The Virgin Suicide back cover illustration

The Virgin Suicide Back Cover..

Watercolour & Ink on Stonehenge paper + digital manipulation

First of all, i loved working with watercolour on stonehenge paper...

i was inspired by Jessie M. King for this piece (<3<3<3)

I really wanted to use her worn out colours for this project 

but when i painted this it at first, the colours were too saturated 

despite my effort to tone them down

so i had to do some adjustments on photoshop to achieve this.

I also did front cover and spine for this book as well 

however i didn't feel like putting those up..............

I am scared to show this to my prof since she doesn't seem to like anything i do (T_T)

but i thought this image itself was 'okay' to look at (apart from concept)

The front cover is an illustration of floral hanging rope(?)

so it is kind of related to this image where the girl is pulling floral rope.

My peers suggested the rope should be tight

but i just made it loose and flowy(?) just for the look of this.

and i am scared that everyone might say crap about it T_T

but then i thought

Who would actually give a shit about concept of a book 'cover' -_-

I never think about what the 'cover' means when i buy a book!

It's all good as long as the cover looks attractive no matter what it is about...

actually, this is my honest opinion on most of illustrations..

people will read the article instead of trying to figure out what the illustration means.

pretty illustrations draw people's attention more than crappy ones with good concept.

sadly, most people aren't smart enough to get the idea behind things...

or maybe they just don't bother thinking about it at all.

(except for us...)

honestly when it comes to concept, i have completely lost confidence

(in illustration 4 course only)

i used to talk my profs into approving my favourite ideas

but in this class i am extremely terrified of my prof and i can't even talk properly...

Anyway...

If anyone says shit about my work tomorrow, i really want to tell them

'don't judge a book by its cover'

LOL

The Happening Custom DVD Cover

The Happening DVD Cover

Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator CS5

13cm x 18.4cm

M. Night Shyamalan has always been my favourite movie director since 'The Sixth Sense'.

Since my prof banned students from doing Star Wars, His movies were my first choice.

I actually struggled between 'Signs' and 'The Happening',

but finally decided to go with the latter 

because of a striking scene i remembered from the movie.

i have mixed feelings about this piece,

I do think this cover is a bit too cute for the content of this movie..lol

The scene i chose to illustrate was, as i mentioned above, striking

however this cover looks somewhat peaceful....

and i wish i had used my original analog line work for the ladders and people,

sadly, i was confused with my last year's media studio class 

 i thought i wasn't allowed to use anything hand drawn.....

(i found out that we can use analog drawing for lineworks after i finished.)

I like the colour scheme

The hand drawn lettering turned out better than i thought as well.

(usually, my handwriting looks horrible)

I still i think i could have done so much better if i wasn't restricted to working digitally...

Royal(?!) Plates +_+

Royal(?!) Plate Series :)

These are series of plates I designed for my illustration class.

I illustrated portraits of 4 English Queens, 

I also incorporated some weird facts about these ladies into my designs.

Plate 1. Queen 'Bloody' Mary I suffered from phantom pregnancy.

Plate 2. Queen Elizabeth I had black teeth due to overconsumption of sugar.

Plate 3. Queen Victoria only wore black dress after her husband's death.

(although not really a black dress in this design....)

Plate 4. Queen Elizabeth II...seems like she's never going to pass away .......

(that's why she looks like a doll-like figure in here)

These are ALL done digitally. 

The initial sketches are hand drawn but i did all the line works again on photoshop.

I am not entirely confident with my concept since I missed a class

and my prof didn't bother replying to my email that i had sent for some feedback.

Like always... I hate these...

but this time, except for the Queen Elizabeth I plate.

Surprisingly i am quiet happy with how it turned out.

I spent more time illustrating her than any other queens.

(started last week...)

I wish i had invested more time on each one of these instead of trying to finish

3 of the 4 plates in like 8 hours T_T

The other reason why Queen Elizabeth I plate seems more successful than others is 

because I did a brief colour study before I went into actual colouring.

The thing I hate the most is the baby that Mary I is holding.

Sadly, I just couldn't figure out how to illustrate it.

However, Although I hated this project (because i hate this course),

I learned a great deal about doing line works on computer 

which I think was totally worthwhile.

Also I realized I can actually produce something I like if I spend more time on stuff...LOL

Anywayz.............

It's like 5:40 am right now,

 and my eyeballs are about to pop out 

after working for about 20 hours straight (thanks to my laziness T_T)

But I have to get ready for school in an hour :) :) :) :) :)

Life is gooooood +_+