Final Portfolio

So this is my final portfolio. We had to pick 4 of our best illustrations out of a list of eight things. It took me a while to decide which ones that I would pick, but I finally decided on these four: Gouache montage, product illustration, album illustration, and my poster illustration.

This is one of my favorites. I love working with gouache so I found this project very fun. I learned a lot about gouache while working on this project. I also was able to effectively put three random images in an interesting composition. It was a challenge at first but it worked out in the end.

This is another piece that I did with gouache. This time I used more colors than I had before with gouache so that was interesting. It took me a long time to get the color of the bottle and the shading just right. Overall I think that it is an accurate representation of a Jones Soda bottle.

I really liked the way that this turned out - I spent a long time on the dress. Again, this is completely gouache. (Can you see a trend here? Haha) I enjoyed painting it.

And from way back in the semester, my poster illustration. The was done with watercolor. The colors are bright and vibrant, which I had a really hard time achieving with watercolor, so I think that this shows that I was progressing and getting better.

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Here are my ten technique exercises. The six below this were created in Photoshop using the Wacom tablet and basically messing around with the program. I think that they turned out very nice.

This one is my favorite.

The one above is my second gouache attempt. I love everything about it and I think it turned out great.

Watercolor bird! This is one of my better water colors.

Well these make me have extra technique examples, but I liked them so it's okay.

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Now for my comp - this actually isn't a marker comp, but it is a comp, I just used water color instead. It was the comp for the inside of my Red Barn pamphlet. I think it's pretty nice.

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Overall I learned a lot in this class. I enjoyed being in it, though I wasn't so much a fan of getting up so early for it, haha.