Weekly Illustration 7 - Fool For Love

Hey folks!  So here I am with my Week 7 Illustration, and it’s based on this song, Fool For Love by Lord Huron.  It’s one of my recent favorite songs, and props and profuse thanks go out to Lauren for introducing me to this amazing band.  This illustration is essentially the calm before the storm, the last moment of contemplation before the major conflict of the song. 

Ideally I would have been able to fully color this too, but I wanted to at least get it pretty solidly black and white, so that I can later color it when I have time. 

I hope you all like it and that you enjoy the song as well! 

Chris 

Ready Jet Go! Storyboards

Hey everyone! 

Here are some storyboards that I recently did for Wind Dancer Films and their kid's show Ready Jet Go!  They were a lot of fun to work on, and the characters were great to work with.  Here's hoping I can work with them more in the future! 

Weekly Illustration 6 - Dark Night of the Soul

Hey folks!  Here with another piece worked on throughout the week, and another that's not as done as I was hoping to get it by the working period's end.  Again, I think I gave myself overmuch to do, and the fact that I'm still sort of blindly groping my way through digital painting probably doesn't help matters.  Hopefully I can work on this more in the future and really get it to a state where I can call it done.  I think for the final, I'd end up cropping it down some, but I figured I might as well post it in the full state that it was.

This one was inspired by the song of the same name, by Loreena McKennitt, which you can listen to here if you'd like  I'd highly recommend it, as it's a beautiful, soothing piece of music.  And as such, it was very emotionally inspiring.  I don't think I can say I did the feelings justice here, but it's a start, maybe for future work.

Finished or not, I hope you folks like what I got down! 

Weekly Illustration 5 - Vide Cor Meum

Hey everyone! Here for week five, I have some fanart based on NBC's Hannibal. Unfortunately, my vision outpaced the time I was able to spend on this, so it's not to the level of completion that I want. Some things got a little rushed to get it even to this form, that I'd probably go back and redo if I had more time. I worked on it past the minimum requirements, but with work and other obligations, I wasn't able to do as much on it as I wanted. I'd like to work on it more in my free time in the future, and get it colored and such.

About it though, it has roots in a song used in Hannibal, Vide Cor Meum or "See My Heart," which itself is based in a poem from Dante Alighieri's La Vita Nuova. I don't want to spoil things for those who haven't watched Hannibal (because it's the greatest show of all time and should be seen by all), but if you've seen it, hopefully it'll all make sense enough.

So I'm still working to find a balance of things I want to draw, and how complicated I can make them, in order to get them done in minimal time. With Kylo Ren, I got done two a week. With this, it's not complete. Hopefully I'll find equilibrium soon.  

Weekly Illustration 2-4: The Rhyming Guide to Kylo Ren

Here at last are the Weekly Illustrations I've been holding off on posting, because I wanted to post them all at once.

I was inspired by the new Star Wars movie and its resident angst-bucket, one Kylo Ren. I love a good rhyming pun, so I decided to channel it into some art of young Ben. Truth be told, there are a lot more ideas I have for this series, but I think that six is a good start. I may add on more in the future and keep it on going, but for now, I give you The Rhyming Guide to Kylo Ren! 

Weekly Illustration Note

Super late with this, but I want to go one more week before I post what my weekly illustrations from the past two weeks, plus this one. Just wanna get another image or two into the sequence. I AM finishing illustrations every week, so I think that still counts... I just think it'll work better if more are posted at the same time. So yes. Yeah. SOON.

Adidas Tour 360 Boards

Hey everyone! 

I just got the go-ahead to post up some storyboards a did a few months ago for a few ads for the new Adidas Tour 360.  Each row represents its own progression and its own commercial.  The first four were the final ones sent to the client, and the last is one that hit the cutting room floor, but I figured why not just show all the finished boards I did, used or not? 

These ads went public as of January 6, so they've aired somewhere.  I don't know what region they're airing in or anything, but if you see an Adidas ad that looks something like this for this shoe, well then chances are I had a small hand in it. 

Hope you all like em! 

Chris