Etching

Starting with this post I am going to showcase some of the new experiments that I applied and added to my illustration skills. Etching printing technique can be an interesting way of adding nice effects on the illustrations. 

Especially when you merge them with digital media. Since I love using hand drawn type, collage and textures, I transformed my traditional piece and this is my result *

* again you will find animals, because it was an extension for the previous task on wildlife imagery

...and the final one...

Subliminal marks -> Collage Illustrations

During the "Drawing for Illustrators" course, we were asked to produce 5 subliminal drawings on a 18"x 24" paper, starting with pencil mark making and further on with different themes from music to variety, drowning.

The main purpose was to discover what lines, textures represent us and to make new combinations that will help develop our artistic repertoire of image making. This experiment is helpful because it allows freedom and self introspection, so you are able to produce your own marks that will be used in your artwork.

I have chosen here my Variety Project and my first one Pencil Marks.

I realized that I should do more often this process, to expand my aesthetic style.

Remember the previous post with wildlife illustration? Well, using these marks I created on the next task, 2 animal collage pieces created with these experiments.

Enjoy!

 

Drawing...Oatland Island

Wildlife drawing can be a great experience and a new challenge for discovering new ways of storytelling.

Oatland Island is is one of the premier wildlife attractions in the southeast, so for the reportage drawing class,

I had the occasion to explore the environment through observational drawings that in the end, will turn out in 3 final pieces that can reveal some particularities of the place.

So...these are some of the sketches used as a starting point

and...

These are the final images.

My interest was to use line as a basic visual expression to emphasize the relation between the animals and their outside/inside space.

 

Rough & Ready

One of my last illustration projects done at Scad for this quarter, has been an interesting experience, exchanging with National University of Art, Bucharest, Graphic Arts department.

We created a Facebook page and each of us had to make one thumbnail and then switch with someone else's drawing, for the final images. The theme was " The Mysterious Stranger" and I received this piece:

 This is my visual response to it:

The idea was to go back in time and recreate the childhood universe of the character.

watercolor + digital collage + joyfulness + humor 

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Hopefully, we will try and print a final material with all the illustrations !

Typing Savannah

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...the silence of textures...

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