Uninvited Guest

My assignment for Book Illustration this week was to do a black and white illustration for a line of text that was assigned to us out of context.  My line was entitled the uninvited guest: "His heart was pounding he was sure he had seen the doorknob turn."  One of the concepts I came up with was a musically gifted alley cat who has a love for the piano and sneaks into this family's home when they are away.  Here is the point in this story when he fears that the family has returned home and he will be caught in the act.  

Flash Cards

Here are few more things that I have been working on:

Japanese Flash Cards: They are double-sided (English and Japanese).  More to come!

New Version of Gomoku Game: it's more bus-like :) 

Robin Hood: Two Page Spread

My assignment for Book Illustration this week was to illustrate a two page spread using one of the characters we created.  I went with the Robin character who is at summer camp and who steals from the boys' camp across the lake.  This piece depicts a scene that would take place in this alternate version of Robin Hood.

Second Semester Thesis

So... for my second semester thesis project, I'm developing a series of activities/games/flash cards/etc. for kids.  My idea was to focus in on one of the cities I created a map for last semester.  So this is a Japanese game called Gomoku.   It's basically tic tac toe but five in a row.  It's been really fun working on it. Here's the game so far:

 

Robin Hood Characters

For my Book Illustration class I had to choose a familiar character from a known story and re-imagine that character in five different ways.  I chose Robin Hood.  Here they are:

Robin who wears a Hood: He's a Bill Gates-esque character who is very computer savvy; Stealing money from large corporations and giving money to the poor; 

Robin: Spending her summer at Shearwood Forest Camp; Camp's best archer; stealing food and other goods from the boy's camp across the lake

 Rob: mobster; stealing money from corrupt banks; giving money to those in need

Robbie: a noble raccoon who steals food from the gluttonous humans; giving it to his animal friends

Robyn: Mission Impossibe-esque heroine; Using high tech gadgets to sneak into the homes of corrupt business tycoons; Giving money to those in need