super maybe final Dethklok image

Alright, so I wasn't really happy with the text I had in the other image because it was just some grungy text I found on a website, so I decided to just make my own so that it would look how I wanted to look and appear more cohesive and integrated into the piece. I did the same technique on the text as I did with the skull but I  made the outer glow red, which I'm still not super sure about; I wanted it to stand apart from the image somehow in a subtle way, but I wouldn't say it looks necessarily better than if the glow was white...hm, either way, IT'S METAL!

Metal Shirt

I decided on a whim to make a band t-shirt for the Dethklok concert coming up that I'll be going to this weekend. I figured "hey, t-shirts are $25 at concerts, and half the time they're kind of ugly, so I'll make one for super cheap and it'll be awesome!" I spent $8 total for two black t-shirts for my boyfriend and myself, already had the shirt transfer paper lying around the house. I looked at the Dethklok skull that's in the show and went off of that kind of design but obviously went off my own design and perspective. It's all pen on paper and I scanned it in and did some fancy Photoshop stuff and played around with the linework until I liked it and finally added the awesome metal font and tada! cheap band shirts that are probably better than the actual shirts at the concert.

A sketch a day...

Sketches I did over the past couple of days for my "sketch a day" determination project. The first one I did while listening to Wolfmother, who I've been obsessed with for the last few weeks...they're just...AWESOME. The second one was just an idea going off of the feather and skull motif that are in my earlier sketches.

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This is my account on Society6.com. I am currently selling one print, "Dirty Fingers" and will add more when I can get some more high quality scans of my work. 

Those dead eyes

This is a colored pencil drawing I did of a still life I set up. Total, this took around 30 hours of work to complete and used up 2 black, 1 dark blue, 2 violet, and 1 tuscan red Prismacolor colored pencils completely, which gave my hands massive cramps.

Oh, Santa...

Here is a recipe I did for Buckeyes, chocolate covered peanut butter balls that my grandma makes. I decided to make it seasonal 1. because of the time of year right now and 2. I might give these out as Christmas cards or gifts.

Art Nouveau robot

 This is an ink on wood panel, though here it's not quite finished. I looked at B-movie posters and decided to depict a robot terrorizing a city with an atomic bomb cloud in the background, but in the style of art nouveau; art nouveau has a lot of pretty women in it, so the biggest contrast I could think of was a destructive robot.

Iron Bank

Here's a sketch I did in a coffee shop downtown with pen while listening to this guy play guitar.

Card ideas

Here are some holiday and Christmas card ideas I have to send out and possibly sell.

Sketching ideas

Here are some sketches I did of an idea I've had recently for a series of ink paintings on wood, mostly inspired by the art of Sam Weber and Marco Mazzoni.

Cadence

This is a watercolor and ink painting I did of my cousin's PTSD dog, Cadence. I have to admit, short fur is very hard to capture in brush strokes.

Counting on Zetalon

These are three page spreads for a 10 counting book for children that I designed, painted, wrote, and put together in 10 weeks. I've sold 10 copies so far and I'm getting more printed to sell in the future.

This is a monster design I created for a monster activity book put out by our SCAD Atlanta Illustration department. I like the initial design, but I think it could use some tightening up and more work before I'll say it's finished.

Pet Parade poster

 This is a poster design I did for the annual Pet Parade put on by the Humane Society. I designed and painted this poster in less than 20 hours which was a ridiculous task, and I my design didn't get picked, but I'm still glad I participated in the 24 hour event.

Watercolor and Ink on paper

Watercolor and ink on hot press watercolor paper. I like to do a lot of things involving the relationship, or struggle, between the organic and synthetic. I know this isn't a new concept, but I think that, nor more than ever, it applies to our everyday lives. Natures struggles to survive among the cold pipes of what man creates, and we have to wonder which one is really in control sometimes...

Acrylic ink on wood

Acrylic Ink and gesso on wood panel. It's the first time I ever tried painting on wood, and I really love it! The texture and bleeding was kind of hard to work with, and I had to keep that in mind when working with transparency and the direction of the brush strokes and lines, but overall I'm really pleased with how it turned out, and I might do more and make it into a series. 

Watercolor painting I did of Anne Hathaway as Fantine from Les Miserables. I also made the candles move in Photoshop.

Sven

Watercolor and Ink painting I did of Sven from DotA 2. Sven character ©Valve and DotA, design and painting © me

Mad scientist robot Munndy doll I painted. Munny, sculpey parts, screws, acrylic paint. © Amanda Todd 2011

Portrait I did last year for a hair salon down the street. One of the employees got married and the owner did her hair and wanted me to paint a picture she took of the bride. Black and white but kept the flower in her hair the actual colors. Acrylic on canvas, 22x30ish. © Amanda Todd 2011

Watercolor piece I just finished about the violence in Syria and how innocent casualties are caught in the crossfire of snipers and gunmen stationed in rural houses and areas. Done totally in watercolors with a levels adjustment in Photoshop. © Amanda Todd 2012

Rough Sketch

This is a rough drawing from my reference picture for a piece I'm doing on violence in Syria. The main challenge will be to make her look like an Arabic child since she actually has very fair skin and blonde hair.

Watercolor Portraiture

This is a watercolor portrait I recently finished of Sean Connery as James Bond. Done in watercolor with a little white gouche in areas.

Digital Illustration

This piece Leo Zodiac piece combines traditional and digital media to imitate the the graphic style and technique of the Balbusso Twins. There are nearly 200 Photoshop layers in this piece. Every stroke was done made with black gouche using a dry-brush technique and then scanning it in and separating the strokes onto individual layers for transforming and coloring.

Hansel unt Gretel ja!

Here is the Hansel and Gretel watercolor illustration in it's almost final form. Critique is tomorrow, so I'll see what tweaks I should make to finish it off. Otherwise, I'm super happy with how awesome it came out!

More drawings!

Here are some more figure drawings from 2011, the lats one being a metaphorical self portrait done in  black and white charcoal and black ink.

Figure Drawings

Some older figure and facial studies I did last year in my Life Drawing class. All done in black and white charcoal, the first with red conte crayon.

Daww robot

Here's a watercolor bookmark piece I did for a project Winter quarter, 2012. The text is computer generated and it has a few levels and brightness/contrast adjustments, but everything is essentially traditional media with watercolor and ink.

CTHULUUU!!

Here are some oldies! Preliminary drawing and color comp done in Photoshop for my Materials and Techniques class I took in Fall 2011. It is a female Cthulu in a stormy sea setting, ominously looking towards a city in the distance.

Midtown Diner menu!

 

Hi all! Here are two different versions of a retro diner menu for my Electronic Illustration class. 98% of it was done in Illustrator, and the glow around the text and the old-ish effects in the second version were done in Photoshop. I prefer the clean version personally, but I was playing around with old paper textures to make it look extra authentic retro...or something. 

New Art and stuff!

Here's a piece I'm working on illustration the children's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. it's about halfway finished right now. Everything is in watercolor on stretched watercolor 140lb cold press paper.

Woah, first post of forever! I"ll attempt to post in here regularly now that it's up, giving updates on what's happening in school and the projects that I'm currently working on. Woot!