New Illustration

For my 'Layouts & Rendering' Class, we had to design a children's storybook cover, which featured us as a kid that also featured something we were into as kids. This was a no-brainer, it was either something with UFO's, the Loch Ness Monster, Dinosaurs or space. My Loch Ness monster idea progressed to my "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' idea, which led me to just draw cartoony ginat squids. The 'Nautilus' was replaced with a generic sub and since my pose had 'legs that were too long for a 13 year old,' i had my 13 year old brother pose. I'm not completely content with this, I'm not used to rendering anything to hell, but I figured I'd just go with it since I already put the time in. Anyways, here it is, for now. "Jimmy & the Uncharted Sea."


And a closer view.



Also, for some reason, this version is extremely saturated and doesn't show the texture I wasted so much time on, but oh well. I approached this project with a few parameters: not too much detail, don't digital paint, use lots of vector shading, etc., and I stayed within them pretty well. The original drawing was on 24x30" paper, and the Photoshop file is 1.9 GB because I'm a layer whore. Anyways, this is going into our CIA Illustration show in a few days, so it'll be printed massive, hopefully not to the extent where I will notice all of the flaws.

It really reminded me of Flintstones era Hanna Barbara, the amount of texture incorporated into the backgrounds was just great.