A Few Good Men

Recently I was passed on the job to make an image for a production of A Few Good Men in Oxford. The people wanted something sort of military related, particularly involving a play on the iconic Iwo Jima image, though I tried some other ideas out too. Here are some quick sketches I did for them:
A bit cliché but I had to bang 'em all out in an evening.

Well the guys were still pretty into the Iwo Jima idea, but wanted the memorial itself to feature and suggested that perhaps the flag could be falling with the soldiers trying to catch it. With those orders I started on the final image, slowly rendering a realistic image. About halfway though though I sat back and had a look at what I had so far and decided it was terrible and boring, so in a scribbly rush I made the composition more dynamic and the style much looser, before tightening it all up a bit. I don't love the final image but I think it does the job and should read well when printed small on a playbill.

Phil Hale

This evening's project was a copy of a Phil Hale painting, which I chose for its relative simplicity. It took about 5 hours, though I can still spot a lot of discrepancies.

Steampunk

This was actually the first piece I did for Isis, for an article on steampunk that got shifted to the second issue. Well, it was cut again this time and it probably won't ever happen now, so here's the piece. It was designed to take up the whole page, with the white area left for text. Pretty dorky illustration but it is steampunk after all.


Another note: I used Google SketchUp for the first time to do a mock-up of the steam/bike/plane contraption, which was pretty invaluable.