"Aliens Eating Babies" Final Illustration

"Aliens Eating Babies" Final Illustration
For the final composition for this piece, I wanted the first thing that catches the observer's attention to be the colors, and how they influenced each other.  I learned that painting wet paint into wet paint creates a useful blending technique, and that's what I used to paint the pipes.  I kept the painting fairly simplistic to keep the focus on the alien and the baby, because they are not as large as they should have been.  If I was to do anything differently, I would have made the alien, table, and baby bigger, and then would have put some more "alien technology" in the background. Overall I feel the piece is a success.

Anthropomorphic Portrait Sketch

Anthropomorphic Portrait- Sketch
For this sketch I had to research what an Anthropomorphic Portrait even was before I could attempt it myself.  I saw a lot of animals with human characteristics, and I wanted to go in a slightly different direction, so I sliced the page in half and drew a woman with a "split-personality", where her fearsome side i showing through. I think that this sketch works for the assignment because it gives off the feeling of both the woman and the tiger. If I could change anything, I would probably try to shade better without any smudging.

"Aliens Eating Babies" Thumbanil

"Aliens Eating Babies" Thumbnail
In this thumbnail I was trying to hone in on what I wanted my aliens to look like and came to a halt when I drew the tentacles on it's head. I then developed a body that looked starved and a few extra limbs. I then decided to take the mouth off of the head and create an opening in it's chest which is more baby-eating size-appropriate in my opinion.

"Something Moving" Sketch

"Something Moving"
When I realized we had to draw something moving I automatically knew I wanted to draw a horse. They have such characteristic movements and grace. Horses have been a mode of transportation for people for as long as they have been tame-able by man.  It gives the impression of movement so I believe this sketch is a success, although I might have shaded it differently if I had drawn it a second time.

"Something Mechanical" Sketch

"Something Mechanical" Sketch

For my mechanical sketch I had originally wanted to draw the inner workings of a clock, but it proved to be a task quite more intricate than the one at hand, so I decided to draw something that I think is awesome and would like to have (in circumstances where a limb is lost of course). I think if I was to change anything, I would try to shade it so the robot hand seemed shinier, and probably would have put a table under the hand to give a cast shadow and the impression of depth and dimension.

"Back In The Day" Complete

Back In The Day Complete Illustration
During the final illustration, I moved the gazebo more towards the center of the piece to get rid of the awkward negative space, and colored it so the samurai and the dragon would be the focal point and the background is more neutral to create deep space within the piece.

"Back In The Day" Comp.

Back In The Day Comp.
In my second round of sketches, I changed the warriors stance to be more visually interesting, as well as a background to add dimension and space to the piece.  The gazebo adds more culture to the piece, but I feel the placement of the gazebo leaves distracting negative space on the right side.