2D Design final project- Process

I love when other artists show their process.  So here is one I made---just for you!


Step one: The Idea!
Next week is the last week of Winter Semester here at BYU.  After this semester I am staying for Spring and Summer semester.  For those you one who read My Skinny Jeans are Red, you're probably familiar with my roommate Ken.  Ken isn't stay at BYU, he is leaving on his own adventure back home in Wyoming.  The guy that lives next door to us, Justin, is a good friend of ours.  Justin is leaving on his mission soon to Brazil.  So basically life is never going to be the same for the three of us.  We are all going our own way.  So I wanted to create a piece of art that cements this idea. 

So I decided to make a large stencil with the three of us that shows where we are now and where we are going.  

Step two: Photo references
I took pictures of all of us and then photoshoped us in the arrangement and composition that I wanted. 

Step three: stencil base
I then took the photo into Painter 3 and painted over it and made a stencil. 

Justin's face took forever to do!


Step four: Printing

After designing the stencil I scaled it to 19'' to 19'' and pulled it into Word and printed out the image.
 
Step five: Trace and transfer

After I printed out the stencil's base I traced it onto tracing paper and then rubbed it on to the final paper.  


Step six: Cutting

Then I stayed up till 5am and cut this bad boy out!


Step seven: newspaper
I wanted a part of our room to be included in this piece of art.  In the beginning of the semester Ken, Justin, Alton and I all helped make the newspaper couch that is in our room.  Originally it was going to be three times as large, but after making a third of it we never found time to build the rest.

 So I took a chuck of the couch out.

And made a college using articles and headlines that related to us or described us. 


Step eight: Final touches
The final step was to glue the two parts together and then mount it onto black form core. 

There is a lot of hidden symbolism in this peice and it took over 20 hours to create.  I am really proud of this.  Hopefully my professor likes it.  Let me know what you think in the comments below.

-Aaron

2D Design final project preview

me as madman finished

Christmas Colors!

Color seemed necessary to illustrate the point of this comic. 

Some of you may of noticed, but the updates have been lacking this past week.  I originally had a buffer of 10 or so comics just in case a busy week like this happened.  Unfortunately, I spent a week working on a mini-comic that didn't work out and lost the buffer.  I don't want to bore you all with my excuses, but this past week I have had to worry about a Physical Science 100 vocab quiz, exam, 2D Design projects, homework, my dish room job and trying to get enough sleep.  

However, I have some cool projects in the works:  A mini-comic that, depending on popularly, I would like to get printed and have up for sell (probably cost $5-$10).  A spirit pokemon comic. A guest strip for one of my favorite webcomics (hopefully he will post it!)  And finally, I am working on a story for a long format adventure/horror/sci-fi comic which would include zombies! And who doesn't like zombies?

artistic note: The art style and craftsmanship of My Skinny Jeans are Red continues to annoy me!  This comic really is not a reflection of my art. 

--Aaron

Your grandma's is nothin' compared to this

The downside to drawing these comics daily is that I can only spend up to half an hour on them, and that includes drawing out the panels.  This is really frustrating when you want to spend time designing the characters.  This isn't what my professor looks like at all, just take a look at this picture--> click me!  I have thought about going to a MWF schedule, that way I could spend more time on the comics and the overall feel, but I know a lot of you like the daily schedule.  Alas, I don't know, this comic really bugs me and my class and work schedule makes it hard to find time to draw.  The concept for today's strip is good, and the quote from my teacher makes a good comic, but the art on this. . .ugh.