the medicine man

Swine Flu

Here's a glimpse at my final project in Scientific Illustration. It's an editorial illustration about a current scientific dilemma or occurrance, so I chose the swine flu. I worked off of an initial mixed media sketch in my sketchbook that I really liked and then worked further on it digitally in photoshop. I may tweak it a little more before I turn it in, but for the most part this is what it is going to look like. The image is 5"x5".


This is the one I actually turned in.




Here it is with the symbol returned and some tweaks with the textures and colors.


In this version I removed the giant biohazard symbol because I was worried it got too cluttered with the new texture. The texture is what the actual swine flu virus looks like under a microscope.




This is the original idea I went with.

haven't yet have vignette

The top one is an experiment I did to see if I could make a glaze go over ballpoint pen. The drawing itself is from imagination (and is awful). Overall I think the glazing process was successful, but I think I saturated the glaze with too much color and lost some of the form in the original drawing. The nose originally had alot more shape and the glaze made the lips turn out really red. The bottom one is just some random observation drawings piled on top of one another with a play on words.

If you had one more eye you'd be a cyclops

soca and such

did these with ballpoint pen. the statue head was a mixed media experiment (w/ notes on how I did it and what happened).

new painting

Did this on Rives Bfk. It's acrylic done entirely witha palette knife. Got the inspiration from something I did quite a while ago in my sketchbook about "Blind Oedipus Rex" but never got around to making a finished piece out of it.