003-05:00

Just to round this out a bit, I went back and grabbed some of my typography work from school.

To make things a little more clear, the posters we had to make were based on a randomly selected fortune from a fortune cookie. Then we had to hunt down a quotation and an image to go with the fortune cookie. I think that my professor liked my cynical sense of humor and I scored well in class.

The Jan Tschichold layouts were the result of a 4 stage series of layout exercises where we were gradually given more and more things to include in our designs. The neat thing about the Tschichold work is that when Hallmark came by the Design Dept. that year, my professor selected my work to be part of a display to show them an example of what the students were producing. In the end the work successfully convinced them that the funds they provided for our lab were going to good use and they continued to provide assistance to the department in the way of cutting edge software and hardware.

Graphics Work

2011-08-11T22:25:00.002-05:00

Graphics Work

2011-08-11T22:09:00.004-05:00

More Mae's Stuff!

2011-03-22T20:13:00.009-05:00

This is more stuff from '09 that I just didn't post until now. We have the poster for the 2nd Auntie Mae's Poetry Slam as well as the T-shirt I designed that can be purchased at the bar.

This is the original image I made for the slam.

This is the final image that was selected for the slam.

These are the detailed images for the T-shirt design. The text is on the front and the image is on the back.

Here's just a quick sketch of what they look like.

Another Older Work

2009-10-06T15:49:00.004-05:00

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)

2009-10-06T15:44:00.001-05:00

Orion Tattoo Sketches

2009-10-06T15:40:00.004-05:00

Auntie Mae's Poetry Night Poster/Logo

2009-10-06T15:04:00.005-05:00

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

2009-05-08T22:15:00.001-05:00

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

2009-05-08T22:12:00.001-05:00

The Corpulent Pudgeon

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

2009-05-08T22:09:00.004-05:00

The Clandestine Gekoot

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

2009-05-08T21:51:00.003-05:00

The Indomitable Lurper

The Qot'k

2009-05-05T00:02:00.003-05:00

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!

2009-05-04T23:47:00.007-05:00

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!

2009-05-04T23:30:00.001-05:00

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!

2009-02-26T07:13:00.004-06:00

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...

Kevin Honan's Online Portfolio

Photography

Photography

Graphics Work

Graphics Work

Graphics Work

More Mae's Stuff!

More Bar Posters!

Another Older Work

Tattoo Finals (Muse and Orion)

Orion Tattoo Sketches

Auntie Mae's Poetry Night Poster/Logo

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

Professor Webb's Catalog of Fantastic Animals

The Qot'k

Big Qot'k Polyptic!

Illustration IV Images!

First Post!