Benedict Cumberbatch: Autumn Bartels

 

Lines: Paint Tool Sai; Colour: Photoshop

Paint Tool Sai

Lady Gaga caricature and portrait

Gouche & colored pencil

Ink, gouche, and colored pencil

Visiting Fort McHenry

Today, I made a trip down to Fort McHenry in order to gather more information about the Armistead Monument. This is the landmark in Baltimore which I have decided to write a children's book about. The monument is a large bronze statue of Col. George Armistead, who is famous for defending the fort in the War of 1812. The battle that took place at the fort during that war is the battle that served as the inspiration for America's National Anthem. Today I took a tour of the fort and gathered as much historical information as I could in order to properly Illustrate my book as well as write about everything involving the battle. Below are some of the photos and information I will use for reference.

Celebrity Caricature/Portrait

The caricatures are done with a brush and ink. The portrait is in acrylic.

Jack White Caricature & Portrait

Ink pens & Watercolor

Scanned linework colored in Photoshop

Redesign of Maryland License Plates

For the semester-long project, I’m redesigning the Maryland state background scene plates. The current two can be seen here.

I’m focusing on Baltimore-area scenes and ideas. Over the weekend I went to the Inner Harbor, as well as walked around Mount Vernon to get ideas. This is the (current) list of the plates I would like to design:

1.     Edgar Allan Poe- His grave and the Poe Toaster (I still need to get to Poe’s grave to get a reference photo)

2.     CRABS!!- specifically blue

3.     The Aquarium and/or Tall Ships

4.     Brown Building and the Rainbow Bridge (come on don’t we deserve our own special plates?)

5.     Baltimore Washington Monument

6.      Baltimore Oriole- the bird and I would like to find a way to combine it with the Baltimore Oriole logo as well to show the connection

7.     Combine the state flower (Black-eyed Susan) and state insect (Baltimore Checkerspot Butterly)- I want to go to the Walters this week and see if they have a specimen of the butterfly I could use for reference instead of sitting around and hoping to spot one.

Not going to post all of the photos I took, but I'll post a couple.

This is in The Gallery mall, and I thought it would be a good jumping-off point for the crab-based license plate.

Ship from the Inner Harbor.

Visit to the humane society

For my visit to the humane society I met with the coordinator, Wendy. After e-mailing her back and forth, and talking with her on the phone, we discussed what needed to be on the t-shirt, and the ultimate re-branding process of the humane society.

The Problem: To create a T-Shirt design that is up to modernized standards, but also incorporates the already existing logo of the humane society. T-Shirt must be 4 colors, to be printed on white. Back will be black and white.

So, I sent Wendy a various amount of sketches, shown below are two:

From here she decided she liked the idea of the animals being in the heart. From here I decided to go in that direction but also make the animals have their own style to be able to brand the humane society further. In the final design (shown below) the animals incorporate the type of food they are known to eat (fish, carrot, bone.) The design is sent in black and white to then decide on a color palette once approved. Colors incorporated must be royal blue and grass green, the other two colors are of my choosing. 

After sending 20 different color choices the final colors were decided on:

The back of the t-shirt will then be decided after numerous variations have been made. Once the shirt is completed, the web-designing process begins.