More Night Missions

Panels five(bottom) and six(top).

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Night Missions Continued

Here's panels three(bottom) and four(top).

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Night missions

This time around, I present a nine panel "comic book" if you will, an assignment for my sequential narrative class. It's a cool class, but this was the first time I really felt like I could do what I wanted. The task was to create a story wherein one character talks a lot, and the other(s) do not. Mine takes place in the twilight skies over Britain during WWII with the crew of a Northrop P-61 Black Widow, an American nighttime fighter-extraodinaire! Extremely large for it's class, the Black Widow specialized in hunting down German bombers that used the cover of dark to sneak deep within Allied airspace. It flew with a crew of three - pilot, gunner, and radio/radar operator who manned the self-contained radar unit, a feature unique among Commonwealth and American fighters. With four Browning machine guns in the dorsal mounted turret and two 20mm cannons in each wing, the P-61 packed enough of a punch to take down anything the Germans could fling across the channel.

It's probably fairly obvious I did a little research for this, couldn't be helped. I'm going to post these one or two at a time (work your way UP the page rather than down to get the right order), so you can see each frame up close. It'd be a shame if two sleepless nights produced images to small to see, now wouldn't it? Enjoy,

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Testing the waters

This one's from the same illustration class as my last post, only this is part of my weekly series rather than an actual assignment. Every week, regardless of whether we have a project due, we have to submit a finished piece that follows the theme of our choosing (has to be the same theme for the whole semester). As I'm sure will come as a surprise to everyone, my theme is soldiers(!), so I present my rendering of a 16th century Polish soldier of the heavy-cavalry class. It's the first time I've worked in watercolours since early high school, and the first time I've felt as though I've had any kind of control over them. Quite excited, I'm going to try to use them whenever I get the chance in the future, and when I do you can be sure to see it here.

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School work

This here's a piece I did for my illustration class for second semester. Everyone was given a page out of a 1950's pulp comic book and told to illustrate a picture that could go along with what information we'd been given. Mine was about some dude finding his way through this foggy terrace, where everything had been turned to stone/concrete, then lighting a match to see better and catching a glimpse of a building off in the distance. Did it in acrylic, then scanned and worked some photoshop magic on it. Enjoy!

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Let it go!

I always felt like there was more I could do with what I had for the Caesar cover (first post), so I drew in parts of the soldier that were missing (top of his helmet and his left arm) and made the piece into a vignette to open it up more. Did I take it too far? Please let me know what you think, I just had to do it and get it out of my system for good.

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Some more tastings from the book.

Here are a few more pages from the book, the title of which is "Teen Wendy Blair - No Time to Spare," done for the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work. I've just received news that the layout designer is nearing completion and the book should go to press in a matter of weeks. Can't wait to see this sucker when it's finally done!

JT out.

Storybookin

Hey all, sorry for the month long delay, hope you're still with me!

Here are three pages from the storybook I illustrated last year. I did twenty four, so I will probably be posting some more of them in the future. But for now, take a gander at these and let me know what you think! I've changed the settings so that you no longer need to be a member to post comments. Take 'er easy.

JT out.

Tuer's Take on Tartakovsky

This one's hot off the digital presses, it's due this week for the same illustration class as the Roman stuff and the Japanese poster. The assignment was to create a corporate illustration of anyone we wanted, so it had to show the person in a positive light and in a way that would convince possible clients that this is the person they want to deal with. Everyone chose fairly high-profile people so it wasn't about introducing them to society, but rather showing that they are even more successful now.

I chose Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of "Dexter's Laboratory", "Samurai Jack" and creative director on the "Star Wars: Clone Wars" mini-series. I focused on the style of Samurai Jack to help identify him as Genndy. I'm happy with this one, the quick ones are always satisfying!

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Back to the basics

Man, I hadn't realized how long it had been since I'd worked in acrylics! It was like learning to walk again. Thanks goes out to Alex for some late night tips and pointers over MSN!

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Samurai Game/Movie Poster

This here's another creation from the same illustration class as the Roman stuff. We had to create an image that was bold and easy to decipher from close up and far away, plus told enough of a story to keep the viewer interested. What can I say - Japan's still got a hold on me!

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Follow Up part Deux

And here are the last two Act Illustrations for Julius Caesar. Had a lot of fun doing these, really quick and rewarding. I'll probably further develop this style in the future.
'Til then,

JT out.

Follow Up

These are spot illustrations that go with the Julius Caesar cover and are meant to begin each chapter of the book. They are also done in a sketchy, out of control style to be consistent with the cover image. The ones here are the first two of four images, the next two will follow shortly.

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Oh, Hello!

Hello and welcome to my blog! I'm a newb to this but it seems fairly straight forward. Artful Nonsense will basically be the spot where I post my most recent graphcial workings, so check back every so often for the latest. I won't even try to commit to a schedule yet, but at least this way it'll be more of a surprise!

This first piece is a book cover for Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", which I did for one of my illustration classes at OCAd. I've been hooked on HBO's series "Rome" so I had to do something with all the images of footsoldiers, centurions, and basic Roman-coolness floating aorund my brain. I plan on doing some more Roman pieces in the future.

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