A final project for my core Illustration class, where we were given license to do whatever we wanted. I decided to create a short comic on my interactions with Yoko Ono through her weekly Twitter Q&A. I would like to return to this idea and flesh it out into a larger comic, but this was a fun, quick project, and a nice return to a more traditional comics approach. (Although you do need to read right-to-left in a couple of places…)
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OCAD Assignment: Create an editorial illustration to accompany this New York Times article critiquing the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. (As you can see, my instructor Gary Taxali probably did it a bit better…)
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OCAD Assignment: Create an illustrated book cover for Lord of the Flies. Acrylics, Pen & Ink, Photoshop. Please click on the image for a better view.
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OCAD Assignment: Investigate the relationship between man and machine. I chose to put the spotlight on Britney Spears, whose career has been pushed and pulled by many different ‘machines’: the media (both television and internet), paparazzi, Auto-Tune, a crack team of Scandinavian mega-producers, rumoured plastic surgery procedures, and so on. Machines essentially made her, broke her down, and re-made her.
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OCAD assignment: Create and illustrate someone’s secret, without depicting the individual. My person was a high schooler taken from an ’80s yearbook – his secret is that he helped his ex-girlfriend pay for an abortion. Not the most light-hearted route, but it’s an issue I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, in light of the United States’ recent decision to cut funding from Planned Parenthood. In my drawing, I wanted to convey the sterile eeriness of the doctor’s waiting room, coupled with the lingering threat from both religious and political entities against a woman’s right to choose.
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An assignment for class, working off the saying: “It’s not where you’re going, it’s where you’re at.” Naturally, I decided to draw Joan Rivers at the fountain of youth.
Pen & Ink, Acrylic, Digital
The obvious solution for twenty-first century water issues. Click on the image for a better view.
