Alyssa Coles Illustrator: January 2010

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

We were assigned to do a movie poster and so I chose Charade starring the fab Audrey Hepburn and the wildly handsome Cary Grant. I wanted it to be stylized but still have a retro 60's feel to it. It's the first time I've turned in an illustration assignment using illustrator.

Here is my first idea of her. I thought I would add a menacing silhouette behind her as an homage to the original poster.

So I came up with this but the silhouette isn't threatening enought and there are lots of little problems like her blending in to the shadow and the text being to bright and seperate from the image.

Here is my newer version of Charade, I want to still work on it in Photoshop, but it's what I got so far.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

So I lost my sketch book and it's such a bitter loss to me, there were a bunch of pictures I wanted to scan in to post on my blog...But I bought a new sketchbook yesterday and I am working over time to catch up to where I was at before. Grrr...Just thinking about it makes me mad. Here are a couple pictures I made with my Inkbrush pen.

Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face

That cute Jane Aldridge from Sea of Shoes

A couple girls in my class

Friday, January 15, 2010

When I made this image, it was supposed to be about Somali pirates but George Pratt said it looks like Life of Pi. Hahah but I don't want to change it! By the way, how agonizing is the pain of losing a sketchbook? I lost mine yesterday and it's all I can think about. Those images were so precious and dear to me and I really didn't want to lose them...

Thursday, January 14, 2010

embossing

So I started my printmaking class this week and we are doing embossing as our first assignment so here is a little preview of what my first project will look like. I'll post the embossed image next week.